Czech Chamber Music [Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert]

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Foerster, Bernstein, Chopin, Ades20190228The Belfiato Wind Quintet begin today's Lunchtime Concert with a piece by JB Foerster written in 1909, and the programme ends with Kirill Gerstein performing 3 mazurkas written by Thomas Ades in 2009. In between, the Puella Trio perform an early work by Leonard Bernstein, from his Harvard days, and we have 3 Chopin waltzes fresh from the Paris Salons of the 1820's.

Sarah Walker presents

Josef Bohuslav Foerster

Wind Quintet in D, Op 95

Belfiato Quintet

Trio for Violin, Cello and Piano

Fryderyk Chopin

Three waltzes

Thomas Ad耀s

Three Mazurkas

Kirill Gerstein (piano)

Czech chamber music presented by Sarah Walker.

Janacek, Bach, Martinu, Liebermann20190227In today's Lunchtime visit to Prague's Rudolfinum Hall, an all female Piano Trio and the Quartet in residence of the Czech Chamber Music Society, as well as another performance from the Benfiato Wind Quintet, and special guest Russian born pianist Kirill Gerstein.

Presented by Sarah Walker.

Leoš Janက?ek

Mlကd퀀

Belfiato Quintet

Bach

Four Duets, BWV 802-805

Kirill Gerstein (piano)

Bohuslav Martin?

String Quartet No 3,

The Bennewitz Quartet:

Lowell Liebermann

Piano Trio No. 1, Op 32

Puella Trio

Czech chamber music presented by Sarah Walker.

Pavel Haas, Dvorak20190301The Belfiato begin the final Lunchtime Concert of the week with the composer that gave his name to one of the best of the current crop of String Quartets - Pavel Haas.

He was a Czech composer of the early twentieth century, who was murdered at Auschwitz in 1944. The Wind Quintet dates from 1929, when the composer was just finding his voice.

Dvorak's final Quartet was written when the composer was working in New York, but not published until he was back home in Bohemia, Are those whimsical tunes longing for home or picked up on his travels?

Presented by Sarah Walker.

Wind Quintet, Op 10

The Belfiato Quintet :

String Quartet No. 14 in A flat, Op 105

Pavel Haas Quartet

Czech chamber music presented by Sarah Walker.

Reicha, Smetana, Dvorak20190226The Czech Chamber Music Society is one of the oldest and most renowned musical institutions in the Czech Republic. It was founded to promote the concert activities of the then young Bohemian Quartet and its opening concert took place at the Rudolfinum in Prague on October 10, 1894.

Fast forward 120 years to 2018 and both the Czech Chamber Music Society and their promotion of young Czech musicians continues. In the Lunchtime Concert this week we will hear from the latest groups, including today the Belfiato Wind Quintet, who will appear each day for the rest of this week.

And one of the current outstanding String Quartets, and former BBC Nw Generation Artists, the Pavel Haas Quartet, who appear in Friday's programme performing Dvorak, and today playing Smetana's 1st String Quartet, whose final movement breaks down imtating the tinnitus that plagued Smetana as he grew older.

Presented by Sarah Walker.

Reicha

Wind Quintet in E minor, Op 88, No 1

The Belfiato Quintet

String Quartet No. 1 in E minor, 'From my Life

Czech chamber music presented by Sarah Walker.