Episode 3
With the Brodsky Quartet in Mendelssohn's Fugue (Four Pieces, Op 81) and Shostakovich's String Quartet No 8. Plus Vikingur Olafsson (piano) in Glass's Etudes Nos 5, 6, 13 and 20.
John Toal presents the third programme in this series from the Belfast Music Society's International Festival of Chamber Music 2017, recorded at the Great Hall, Queen's University, Belfast. Performances from the Brodsky Quartet bookend this programme, which they open with Mendelssohn's Fugue from Four Pieces, Op. 81 and finish with Shostakovich's String Quartet No. 8 which the composer dedicated to the "Victims of Fascism and War". The centrepiece is pianist V铆kingur 脫lafsson with a selection of 脡tudes by Philip Glass to celebrate the composer's 80th birthday earlier this year.
Mendelssohn: Fugue from Four Pieces, Op. 81
Brodsky Quartet
Philip Glass: 脡tudes No 5, 6, 13, 20
V铆kingur 脫lafsson (piano)
Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 8 in C minor, Op. 110
Brodsky Quartet.
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- Thu 2 Mar 2017 13:00大象传媒 Radio 3