Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

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

Live and recorded concerts from all over the United Kingdom. Also includes the flagship Wigmore chamber music series.

Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Highlights from the Granada Festival (1/4)

Highlights from the Granada Festival (1/4)

BBC Radio 3 - Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert, Highlights from the Granada Festival (1/4)

Mendelssohn, Paisiello, Brahms and Schumann from this year's Granada Festival.

From this year’s Granada Festival: the Casals Quartet play Mendelssohn, music by Paisiello for soprano and guitar, and Schumann’s Fantasy Pieces played by Tabea Zimmermann.

Sarah Walker presents highlights from this year’s Granada Festival including Mendelssohn’s exuberant D major Quartet played by the Casals Quartet, a Spanish group. Then Alaskan mezzo Vivica Genaux sings variations by the Italian opera composer Paisiello, and the programme concludes with Schumann’s well-known Fantasiestücke, op. 73 played on the viola by Tabea Zimmermann.


Felix Mendelssohn: String Quartet No. 3 in D, op. 44/1	 
Casals Quartet

Giovanni Paisiello: Variations on Nel coranr più non mi sento, duet from ´La molinara´
Vivica Genaux, mezzo-soprano
Giangiacomo Pinardi, guitar

Robert Schumann: Fantasiestücke, op. 73    
Tabea Zimmermann, viola
Javier Perianes, piano

Brahms:  2 songs from Die schöne Magelone (1861) Op. 33  
Andrè Schuen, baritone
Daniel Heide, piano

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