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Live and recorded concerts from all over the United Kingdom. Also includes the flagship Wigmore chamber music series.

Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Cheltenham Festival 2018: Mozart and Martinu

Music: Classical

Cheltenham Music Festival 2018

Mozart and Martinu

Cheltenham Festival 2018

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Sarah Walker introduces Mozart and Martinů from the Pittville Pump Room in Cheltenham.

Sarah Walker introduces the Haffner Ensemble performing Mozart and Steven Isserlis in Martinů’s Cello Sonata No 1 at the Pittville Pump Room in Cheltenham.

Sarah Walker introduces highlights from the 74th Cheltenham Music Festival and performances given in the Georgian splendour of the Pittville Pump Room. Today, Nicholas Daniel’s Haffner Ensemble are joined by pianist Charles Owen to perform music that Mozart described as ‘the best work I have ever composed’.   Steven Isserlis and Connie Shih present Martinů’s tumultuous Cello Sonata No.1, written during the Nazi occupation of his homeland, Czechoslovakia.

Mozart: Quintet for Piano and Winds, K452
The Haffner Ensemble, directed by Nicholas Daniel
Charles Owen, piano

Kapralova: Ritournelle
Steven Isserlis, cello
Connie Shih, piano

Martinů: Cello Sonata No.1
Steven Isserlis, cello
Connie Shih, piano

Debussy: Syrinx 
Tom Hancox, flute

Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Cheltenham Festival 2018

Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

Sarah Walker presents performances given at the 2018 Cheltenham Music Festival.

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