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Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Big Chamber Weekend: Homages from Schumann to Janacek

Sean Shibe, Mark Simpson, Trish Clowes

Homages from Schumann to Janacek

Big Chamber Weekend

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Mark Simpson and friends perform Schumann, Kurtag, Janacek and Simpson.

Today in the Radio 3 Big Chamber Weekend from Saffron Hall, Mark Simpson presents homages by Kurtag and himself, plus the Navarra String Quartet play Janacek's 'Kreutzer' Sonata.

Tom McKinney presents the Radio 3 Big Chamber Weekend recorded at Saffron Hall in Essex, which brings the composer and virtuoso clarinettist Mark Simpson together with his friends in some of the music he loves best, played alongside his own chamber-music works. Today, he presents a sequence of homages, starting with Schumann's much-loved Märchenerzälungen, Kurtag's Homage to Schumann and Simpson's own Homage to Kurtag.  The Navarra String Quartet play Janacek's own homage to the Kreutzer Sonata, the nickname for the String Quartet No.1.

Mark Simpson is a former BBC Young Musician of the Year and Radio 3 New Generation Artist.

Presented by Tom McKinney.

SCHUMANN		
Märchenerzälungen (Fairy Tales)				
Mark Simpson (clarinet)
Adam Newman (viola)
Richard Uttley (piano)

KURTAG		
Homage to Schumann				
Mark Simpson (clarinet)
Adam Newman (viola)
Richard Uttley (piano)

SIMPSON		
Homage to Kurtag				
Mark Simpson (clarinet)
Adam Newman (viola)
Richard Uttley (piano)

JANACEK		
String Quartet No. 1 'The Kreutzer Sonata'        
Navarra String Quartet


Elizabeth Arno (producer)

Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Big Chamber Weekend

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Tom McKinney presents the Radio 3 Big Chamber Weekend recorded at Saffron Hall in Essex

Tom McKinney presents the Radio 3 Big Chamber Weekend recorded at Saffron Hall in Essex.

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