Cheltenham Festival 2016 [Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert]

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0120160816This week's lunchtime concerts come from Cheltenham Music Festival, recorded in the elegant Regency setting of the Pittville Pump Room. In today's highlights, French specialists Pascal Rog退 and Ami Rog退 mark the 150th anniversary of Erik Satie with his colourful ballet for piano duet, Parade; Christian Lindberg gives the world premiere of his latest work for trombone; and the Doric String Quartet immerse themselves in one of their favourite works, Bartok's folk-influenced Fourth Quartet.

Presented by Fiona Talkington.

Pascal Rog退 and Ami Rog退, piano 4 hands

Black Hawk Eagle

Christian Lindberg, trombone

Roland P怀ntinen, piano

B退la Bartok

String Quartet No 4

Doric String Quartet:

Alex Redington, violin

Jonathan Stone, violin

H退l耀ne Cl退ment, viola

John Myerscough, cello

Producer Johannah Smith.

Music by Satie, Bartok and Christian Lindberg from the 2016 Cheltenham Music Festival.

01Brahms And Weber From The 2016 Cheltenham Music Festival2016071920200630 (R3)Another chance to hear our week of Lunchtime Concerts from the Cheltenham Music Festival in 2016, performed by BBC New Generation Artists the Quatuor Van Kuijk, clarinettist Annelien van Wauwe, violinist Esther Yoo and cellist Narek Hakhnazaryan with the pianist Zhang Zuo. Today's concert features the Cello Sonata in F by Brahms, along with his Hungarian Rhapsody No 6, and also Weber's Clarinet Quintet in B flat, all performed in the historic setting of the Pittville Pump Room.

Johannes Brahms

Cello Sonata No 2 in F major, Op 99

Narek Hakhnazaryan, cello

Zhang Zuo, piano

Esther Yoo, violin

Carl Maria von Weber

Clarinet Quintet in B flat major, J182 Op 34

Annelien van Wauwe, clarinet

Quatuor Van Kuijk:

Nicholas van Kuijk, violin

Sylvain Favre-Bulle, violin

Gr退goire Vecchioni, viola

Fran瀀ois Robin, cello

Produced by Luke Whitlock

0220160817This week's lunchtime concerts come from Cheltenham Music Festival. Recorded in the elegant Regency setting of the Pittville Pump Room, today's highlights include one of Satie's best loved pieces for solo piano. His partner in life and music, Ami, joins Pascal Rog退 in a performance for piano duet of Ravel's Mother Goose, fairytale settings written for his close friend's children. And Haydn spreads his compositional wings in the second of his Opus 64 quartets, played here by the Doric String Quartet.

Presented by Fiona Talkington.

Erik Satie

Gymnop退die No 1

Pascal Rog退, piano

Morceaux en forme de poire

Pascal Rog退 and Ami Rog退, piano 4 hands

Maurice Ravel

Ma M耀re l'Oye

Joseph Haydn

String Quartet in B minor, Op 64 No 2

Doric String Quartet:

Alex Redington, violin

Jonathan Stone, violin

H退l耀ne Cl退ment, viola

John Myerscough, cello.

Satie, Ravel's Mother Goose and a Haydn quartet from the 2016 Cheltenham Music Festival.

02Halvorsen, Mozart And Ravel From The 2016 Cheltenham Music Festival2016072020200701 (R3)Another chance to hear our Lunchtime Concert series from the Cheltenham Music Festival in 2016, performed by BBC New Generation Artists the Quatuor Van Kuijk, along with the violinist Esther Yoo and cellist Narek Hakhnazaryan. Today's concert features Halvorsen's Passacaglia with Variations in G minor after Handel, along with the Divertimento in D by Mozart, and Ravel's String Quartet in F major, all performed in the historic setting of the Pittville Pump Room.

Johan Halvorsen

Esther Yoo, violin

Narek Hakhnazaryan, cello

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Divertimento in D K136

Quatuor Van Kuijk:

Nicholas van Kuijk, violin

Sylvain Favre-Bulle, violin

Gr退goire Vecchioni, viola

Fran瀀ois Robin, cello

Maurice Ravel

Produced by Luke Whitlock.

0320160818This week's lunchtime concerts come from Cheltenham Music Festival, recorded in the elegant Regency setting of the Pittville Pump Room. In today's highlights, trombonist Christian Lindberg plays a virtuosic arrangement of three movements from Stravinsky's Firebird and the Doric String Quartet perform the second of Beethoven's Opus 59 'Razumovsky' quartets, thought to have been inspired in part by Beethoven gazing up at the stars, 'contemplating the harmony of the spheres'.

Presented by Fiona Talkington.

Igor Stravinsky, arr. Lindberg and P怀ntinen

Three Movements from The Firebird

Christian Lindberg, trombone

Roland P怀ntinen, piano

Ludwig van Beethoven

String Quartet in E minor, Op.59 No.2 (Razumovsky)

Doric String Quartet:

Alex Redington, violin

Jonathan Stone, violin

H退l耀ne Cl退ment, viola

John Myerscough, cello.

Stravinsky's The Firebird and a Beethoven quartet from the 2016 Cheltenham Music Festival.

03Liszt And Schubert From The 2016 Cheltenham Music Festival2016072120200702 (R3)Another chance to hear our Lunchtime Concert series from Cheltenham Music Festival 2016, performed by BBC New Generation Artists the Armida Quartet, along with the pianist Zhang Zou. Today's concert features Franz Liszt's Rhapsodie espagnole, and his arrangement of Schubert's Liebesbotschaft, along with Schubert's Rosamunde String Quartet in A minor, all performed in the historic setting of the Pittville Pump Room.

Franz Schubert Arr. Franz Liszt

Zhang Zuo, piano

Rhapsodie espagnole S 254

String Quartet in A minor, D804 (Rosamunde)

Armida Quartet:

Martin Funda, violin

Johanna Staemmler, violin

Teresa Schwamm, viola

Peter-Philipp Staemmler, cello

Produced by Luke Whitlock

0420160819This week's lunchtime concerts come from Cheltenham Music Festival, recorded in the elegant Regency setting of the Pittville Pump Room. In today's highlights, French specialists, pianists Pascal Rog退 and Ami Rog退, pay homage to three members of 'Les Six', Germaine Tailleferre, Arthur Honegger and Francis Poulenc; and trombonist Christian Lindberg returns with his regular partner, pianist Roland P怀ntinen, to perform their own arrangement of Mussorgsky's colourful tour around an imagined art gallery, which ends triumphantly with the bells ringing out at The Great Gate of Kiev.

Presented by Fiona Talkington.

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Pascal Rog退 and Ami Rog退, piano 4 hands

Pastorale d'退t退

Sonata for Piano Duet

Modest Mussorgsky, arr. Lindberg and P怀ntinen

Pictures at an Exhibition

Christian Lindberg, trombone

Roland P怀ntinen, piano

Producer Johannah Smith.

Tailleferre, Poulenc and Mussorgsky's Pictures from the 2016 Cheltenham Music Festival.

04Stravinsky, Mendelssohn And Schwertsik From The 2016 Cheltenham Music Festival2016072220200703 (R3)Another chance to hear our week of Lunchtime Concerts from the Cheltenham Music Festival in 2016, performed by BBC New Generation Artists the Quatuor Van Kuijk and the Armida Quartet, along with the clarinettist Annelien van Wauwe, and the cellist Narek Hakhnazaryan. Today's concert features Stravinsky's Three Pieces for solo clarinet, the premiere of Eine Windrose für Mauricio for solo cello by Kurt Schwertsik, along with Mendelssohn's Octet in E flat major, all performed in the historic setting of the Pittville Pump Room.

Igor Stravinsky

Three Pieces for Clarinet Solo

Annelien van Wauwe, clarinet

Eine Windrose für Mauricio, Op 115 (premiere)

Narek Hakhnazaryan, cello

Felix Mendelssohn

Octet in E flat major, Op 20

Quatuor Van Kuijk:

Nicholas van Kuijk, violin

Sylvain Favre-Bulle, violin

Gr退goire Vecchioni, viola

Fran瀀ois Robin, cello

Armida Quartet:

Martin Funda, violin

Johanna Staemmler, violin

Teresa Schwamm, viola

Peter-Philipp Staemmler, cello

Produced by Luke Whitlock