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Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Big Chamber Weekend: Introducing Mark Simpson and Friends

Introducing Mark Simpson and Friends

Big Chamber Weekend

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Mark Simpson and friends perform Beethoven, Brahms and Simpson.

The Radio 3 Big Chamber Weekend from Saffron Hall presents Mark Simpson and friends, today performing clarinet trios by Beethoven and Brahms, and one of Simpson's own works.

Tom McKinney presents the Radio 3 Big Chamber Weekend recorded at Saffron Hall in Essex, which brings the composer and virtuoso clarinettist Mark Simpson together with his friends in some of the music he loves best, played alongside his own chamber-music works.  Today, he plays Beethoven and Brahms trios with cellist Leonard Elschenbroich and pianist Richard Uttley, plus one of his own works for clarinet and piano and Richard Uttley plays another, for piano solo.

Mark Simpson is a former BBC Young Musician of the Year and Radio 3 New Generation Artist.

Presented by Tom McKinney.

BEETHOVEN 		
Trio in B flat, Op.11				
Mark Simpson (clarinet)
Leonard Elschenbroich (cello)
Richard Uttley (piano)

SIMPSON		
Lov(escape)
Mark Simpson (clarinet)					
Richard Uttley (piano)

SIMPSON		
Barkham Fantasy				
Richard Uttley (piano)

BRAHMS		
Trio in A minor Op.114 for clarinet or viola, cello and piano 				
Mark Simpson (clarinet)
Leonard Elschenbroich (cello)
Richard Uttley (piano)


Elizabeth Arno (producer)

Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Big Chamber Weekend

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Tom McKinney presents the Radio 3 Big Chamber Weekend recorded at Saffron Hall in Essex

Tom McKinney presents the Radio 3 Big Chamber Weekend recorded at Saffron Hall in Essex.

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