Episodes
| Episode | First Broadcast | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| 01 | 20161108 | Highlights from three concerts recorded at this year's Lammermuir Festival in East Lothian. The Dutch violinist Lisa Fershtman teams up with Roman Rabinovich, winner of the Arthur Rubinstein Piano Master Competition in 2008, and today's broadcast features two works from that concert. The short and quixotic violin sonata in G minor was Debussy's final work and yet is full of joy and colour. Beethoven's Violin Sonata No 10 in G includes a set of variations for the fourth movement to play to the strengths of the violinist Pierre Rode, who premiered the work. In complete contrast, Andreas Borregaard performs the sparse and atmospheric Air by the Danish composer Hans Abrahamsen. Debussy: Violin Sonata in G minor Hans Abrahamsen: Air Beethoven Violin Sonata No.10 in G, Op 96 Andreas Borregaard, accordion Lisa Fershtman, violin Roman Rabinovich, piano. Music by Debussy, Abrahamsen and Beethoven from the Lammermuir Festival 2016. |
| 02 | 20161109 | Resident artists of the Lammermuir Festival in East Lothian perform Haydn String Quartet Op 76 No 1, Brahms's last violin sonata and Bent Sorensen's enigmatic work for accordion, Looking on Darkness. Navarra Quartet Bent Sorensen: Looking on Darkness Andreas Borregaard, accordion Brahms: Violin Sonata No 3 in D minor, Op 108 Lisa Fershtman, violin Roman Rabinovich, piano Presenter: Kate Molleson. Music by Haydn, Bent Sorensen and Brahms from the Lammermuir Festival 2016. |
| 03 | 20161110 | The Danish accordion virtuoso Andreas Borregaard, a resident artist at this year's Lammermuir Festival, performs one of the defining works for the classical accordion by Russian composer Sofia Gubaidulina while the Navarra Quartet take on the marathon seven-movement challenge posed by Beethoven in his late, Op 131 string quartet. Gubaidulina: De Profundis Beethoven: String Quartet in C sharp minor, Op 131 Andreas Borregaard, accordion Presenter: Kate Molleson. Highlights from the 2016 Lammermuir Festival, featuring music by Gubaidulina and Beethoven |
| 04 | 20161111 | Resident artists at this year's Lammermuir Festival, Lisa Fershtman (violin) with Roman Rabinovich (piano), Andreas Borregaard (accordion) and the Navarra Quartet, perform highlights from their concerts around the villages of East Lothian. Bartok's first Rhapsody integrates the inflections of Hungarian village music strongly into this fiery and expressive work. Dvorak's love songs transformed into short quartet movements, every one a romantic gem, contrast with the deceptive simplicity of Bach's English Suite performed here on the two-manual classical accordion. The programme is rounded off by Lisa Ferschtman, who performed the slow middle movement from Beethoven's 6th Violin Sonata as an encore to her concert. Bartok: Rhapsody No.1 Lisa Fershtman, violin Roman Rabinovich, piano Dvorak: Cypresses Nos 3, 2, 9 & 12 Bach: English Suite No.2 in A minor, BWV807 Andreas Borregaard, accordion Beethoven: Adagio from Violin Sonata No 6 in A, Op.30 No.6 Presenter: Kate Molleson. Resident artists at the Lammermuir Festival 2016 play Bartok, Dvorak, Bach and Beethoven. |