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The Armida Quartet at the Radio 3 Big Chamber Weekend. Mozart: Adagio and Fugue in C minor, K546. Johannes Fischer: Canons and Sparrows. Mendelssohn: String Quartet in F minor.

Sarah Walker presents the last of four programmes recorded at Radio 3's Big Chamber Weekend at the Leeds College of Music.

The New Generation Artists scheme was founded in 1999 to nurture and support some of the world's best young musicians at the start of their international careers; this week there's a chance to hear four of them in concert with a brand new work commissioned jointly by 大象传媒 Radio 3 and the Royal Philharmonic Society.

Today, the acclaimed young German string quartet, the Armidas, give the world premiere of a new work written specially for them by Johannes Fischer.

Mozart: Adagio and Fugue in C minor, K.546
Johannes Fischer: Canons and Sparrows (World premiere - commissioned jointly by 大象传媒 Radio 3 and the RPS)
Mendelssohn: String Quartet in F minor, Op.80

Armida Quartet.

58 minutes

Last on

Fri 25 Nov 2016 13:00

Music Played

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Adagio and fugue in C minor K.546

    Ensemble: Armida Quartett.
  • Johannes Fischer

    Canons and Sparrows

    Ensemble: Armida Quartett.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Quartet no. 6 in F minor Op.80

    Ensemble: Armida Quartett.
  • Franz Schubert

    Fruhlingsglaube D.343

    Performer: James Baillieu. Singer: Kathryn Rudge.

Broadcast

  • Fri 25 Nov 2016 13:00