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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: Scotland Week (2/4)

Scotland Week (2/4)

BBC Radio 3 - Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert, Scotland Week (2/4)

Alasdair Beatson and friends perform piano trios by Haydn, Helen Grime and Fauré.

Alasdair Beatson, Maria Włoszczowska and Philip Higham perform piano trios by Joseph Haydn, Helen Grime and Gabriel Fauré.

Live from Perth Concert Hall, Pianist Alasdair Beatson teams up with SCO players and leading chamber musicians Maria Włoszczowska (violin) and Philip Higham (cello) for a programme which explores subtlety and texture. Gabriel Fauré composed his Piano Trio near the end of his life and It shows a style quite distinct from the worlds of Debussy or Ravel. relying less on flamboyance and fantasy and more on subtle modal harmonies and using the middle ranges of the piano. Helen Grime's 'Three Whistler Miniatures' are inspired by three portraits by American artist James McNeill Whistler with the typically enigmatic titles The Little Note in Yellow and Gold, Lapis Lazuli and The Violet Note. Helen Grime found herself inspired by the texture of these chalk and pastel miniatures and explains that, 'although the music does not relate directly to the pictures, I was taken by the subtly graduated palate and intimate atmosphere suggested by each of them'. The musicians have also chosen one of Haydn's many piano trios which, although bright in its opening remarks has, according to Alasdair, some unusual and introspective qualities that make it a perfect accompaniment to the Fauré. 

Haydn - Piano Trio in D, Hob XV:24 
Helen Grime - Three Whistler Miniatures, 2011 
Fauré - Piano Trio in D minor, op 120 


Alasdair Beatson, piano
Maria Włoszczowska , violin
Philip Higham, cello

Presented by Ian Skelly
Produced by Lindsay Pell

Photo credit: Kaupo Kikkas

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