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Live and recorded concerts from all over the UK. Includes the Wigmore chamber music series

Live and recorded concerts from all over the United Kingdom. Also includes the flagship Wigmore chamber music series.

Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Wigmore Hall Mondays: Leila Josefowicz and John Novacek

Wigmore Hall Mondays: Leila Josefowicz and John Novacek

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Violinist Leila Josefowicz plays music spanning the last 12 decades from Mahler to Knussen

From Wigmore Hall, violinist Leila Josefowicz & pianist John Novacek play music spanning the last 12 decades from Mahler to Knussen plus Sibelius, Prokofiev & Bernd Zimmermann

From Wigmore Hall, London, presented by Sara Mohr-Pietsch. Keen advocates of 20th-century and contemporary music, violinist Leila Josefowicz and pianist John Novacek play music spanning the last 12 decades including arrangements of well-known works by Prokofiev and Mahler plus one of the last compositions by British-born Oliver Knussen, and Bernd Alois Zimmermann’s powerfully expressive sonata.

Sibelius arr. Friedrich Hermann: Valse triste Op. 44 No. 1
Prokofiev: Violin Sonata No. 1 in F minor Op. 80 (2nd movement, Allegro brusco)
Knussen: Reflection for violin and piano
Mahler arr. Otto Wittenbecher: Adagietto from the Fifth Symphony
Bernd Alois Zimmermann: Sonata for violin and piano

Leila Josefowicz, violin
John Novacek, piano

Recorded 21 January 2019

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