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Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Schubert Plus performed by Llŷr Williams

Schubert Plus performed by Llŷr Williams

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Nicola Heywood Thomas presents a live concert of Schubert performed by Llŷr Williams

Nicola Heywood Thomas presents Schubert Plus - a series of live concerts from St David's Hall, Cardiff, today featuring pianist Llyr Williams.

Nicola Heywood Thomas presents Schubert Plus, a series of concerts broadcast live from St David's Hall, Cardiff, focusing on the music of Schubert, and performed by some of Wales's leading artists: Bryn Terfel, Catrin Finch, The Gould Trio, and Llyr Williams.  

In the first concert this week broadcast live from St David’s Hall in Cardiff, Llŷr Williams performs Schubert’s substantial Sonata in G major, D894.   Unlike many of Schubert’s works composed in his last few years, which are tinged with a sense of melancholy as the composer was faced with his own mortality, this piano sonata is tranquil in mood.  The concert closes with his iconic Ave Maria, arranged for piano by the virtuoso pianist and composer, Franz Liszt. Between the two Schubert items, Llŷr Williams performs two of Amy Woodforde-Finden’s Four Indian Love Lyrics, transcribed for solo piano by the pianist Stephen Hough.

Llŷr Williams, piano

Schubert: Sonata in G, D894
Woodforde-Finden (Trans. Hough): Kashmiri Song
Woodforde-Finden (Trans. Hough): Till I wake
Schubert (Arr. Liszt): Ave Maria, D839

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