South West Festivals [Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert]

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0120150113The first of four programmes featuring festivals from across the south-west of England. Including Bach from the Tetbury Music Festival in the Cotswolds, and works for wind ensemble from the Music at Tresanton Festival in St. Mawes, Cornwall

Francaix: L'Heure du Berger, Sextet for winds and piano

Ariel Zuckermann, flute

Daniel Bates, oboe

Chen Halevi, clarinet

Alec Frank-Gemill, horn

Rie Koyama, bassoon

Noam Greenberg, piano

Bach: Sonata in B minor, BWV1014

Rachel Podger, violin

Kristian Bezuidenhout, harpsichord

Bach: Toccata in D minor, BWV 913

Poulenc: Sextet for Winds and Piano

Noam Greenberg, piano.

With music by Bach performed in Tetbury, plus Francaix and Poulenc from Music at Tresanton

01Carolyn Sampson, Joanna Macgregor20151229The first of four programmes featuring festivals from across the South-West of England. Today's recital was given at this year's Dartington International Summer School and Festival, and takes us on a journey through the history of song.

Dowland: Lachrimae

Monteverdi: S쀀 Dolce 耀'l Tormento

Haydn: She Never Told Her Love

Mozart: Als Luise die Briefe

Schubert: Gretchen am Spinnrade

Liszt: Die Lorelei

Bizet: Adieux de l'H䀀tesse Arabe

Faur退: Les Matelots

Debussy: Recit et Air de Lia (L'enfant prodigue)

Richard Strauss: Wiegenlied

Finzi: As I lay in the Early Sun

Copland: Going to Heaven!

Coward: Nina, from Argentina

Carolyn Sampson, soprano

Joanna MacGregor, piano.

A recital given by Carolyn Sampson (soprano) and Joanna MacGregor (piano).

01South West Festivals 1-420180109Nicola Heywood Thomas presents music from The Two Moors Festival and Dartington International Summer School and Festival.

From All Saint's Church in Dulverton, at the Two Moors Festival, pianist Barry Douglas performs a selection from Tchaikovsky's The Seasons, and Beethoven's 'Waldstein' Sonata. Recorded at the Great Hall in Dartington, we hear soprano Carolyn Sampson perform Schubert lieder, accompanied by Joseph Middleton.

Tchaikovsky: The Seasons Op 37b - May (Bright Nights); June (Barcarolle); August (Harvest)

Barry Douglas, piano

Schubert: Gretchen am Spinnrade, D118

Gretchens Bitte, D564

Der Konig in Thule, D367

Carolyn Sampson, soprano

Joseph Middleton, piano

Beethoven: Sonata No 21 in C major, Op 53 (Waldstein)

Produced by Chris Taylor for BBC Wales.

Nicola Heywood Thomas introduces music from festivals in Devon and Somerset.

0220150114Rachel Podger performs Bach in Tetbury, plus more works for wind ensemble from the Music at Tresanton Festival in St. Mawes, Cornwall

Ligeti: 6 Bagatelles for Wind Quintet

Ariel Zuckermann, flute

Daniel Bates, oboe

Chen Halevi, clarinet

Alec Frank-Gemill, horn

Rie Koyama, bassoon

Noam Greenberg, piano

Lindberg: Acequia Madre for Clarinet and Piano

Bach: Sonata for violin and harpsichord in G major, BWV 1019

Rachel Podger, violin

Kristian Bezuidenhout, harpsichord

Poulenc: Trio for Oboe, Bassoon and Piano

Noam Greenberg, piano.

With Bach performed in Tetbury, plus Ligeti, Lindberg and Poulenc from Music at Tresanton.

02International Musicians Seminar Prussia Cove20151230We catch up with the Autumn tour of the International Musicians Seminar Prussia Cove, and hear them perform Mozart and Brahms at St. Georges, Bristol.

Mozart: Piano Trio in B flat major, K502

Brahms: String Quintet in F major, Op 88

Erich H怀barth, violin

Jonian Ilias Kadesha, violin

Maia Cabeza, violin

Thomas Riebl, viola

Timothy Ridout, viola

Vashti Hunter, cello

Susan Tomes, piano.

IMS Prussia Cove performs Mozart and Brahms at St George's Bristol.

02South West Festivals 2-420180110Nicola Heywood Thomas presents music from The Two Moors Festival and Dartington International Summer School and Festival.

From All Saint's Church in Dulverton, at the Two Moors Festival, pianist Barry Douglas performs Britten's Notturno and Schubert's stormy Sonata in C minor. Soprano, Carolyn Sampson performs Schubert songs inspired by Goethe's heroine, Mignon, accompanied by Joseph Middleton at the Great Hall in Dartington,

Schubert:

Heiss mich nicht reden, D877 No 2

Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt, D877 No 4

So lasst mich scheinen, D877 No 3

Kennst du das Land, D321

Carolyn Sampson, soprano

Joseph Middleton, piano

Britten: Notturno

Schubert: Sonata in C minor, D958

Barry Douglas, piano

Produced by Chris Taylor for BBC Wales.

Nicola Heywood Thomas introduces music from festivals in Devon and Somerset.

0320150115Two Russian works by Prokofiev and Arensky from the Music at Tresanton Festival in Cornwall and the Plush Festival in Dorset.

Prokofiev: Sonata for Flute and Piano No.2

Ariel Zuckermann, flute

Noam Greenberg, piano

Arensky: Quartet No 2 in A minor, Op 35

Members of Ensemble 360 (Benjamin Nabarro, violin; Yuri Zhislin, viola; Adrian Brendel, cello; Gemma Rosefield, cello).

Music by Prokofiev from Music at Tresanton, plus Poulenc from the Plush Festival in Dorset

0320151231Performers from the International Musicians Seminar Prussia Cove bring Dvorကk to Bristol. Wolfgang Holzmair sings songs by Clara Schumann at All Saints Church in Dulverton, one of the towns playing host to the 2015 Two Moors Festival.

Dvorကk: Piano Quintet in A major op 81

Erich H怀barth and Jonian Ilias Kadesha, violin

Thomas Riebl, viola

Chiara Enderle, cello

Susan Tomes, piano

Clara Schumann: Das ist ein Tag, der klingen mag

Clara Schumann: Sie liebten sich beide

Clara Schumann: Der Mond kommt still gegangen

Clara Schumann: Volkslied

Clara Schumann: O Lust, o Lust

Wolfgang Holzmair, baritone

Imogen Cooper, piano.

Music from the Two Moors Festival and the International Musicians Seminar Prussia Cove.

03South West Festivals 3-420180111This week's lunchtime concerts come from two music festivals based in South West England: the Dartington Festival and the Two Moors Festival.

From All Saint's Church in Dulverton, at the Two Moors Festival, the Endellion String Quartet explore two contrasting classical works: Beethoven at his most gentle and lyrical, and Haydn full of good-natured fun. Between them, we hear more numbers from Carolyn Sampson's Schubert recital at Dartington's Great Hall.

Haydn: Quartet in G major, Op 54 No 1

Schubert: Romanze Der Vollmond strahlt, D797 No.3

Blondel zu Marien D626

Carolyn Sampson, soprano

Joseph Middleton, piano

Beethoven: Quartet in D major, Op 18 No 3

Produced by Chris Taylor for BBC Wales.

Nicola Heywood Thomas introduces music by Schubert from festivals in Devon and Somerset.

0420150116A final visit to the Plush Festival in Dorset, featuring members of Ensemble 360, and highlights from their programme titled 'Love and War

Prokofiev: 7th Piano Sonata in Bb, Op 83

Tim Horton (piano)

Taneyev: Canzone for clarinet & piano

Tim Horton, piano

Richard Hosford, clarinet

Shostakovich: 2nd Piano Trio in E minor, Op 67

Benjamin Nabarro, violin

Gemma Rosefield, cello

Tim Horton, piano.

Members of Ensemble 360 perform music by Prokofiev, Taneyev and Shostakovich.

0420160101A final visit to All Saints Church in Dulverton, during the Two Moors Festival 2015. Wolfgang Holzmair and Imogen Cooper perform songs by Robert Schumann, composed in the wake of his recent marriage to Clara, with Frank Martin's operatic settings of monologues from Hofmannstahl's morality play, 'Everyman

Frank Martin: Sechs Monologe aus Jedermann

Schumann: Liederreihe op 35

Wolfgang Holzmair, baritone

Imogen Cooper, piano.

Wolfgang Holzmair and Imogen Cooper perform at the Two Moors Festival 2015.

04South West Festivals 4-420180112Nicola Heywood Thomas presents music from The Two Moors Festival and Dartington International Summer School and Festival.

From All Saint's Church in Dulverton, at the Two Moors Festival, the Endellion String Quartet are joined by pianist Barry Douglas, to perform Brahms's Piano Quartet No 1 in G minor, Op 25, A work that brought Brahms one of his earliest public successes, and which wrests music of symphonic ambitions from it's four performers.

We also Schubert's ambitious and dramatic ballad 'Viola' recorded at the Great Hall in Dartington, sung by soprano Carolyn Sampson with pianist Joseph Middleton.

Schubert: Viola, D786

Carolyn Sampson, soprano

Joseph Middleton, piano

Brahms: Piano Quartet No 1 in G minor, Op 25

Barry Douglas, piano

Produced by Chris Taylor for BBC Wales.

The Endellion String Quartet perform Brahms's Piano Quartet No 1 in G minor.