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Alexander Gadjiev plays Chopin on Chopin's own piano

Radio 3's New Generation Artists: Alexander Gadjiev plays Chopin's Piano Concerto No 2 on Chopin's own piano, and Alessandro Fisher sings Britten's Winter Words.

Alexander Gadjiev plays Chopin's Piano Concerto No 2 on Chopin's own 1848 Pleyel piano, and Alessandro Fisher sings Britten's Winter Words.

Britten's eight settings of poems by Thomas Hardy are named after Hardy's last published collection and Britten dedicated them to John and Myfanwy Piper, the latter being the librettist of his opera, The Turn of the Screw, written at the same time. Alessandro Fisher recorded the songs recently at the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ studios. Before them, Alexander Gadjiev evokes the world of FrΓ©dΓ©ric Chopin's salon in a performance he gave last year in the Music Room at Hatchlands Park in Surrey. He is joined by the period instruments of the Consone Quartet as he plays the Second Concerto on Chopin's own Pleyel piano of the 1840s, the period in which Henry James set his Turn of the Screw.

Chopin arr. Kevin Kenner: Piano Concerto no 2 in F minor, Op. 21
Alexander Gadjiev (Pleyel piano of 1848)
The Consone Quartet with Jan Zahourek (double bass)

Britten: Winter Words Op. 52
Alessandro Fisher (tenor), Ashok Gupta (piano)

59 minutes

Last on

Sat 18 Feb 2023 21:00

Music Played

  • Benjamin Britten

    Winter Words Op.52

    Performer: Ashok Gupta. Singer: Alessandro Fisher.
  • FrΓ©dΓ©ric Chopin

    Piano Concerto no 2 in F minor arr. for String Quintet

    Performer: Alexander Gadjiev. Performer: Jan Zahourek. Ensemble: Consone Quartet.

Broadcast

  • Sat 18 Feb 2023 21:00