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Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: War's Embers: 13/11/2018

13/11/2018

War's Embers

BBC Radio 3 - Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert, War's Embers, 13/11/2018

The Nash Ensemble mark 100 years since the 1918 Armistice with music by Ireland and Elgar.

Members of the Nash Ensemble perform Ireland's Piano Trio No 2 and Elgar's Piano Quintet in A minor, the first of 4 concerts in the War's Embers series from LSO St Luke's, London.

Fiona Talkington presents the first of 4 concerts from LSO St Luke's in London given by the Nash Ensemble and Ashley Wass to commemorate the centenary of the Armistice.  Today, members of the Nash Ensemble perform Ireland's heartbreakingly beautiful Piano Trio No.2 written in 1917 and Elgar's Piano Quintet. in A minor, written in his Sussex retreat at the end of the First World War.

Fiona Talkignton (presenter)

IRELAND
Piano Trio No.2
Stephanie Gonley (violin)
Adrian Brendel (cello)
Ian Brown (piano)

ELGAR
Piano Quintet in A minor
Stephanie Gonley (violin)
Michael Gurevich (violin) 
David Adams (viola)
Adrian Brendel (cello)
Ian Brown (piano)

Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: War's Embers

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The Nash Ensemble and Ashley Wass mark 100 years since the Armistice of 1918.

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