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Radio 3 in Concert: International Musicians Seminar, Prussia Cove, 50th Anniversary

International Musicians Seminar, Prussia Cove, 50th Anniversary

BBC Radio 3 - Radio 3 in Concert, International Musicians Seminar, Prussia Cove, 50th Anniversary

Dohnányi, Adès and Schubert performed by world-famous artists alongside rising stars.

The world premiere of Növények by Thomas Adès is performed alongside quintets by Dohnányi and Schubert by world-famous artists and rising stars of the seminars at Prussia Cove.

IMS Prussia Cove brings emerging artists and acclaimed performers from across the world to make music together in a remote part of Cornwall. This evening’s celebratory anniversary concert will feature the world premières of works by Thomas Adès and György Kurtág, specially commissioned for the occasion. Artistic Director Steven Isserlis will perform, alongside young musicians from the seminars.

Recorded at Wigmore Hall in London, presented by Petroc Trelawny.

Dohnányi: Piano Quintet No. 1 in C minor Op. 1
Anthony Marwood (violin)
Susanne Schäffer (violin)
Hélène Clement (viola)
Christoph Richter (cello)
Dénes Várjon (piano)

Thomas Adès: Növények for mezzo-soprano and piano sextet (world première)*
Katalin Károlyi (mezzo-soprano)
Ruisi Quartet
Graham Mitchell (double bass)
Joseph Havlat (piano)

* a perusal score with texts and translations can be found here https://www.yumpu.com/xx/document/view/67396476/ades-novenyek

c.8.20pm Interval Music
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 25 in C major, K503 – 1st mvt Allegro maestoso
András Schiff, piano
Camerata Salzburg
Sandor Végh, conductor
Recorded in December 1988 in the Mozarteum, Grosser Saal, Salzburg

c.8.40pm
György Kurtág: Circumdederunt… in memoriam Rita Wagner (world première)
Steven Isserlis (cello)

Schubert: String Quintet in C D956
Jonian Ilias Kadesha (violin)
Irène Duval (violin)
Timothy Ridout (viola)
Steven Isserlis (cello)
Vashti Hunter (cello)

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