Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

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Live and recorded concerts from all over the UK. Includes the Wigmore chamber music series

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

Chopin and his Europe (3/4)

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

Festival chamber music including works by Mozart, Rachmaninov and Chopin.

Chopin and his Europe: the Belcea Quartet perform Mozart's String Quartet No 23, and Yulianna Avdeeva plays Rachmaninov's Second Piano Sonata and Chopin's Nocturne No 20.

Chopin and his Europe: Sarah Walker continues her series this week exploring performances recorded last summer at Poland's month-long music festival. On the bill today Rachmaninov's emotionally intense Piano Sonata no. 2, begun in Rome in 1913 and completed back in Russia the following year. Yulianna Avdeeva plays the revised version, Rachmaninov having declared that: "Even in this Sonata so many voices are moving simultaneously, and it is so long. Chopin’s Sonata lasts nineteen minutes and all has been said.”  Also today, the Belcea Quartet play one of Mozart's 'Prussian' Quartets. 

Mozart: String Quartet No. 23 in F, K. 590
Belcea Quartet

Rachmaninov: Piano Sonata No. 2 in B flat minor, op. 36
Yulianna Avdeeva (piano)

Chopin: Nocturne No. 20 in C sharp minor, op. posth.
Yulianna Avdeeva (piano)

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