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Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Belfast Music Society International Festival of Chamber Music 2017

Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Belfast Music Society International Festival of Chamber Music 2017: Episode 4

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Belfast Music Society International Festival of Chamber Music 2016

Episode 4

Belfast Music Society International Festival of Chamber Music 2017

BBC Radio 3 - Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert, Belfast Music Society International Festival of Chamber Music 2017, Episode 4

From the 2017 BMS Festival, music by Prokofiev and Saint-Saens.

Vikingur Olafsson (piano) performs Prokofiev's Visions Fugitives. Plus Trio Gaspard in Saint-Saens's Piano Trio No 2 in E minor, Op 92. Presented by John Toal.

John Toal presents the final programme in our series from the Belfast Music Society's International Festival of Chamber Music 2017. Opening the programme, pianist Víkingur Ólafsson performs Prokofiev's Visions Fugitives, written between 1915 and 1917, the title coming from the Russian 'Mimolyotnosti' inspired by the Russian poet Konstantin Balmont's words "In every fleeting vision I see worlds, Filled with the fickle play of rainbows." The programme finishes with the Trio Gaspard and Saint-Saëns's Piano Trio No 2 in E minor

Prokofiev: Visions Fugitives
Víkingur Ólafsson (piano)

Saint-Saëns: Piano Trio No 2 in E minor Op. 92
Trio Gaspard.

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Recitals from the Belfast Music Society's International Festival of Chamber Music 2017

John Toal presents a series of recitals from the Belfast Music Society's International Festival of Chamber Music 2017

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