Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

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Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Cotswolds Festivals (2/4)

Cotswolds Festivals (2/4)

BBC Radio 3 - Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert, Cotswolds Festivals (2/4)

Sarah Walker presents music performed by the Wigmore Soloists and the Takács Quartet.

Sarah Walker presents highlights from music festivals in the Cotswolds, including Mozart’s effervescent Clarinet Quintet in A and Fanny Mendelssohn’s String Quartet in E flat.

Sarah Walker presents a selection of highlights from the 2023 Chipping Campden and Tetbury Festivals. The Wigmore Soloists open today’s lunchtime concert with a performance of Mozart’s effervescent Clarinet Quintet in A, written for his friend the clarinettist Anton Stadler, whose playing inspired him because it reminded Mozart of the human voice. It’s followed by the Takács Quartet playing Fanny Mendelssohn’s String Quartet in E flat – said to be among the earliest surviving string quartets written by a woman, a rhapsodic work full of harmonic originality.

Mozart: Clarinet Quintet in A major, K581  
Wigmore Soloists
Michael Collins, clarinet
Alexander Sitkovetsky, violin
Annabelle Meare, violin
Rachel Roberts, viola
Kristina Blauman, cello

Fanny Mendelssohn: String Quartet in E flat major
Takács  Quartet

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