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Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Death and the Maiden

Wigmore Hall Mondays: Escher String Quartet

Death and the Maiden

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From Wigmore Hall, London, the Escher String Quartet play Mendelssohn and Schubert.

From Wigmore Hall, London, the Escher String Quartet play two of Mendelssohn Pieces for String Quartet, Op 81, plus Schubert's Quartet in D minor, 'Death and the Maiden'.

From Wigmore Hall, London, former Radio 3 New Generation Artists the Escher String Quartet, from New York, play two of Mendelssohn's Pieces for String Quartet Op 81, plus Schubert's darkly powerful Quartet in D minor, D810, with its slow-movement set of variations on his own song 'Death and the Maiden'
 
Introduced by Sara Mohr-Pietsch
 
Mendelssohn: Andante sostenuto and variations, Op 81 No 1
Mendelssohn: Scherzo Op 81 No 2
Schubert: String Quartet in D minor, D810 (Death and the Maiden)
 
Escher String Quartet

Recorded at Wigmore Hall, London, on 8 February 2016

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