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Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: A Tower and a Garden: Shaw and Chausson

A tower and a garden: Shaw and Chausson

A Tower and a Garden: Shaw and Chausson

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Caroline Shaw and Chausson played by the Calidore Quartet, Jennifer Pike and Zee Zee.

The Calidore String Quartet play Caroline Shaw and Chausson's Concert for Piano, Violin and String Quartet with pianist Zee Zee and violinist Jennifer Pike at St Marys' Tetbury.

The Calidore String Quartet conclude their Radio 3 Big Chamber Weekend series of recitals at St Marys', Tetbury, with a work by the Pulitzer Prize winning American, Caroline Shaw. They're then joined by two more former Radio 3 New Generation Artists, pianist Zee Zee and violinist Jennifer Pike, in a performance of Ernest Chausson's Concert for Piano, Violin and String Quartet. The concert was held in association with Tetbury Music Festival and first broadcast in 2019.  

Introduced by Fiona Talkington 

Caroline Shaw: First Essay "Nimrod" 
Ernest Chausson: Concert for piano, violin and string quartet, Op.21 

The Calidore String Quartet present the first panel of a triptych by the young American composer Caroline Shaw. Written especially for the "wonderfully thoughtful" quartet, the genesis of Shaw's First Essay, "Nimrod" comes from the story of the biblical figure who constructed the giant tower of Babel, a tower tall enough to reach heaven, but which resulted in a chaos of languages. That's followed by a work from one of the late nineteenth century's great romantics, Ernest Chausson. His demanding and unusually scored Concert for Piano, Violin and String Quartet, is perhaps best known through its second movement, a Sicilienne, which was aptly described by a contemporary as being like “the gardens where bloom the charming fancies of a Gabriel Fauré.”

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