Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

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Live and recorded concerts from all over the UK. Includes the Wigmore chamber music series

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Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: New Generation Artist Gallery

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Pianist Louis Schwizgebel plays Haydn, Chopin and Liszt.

Pianist Louis Schwizgebel plays music by Haydn, Chopin and Liszt at Wigmore Hall, London.

The first in a series of four Sunday lunchtime recitals from the archive, featuring former Radio 3 New Generation Artists at Wigmore Hall.

Born in Geneva in 1987, Swiss-Chinese pianist Louis Schwizgebel has been described as 'profoundly gifted', won the Geneva International Music Competition at the age of seventeen and in 2012 won 2nd prize at the Leeds International Piano Competition.

Today's programme is a celebration of pianistic elegance, expression and virtuosity.

Haydn : Piano Sonata in E flat, HXVI:49
Chopin : Ballade No 3 in A flat, Op 47; Étude in C sharp minor, Op 25 No 7; Waltz in C sharp minor, Op 64 No 2; Fantaisie-impromptu in C sharp minor, Op 66
Liszt : Consolation No 3 in D flat, S172; Hungarian Rhapsody No 6 in D flat, S244

Louis Schwizgebel (piano)

First broadcast on 23 February 2015.

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