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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: The Russian Soul

The Russian Soul

BBC Radio 3 - Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert, The Russian Soul

Live from Wigmore Hall, London, Barry Douglas and the Borodin Quartet play Shostakovich.

Live from Wigmore Hall, London, pianist Barry Douglas and the Borodin Quartet play works by Tchaikovsky, plus Shostakovich's powerful Piano Quintet in G minor.

Live from Wigmore Hall, London, the Borodin Quartet, one of the world's legendary ensembles, returns with an all-Russian programme. The quartet joins forces with the renowned Irish pianist, Barry Douglas in Shostakovich's powerful Piano Quintet, one of the composer's best-known chamber works. It was written for the Beethoven Quartet who gave its premiere in Moscow in 1941, and then won Shostakovich the Stalin Prize in 1941.  The Borodin Quartet also play the elegiac Andante cantabile from Tchaikovsky's 1st String Quartet, and Barry Douglas plays two movements from Tchaikovsky's cycle, The Seasons.

Presented by Andrew McGregor.

Tchaikovsky: March & October (from The Seasons) 
Barry Douglas (piano)

Tchaikovsky: Andante cantabile (from String Quartet No 1)
Borodin Quartet

Shostakovich: Piano Quintet in G minor
Borodin Quartet
Barry Douglas (piano)


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