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

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

Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Schumann, Kurtag, Takemitsu and Beethoven

Schumann, Kurtag, Takemitsu and Beethoven

BBC Radio 3 - Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert, Schumann, Kurtag, Takemitsu and Beethoven

Shai Wosner plays chamber works by Schumann and Kurtag, and Beethoven's 'Pastoral' Sonata.

Pianist Shai Wosner's series continues with Schumann's Fairy Tales, Kurtag's Hommage to Schumann, Takemitsu and Beethoven's Sonata in D, 'Pastoral'. Introduced by Sarah Walker.

Sarah Walker introduces highlights from a series of recitals given by pianist Shai Wosner - a former Radio 3 New Generation Artist - at Cedars Hall, part of Wells Cathedral School in Somerset.  Today fellow musicians taking part in the International Musicians Seminar, Prussia Cove join him in Schumann's evocative Fairy Tales and the contemporary Hungarian composer György Kurtág's Hommage to Robert Schumann, a set of six miniatures that reflect back to Schumann. They're followed by two solo piano pieces, an atmospheric short piece by the Japanese composer Toru Takemitsu, and Beethoven's much loved sonata for piano, the Pastoral.  

Schumann: Märchenerzählungen Op. 132 
Sacha Rattle, clarinet
Clare Finnimore, viola
Shai Wosner, piano.

Kurtag: Hommage a R. Sch. Op. 15d 
Sacha Rattle, clarinet 
William Coleman, viola 
Shai Wosner, piano 

Takemitsu: Rain Tree Sketch II 
Shai Wosner, piano 

Beethoven: Sonata in D Major Op. 28 ("Pastoral") 
Shai Wosner, piano

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