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Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Mozart in Bath and Bradford-on-Avon (1/4)

Sarah Walker

Mozart in Bath and Bradford-on-Avon (1/4)

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Sarah Walker presents highlights from Bath Mozart Minifest 2020.

Sarah Walker presents highlights from the Bath Mozart Minifest 2020, with music by Mozart and Poulenc.

Sarah Walker introduces highlights from the 2020 Bath Mozart Minifest, with concerts recorded at the Wiltshire Music Centre, Bradford-on-Avon. The concert begins with the pianist Alasdair Beatson performing the Fantasia in C minor, K475. A work that is full of contrasting ideas, Mozart was known for his improvisations in his day, and this Fantasia might well be the nearest thing on paper we have to one of his improvisations. This is followed by a leap forward to the twentieth century, and the world of the woodwind, with Poulenc’s bright and lyrical Trio for oboe, bassoon and piano. A work that was dedicated to the Spanish composer Manuel de Falla. We then head back to the classical era with Mozart’s Piano Sonata in F major, K533/K494, composed in 1786. A work that alternates between sunny episodes, and occasionally more darkly coloured moments.

Mozart: Sonata in C minor, K475
Alasdair Beatson, piano

Poulenc: Trio for oboe, bassoon and piano
Olivier Stankiewicz, oboe
Amy Harman, bassoon
Alasdair Beatson, piano

Mozart: Sonata in F major K533/K494
Melvyn Tan, fortepiano

Produced by Luke Whitlock.

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