Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

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Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Debussy and Brahms in Bath

Debussy and Brahms in Bath

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Nicola Heywood Thomas presents highlights from the Bath Mozartfest 2021.

Nicola Heywood Thomas presents highlights from the Bath Mozartfest 2021, performed in the Assembly Rooms, including music by Shostakovich, Debussy and Brahms.

Nicola Heywood Thomas introduces highlights from the Bath Mozartfest 2021, with concerts recorded at the iconic Assembly Rooms. This third lunchtime concert of highlights from the festival, begins in a Russian dance mode with two waltzes by Shostakovich, arranged by Levon Atoymyan, and performed by Adam Walker, Michael Collins and Michael McHale. Pianists Paul Lewis and Steven Osborne team up to perform Debussy’s Petite Suite, probably composed at the request from a publisher for an accessible work for skilled amateurs. The programme concludes with a large-scale four-movement String Quartet in C minor by Brahms, performed by the Belcea Quartet. Both the outer movements are vigorous and purposeful, and Brahms struggled with the quartet form, destroying nearly twenty quartet attempts before being content to allow this composition to be performed and published.

Shostakovich: Barrel-Organ Waltz from The Gadfly, Op 97
Shostakovich: Waltz from The Return of Maxim, Op 45
Adam Walker, flute
Michael Collins, clarinet
Michael McHale, piano

Debussy: Petite Suite
Paul Lewis, piano
Steven Osborne, piano

Brahms: String Quartet in C minor, Op 51 No 1
Belcea Quartet

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