Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

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Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Highlights from the Schwetzingen Festival 2022 (3/4)

Highlights from the Schwetzingen Festival 2022 (3/4)

BBC Radio 3 - Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert, Highlights from the Schwetzingen Festival 2022 (3/4)

Alexander Melnikov performs CPE Bach, plus Sharon Kam and friends play Bartok's Contrasts.

The Hagen Quartet and friends perform Mozart's String Quartet No 17 in B flat, 'Hunt', Bartok's Contrasts and CPE Bach's Fantasia in F sharp minor.

Sarah Walker presents a programme of highlights from this year's Schwetzingen Festival. Taking place in the rococo surroundings of the vast palace at Schwetzingen, the festival dates back to 1952, and takes place in the Spring of each year. 
Today's programme features the Hagen Quartet with one of Mozart's best-known quartets, along with Bartok's Contrasts with its echoes of Hungarian folksong, and an extraordinary Fantasia by C.P.E. Bach, notable for its free, improvisatory style, which Alexander Melnikov plays on the fortepiano.

Mozart: Quartet No 17 in B flat K 458 “Hunt”		
Hagen Quartet
Concert given in the Mozart Hall, Schwetzingen on 1/5/22

Bartok: Contrasts					
Sharon Kam, clarinet
Antje Weithaas, violin
Enrico Pace, piano
Concert given in the Mozart Hall, Schwetzingen on 6/5/22

C.P.E. Bach: Fantasia in F sharp minor,  Wq 67		
Alexander Melnikov, fortepiano
Concert given on 27/5/22 in the Mozart Hall, Schwetzingen

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