Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

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Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Chopin and his Europe (2/4)

Chopin and his Europe (2/4)

BBC Radio 3 - Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert, Chopin and his Europe (2/4)

Festival chamber music including works by Szymanowski, Weinberg and Berlioz.

Chopin and his Europe: the Belcea Quartet play Szymanowski, Yulianna Avdeeva plays Mieczysław Weinberg's Fourth Piano Sonata, and Alexander Melnikov plays Berlioz.

Chopin and his Europe: Sarah Walker this week introduces performances recorded last summer at Poland's month-long music festival. On the bill today are two seldom-heard works, Szymanowski's First Quartet of 1917 in which the third movement has parts written in a different key signature for each of the players and a piano sonata by Polish-born Mieczysław Weinberg, notable for its passage of haunting lyricism.     

Mieczysław Weinberg: Piano Sonata No. 4, op. 56
Yulianna Avdeeva (piano)

Szymanowski: String Quartet No. 1 in C major, op. 37
Belcea Quartet

Berlioz arr. Liszt:  Scène aux champs from Symphonie Fantastique, S. 470
Alexander Melnikov (Erard piano 1847)

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