Alessio Bax and Lucille Chung live from Wigmore Hall and the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Singers mark Remembrance Day with Howells
Fiona Talkington showcases the best performances from the UK and beyond. Music from the recent Cowbridge Music Festival and a piano duo recital from London's Wigmore Hall.
Today's Classical Live begins with a recital from Londonβs Wigmore Hall featuring pianists Alessio Bax and Lucille Chung. The married couple whose meeting at the 1997 Hamamatsu Competition has led to a remarkable musical partnership, will perform music by Schubert, Poulenc, Debussy and Piazzolla.
This week, there will also be a focus on classical music from Denmark including Bach from the Copenhagen Baroque Festival and the Danish National Symphony Orchestra performing Bernstein's Serenade, after Plato's 'Symposium'.
Also in today's programme, a specially recorded performance from the Castalian Quartet at this year's Cowbridge Music Festival in Wales; and the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Singers mark Remembrance Day with a performance of Herbert Howells' heartfelt 'Requiem'.
Live from Wigmore Hall London - presented by Hannah French:
Franz Schubert
Fantasie in F minor, D940
Francis Poulenc
Sonata for piano 4 hands
Claude Debussy (arranged by LΓ©on Roques)
La plus que lente
Claude Debussy (arranged by Maurice Ravel)
Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune
Astor Piazzolla (arranged by Alessio Bax and Lucille Chung)
Lo que vendrΓ‘
Astor Piazzolla (arranged by Alessio Bax and Lucille Chung)
Milonga del Γngel
Astor Piazzolla (arranged by Alessio Bax and Lucille Chung)
Libertango
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From the Cowbridge Music Festival 2024:
Franz Schubert
Quartettsatz in C minor, D703
Ludwig van Beethoven
Quartet in F minor, Op 95 βSeriosoβ β―
Castalian Quartet
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Bleib bei uns, denn es will Abend werden, BWV 6
Chisa Tanigaki (soprano)
James Hall (countertenor)
Gwilym Bowen (tenor)
TomΓ‘s KrΓ‘l (bass)
Leonard Bernstein
Serenade, after Plato's 'Symposium'
Carolin Widmann (violin)
Danish National Symphony Orchestra
Stanislav Kochanovsky (conductor)
Herbert Howells
Requiem
ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Singers
Andrew Nethsingha (conductor)
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- Mon 11 Nov 2024 13:00ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3