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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: Schubert, Scarlatti and Rzewski

Schubert, Scarlatti and Rzewski

BBC Radio 3 - Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert, Schubert, Scarlatti and Rzewski

Shai Wosner plays Schubert's late Piano Sonata, D958 and sonatas by Scarlatti and Rzewski.

Sarah Walker introduces piano music performed by Shai Wosner, including Schubert's late piano sonata in C minor, D958, and keyboard miniatures by Scarlatti and Frederic Rzewski.

More highlights from a series of recitals given by former Radio 3 New Generation Artist, Shai Wosner at Cedars Hall in Somerset, a part of Wells Cathedral School. In today's programme he presents Schubert's powerfully expressive sonata in C minor, D958 and a series of small-scale gems, sonatas by 18th-century composer Domenico Scarlatti and 20th-century American Frederick Rzewski.

Schubert: Sonata in C Minor D958 

Scarlatti: Sonata in D minor, K141 
Rzewski: Nano sonata no.36 (to a young man) 
Scarlatti: Sonata in D minor, K9 
Rzewski: Nano sonata no.38 (to a great guy) 
Scarlatti: Sonata in C minor K230 
Rzewski: Sonata no.12

Shai Wosner, piano

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