Llyr Williams [Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert]

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01Llyr Williams And Calefax20160126The first in a series of four concerts from Wales features Welsh pianist Llyr Williams with Beethoven's calling card for the Eroica symphony, the so-called Funeral march sonata, and Dutch ensemble Calefax play the premiere of a new work for reed quintet by the young composer Christopher Bowman and dance music by Jean-Philippe Rameau in the atmospheric setting of Swansea National Waterfront Museum.

Recorded at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama and Swansea International Festival.

Beethoven: Piano Sonata no.12, in A flat major, Op 26

Llyr Williams, piano

Christopher Bowman: Largo for Reed Quintet

Jean-Philippe Rameau, arr Raaf Hekkema: La triomphante (Nouvelles Suites)

Calefax.

Llyr Williams performs Beethoven and Calefax play Christopher Bowman and Rameau.

02Llyr Williams And Escher Quartet20160127Continuing this week's series from Wales, Llyr Williams plays an early piano sonata by Beethoven, the only one for which the composer himself coined the nickname and the Escher Quartet give a performance of a rarely heard string quartet by C退sar Franck's pupil, Vincent d'Indy at the National Library of Wales in Aberystwyth.

Recorded at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama and Gregynog Festival

Beethoven: Piano Sonata No 8 in C minor, Op 13 'Path退tique

Llyr Williams, piano

d'Indy: Quartet No 3 in D flat major, Op 96

Escher Quartet.

Llyr Williams in Beethoven's Piano Sonata No 8 and Escher Quartet in d'Indy's Quartet No 3

03Llyr Williams And Calefax20160128The third in this week's series of concerts from Wales includes an early Beethoven piano sonata, part of Welsh pianist Llyr Williams's Beethoven cycle and a new arrangement of Ravel's Mother Goose suite, inspired by Perrault's fairy tales and written for his friends the Godebski's children, played by reed quintet Calefax at the National Waterfront Museum in Swansea.

Recorded at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama and Swansea International Festival.

Beethoven: Piano Sonata No 20, in G major, Op 49 No 2

Llyr Williams, piano

Grieg, arr Raaf Hekkema: Holberg Suite, Op 40

Maurice Ravel, arr Robert Zuidam: Ma M耀re l'Oye

Calefax.

With Llyr Williams playing Beethoven's Piano Sonata No 20, plus Calefax in Grieg and Ravel

04Llyr Williams And Escher Quartet20160129The final concert in this series from Wales includes Llyr Williams with a set of variations written in 1802 that Beethoven returned to in his Eroica Symphony, and Faur退's contemplative late string quartet, completed the year before his death in 1924, performed by the Escher Quartet.

Recorded at Swansea International Festival, the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama and Gregynog Festival.

Bendusi arr Alban Wesly: Renaissance dances

Calefax

Beethoven: Variations and Fugue for Piano in E flat major, Op 35 'Eroica Variations

Llyr Williams, piano

Faur退: String Quartet in E minor, Op 121

Llyr Williams performs Beethoven's Eroica Variations. Plus music by Bendusi and Faure.