Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

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Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Chamber music from Glasgow's RSNO Centre (2/4)

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Chamber music from Glasgow's RSNO Centre (2/4)

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Cellist Aleksei Kiseliov joins pianist Alasdair Beatson to perform Beethoven and Strauss.

Principal cellist of the RSNO, Aleksei Kiseliov, joins renowned pianist Alasdair Beatson to perform works by Beethoven, Strauss and Dvorak.

Kate Molleson presents this recital of cello and piano chamber music by principal cellist of the RSNO Aleksei Kiseliov and renowned pianist Alasdair Beatson at the RSNO Centre in Glasgow.  Their concert opens with Beethoven’s Sonata in D major, Op 102, written in 1815 and inspired by his cellist friend Josef Linke. They are perhaps the first of Beethoven’s ‘late’ period style and explore new possibilities for the cello, as well as using a fugue for the first time as the basis of a movement – something Beethoven continued to explore in his music.  In contrast, Strauss's Cello sonata in F was written when he was a teenager and it was only after several revisions that the piece became the elegant and Romantic work we recognise today.  Dvorak’s Silent Woods closes this recital, an arrangement of a movement from his larger work 'From the Bohemian Forest'.  The Czech title ‘Klid’ translates as ‘Tranquility’.

Beethoven: Cello Sonata in D major, Op. 102 No. 2
R. Strauss: Cello Sonata in F major, Op. 6 
Dvorák: Silent Woods, for Cello and piano

Aleksei Kiseliov – cello
Alasdair Beatson – piano



Presenter - Kate Molleson 
Producer – Laura Metcalfe

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