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Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: James MacMillan, a Celebration

Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: James MacMillan, a Celebration: Episode 1

Music: Classical

James MacMillan, a Celebration

Episode 1

BBC Radio 3 - Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert, James MacMillan, a Celebration, Episode 1

The Nash Ensemble performs music by Debussy, MacMillan and Shostakovich.

With the Nash Ensemble performing in Glasgow. Debussy: Violin Sonata. MacMillan: Piano Trio No 2. Shostakovich: Piano Trio No 2.

The Nash Ensemble contrast James MacMillan's capricious Piano Trio No 2 with Shostakovich's rather elegiac Piano Trio No 2, written in memory of a close friend and against the backdrop of the atrocities of the Second World War, as well Debussy's beautiful Violin Sonata.

Debussy: Violin Sonata
MacMillan: Piano Trio No 2
Shostakovich: Piano Trio No 2

Nash Ensemble
Laura Samuel, violin
Adrian Brendel, cello
Alasdair Beatson, piano.

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