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Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Chamber Music from Vilabertran, Catalonia

Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Chamber Music from Vilabertran, Catalonia: Episode 4

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Episode 4

Chamber Music from Vilabertran, Catalonia

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Music by Haydn, Shostakovich, Duparc and Sgambati from the 2016 Vilabertran Schubertiade.

Denis Kozhukhin, Wolfram Rieger (piano), Juliane Banse and Casals Quartet feature in music by Haydn, Shostakovich, Duparc and Sgambati. Presented by Fiona Talkington.

Fiona Talkington presents a final programme this week of performances from the Schubertiade held at the Monastery of Santa Maria de Vilabertran, Catalunya. Today Juliane Banse sings some of Duparc's most famous songs and the Casals Quartet take us on a journey through Shosktakovich's elegiac Eighth String Quartet of 1960, a work which ends with all four instruments on their lowest notes, with the marking 'dying.' 

Haydn: Keyboard Sonata No. 47 in B minor, Hob. XVI:32 
Denis Kozhukhin (piano)

Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 8 in C minor, Op. 110 
Casals Quartet

Duparc: Chanson triste; Le manoir de Rosemunde; Extase; L'invitation au voyage 
Juliane Banse (soprano), Wolfram Rieger (piano)

Giovanni Sgambati: Melody from 'Orfeo ed Euridice' by Gluck 
Denis Kozhukhin (piano).

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Music performed at the 2016 Vilabertran Schubertiade in Catalonia

Fiona Talkington presents music performed at the 2016 Schubertiade at the Monastery of Santa Maria de Vilabertran in Catalonia

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