Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

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Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Chopin, the Poet of the Piano, Part 3

Chopin, the Poet of the Piano, Part 1

Chopin, the Poet of the Piano, Part 3

BBC Radio 3 - Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert, Chopin, the Poet of the Piano, Part 3

Welsh pianist Llŷr Williams and cellist Natalie Clein play Chopin's works for cello.

Welsh pianist Llŷr Williams is joined by cellist Natalie Clein to play Chopin's works for cello at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama in Cardiff. Sarah Walker presents.

Sarah Walker introduces the third recital in a series of concerts featuring highlights from Welsh pianist Llŷr Williams' major exploration of Chopin's music. Recorded at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama in Cardiff in 2021, cellist Natalie Clein joins Llŷr to play two contrasting works by Chopin. The Polonaise brillante was written when Chopin was a teenager, with the more substantial Sonata in G minor  begun some 16 years later, in 1845, its protracted composition relating at least in part to his poor health. He wrote the cello sonata for a talented cellist friend of his, August-Joseph Franchomme, and they performed it together in 1848. It's a work with plenty of light and shade, with a contemporary likening it to "a wild forest lit up by occasional shafts of sunlight". 

Nocturne in B major, Op 32 no 1
Llŷr Williams, piano 

Polonaise brillante, Op 3 for cello and piano
Natalie Clein, cello 
Llŷr Williams, piano 

Sonata in G minor, Op 65 for cello and piano   
Natalie Clein, cello 
Llŷr Williams, piano


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