Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

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Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Cotswolds Festivals (1/4)

Cotswolds Festivals (1/4)

BBC Radio 3 - Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert, Cotswolds Festivals (1/4)

Sarah Walker presents music performed by the Takács Quartet and Isata Kanneh-Mason.

Sarah Walker presents highlights from music festivals in the Cotswolds, including Haydn’s Op 77 No 2 and Chopin’s late sonata, his Opus 58.

Sarah Walker presents a selection of highlights from the 2023 Chipping Campden and Tetbury Festivals. From the Takács Quartet, we hear Haydn’s Op 77 No 2, the final quartet he completed -  a favourite of chamber players, for its masterful development of ideas, searching themes and musical jokes. To follow, pianist Isata Kanneh-Mason performs Chopin’s late sonata, his Opus 58, considered to be one of his most difficult and dynamic of his compositions. Although frantic energy permeates  the work, we find respite in a beautiful nocturne-like slow movement.

Haydn: String Quartet in F, Op 77 No 2
Takács Quartet 

Frédéric Chopin: Piano Sonata No 3 in B minor Opus 58
Isata Kanneh-Mason, piano


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