Two of BBC Radio 3’s current New Generation Artists come together for a programme of chamber music spanning over 200 years. The Van Kuijk Quartet joins forces with clarinettist Annelien Van Wauwe for Mozart’s lyrical Clarinet Quintet, whose expansive melodies and sunny A major key belie the struggles and sadnesses of his personal life.
Webern’s Langsamer Satz (Slow Movement) is, by contrast, the ecstatic outpouring of a young man in love, happier than ever before and writing music once described as ‘Tristan and Isolde compressed into 11 minutes’.
In his first string quartet, which today receives its world premiere, French composer and pianist Laurent Durupt explores contrasts both of musical material and musical time, and asks whether the differences are conflicting or complementary.
Who better to celebrate the 450th anniversary of Monteverdi’s birth than I Fagiolini, who have spent a career unpicking the knotty conflicts and emotional truths of the composer’s music. The...
Finnish folk music meets familiar Baroque textures in a programme exploring two genres with a shared love of song and dance.
Soprano Anu Komsi and violinist Kreeta-Maria Kentala both have family...
Still in his early twenties, French cellist Edgar Moreau is already making his mark with the exuberant virtuosity of his playing. Here he joins the Baroque ensemble Il Pomo d’Oro for a programme...
‘Our family discussed the Revolution of 1905 constantly… The stories deeply affected my imagination.’ Born in the shadow of one of Russia’s darkest hours – the slaughter of over 1,000...
With triumphant performances for the Royal Opera and Glyndebourne behind her, rising German soprano Christiane Karg now makes her Proms debut. She is joined by pianist Malcolm Martineau for a musical...
Still in his twenties, award-winning pianist and former BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist Pavel Kolesnikov has been praised for the sensitivity and maturity of his playing. Fresh from a critically...
Schubert’s final chamber work is a piece of sublime beauty, a masterpiece of the repertoire composed only two months before the composer’s death at the age of just 31. Instead of the additional...
