Part 3
RVW150: From LSO St Luke's in London, the Nash Ensemble perform Bruch's Piano Quintet in G minor and Vaughan Williams's String Quartet No 2 in A minor.
As part of Radio 3's season Vaughan Williams Today, celebrating the 150th anniversary of his birth, another chance to hear an archive series from the Nash Ensemble performing at LSO St Luke's in London in 2017.
The UK's leading chamber group, the Nash Ensemble, celebrate two of the most tuneful of chamber music composers, Bruch and Vaughan Williams - and their little-known connection.
Bruch: Piano Quintet in G minor
Vaughan Williams: String Quartet No 2 in A minor
Nash Ensemble
In 1897 the young Englishman Ralph Vaughan Williams spent an enjoyable few months in Berlin studying with the renowned German composer Max Bruch. "Bruch encouraged me," Vaughan Williams recalled, "and I had never had much encouragement before." Bruch's official testimonial for Vaughan Williams calls him "a very good musician and a talented composer"; Vaughan Williams also remembered Bruch appreciating his "ve-ry o-riginaal ideeas" - though not his harmonies, which were "rather too originell". Hearing their music together, the delightful surprise is discovering how much they had in common.
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Music Played
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Max Bruch
Piano Quintet in G minor
Ensemble: Nash Ensemble. -
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Ralph Vaughan Williams
String Quartet No 2 in A minor
Ensemble: Nash Ensemble. -
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Malcolm Arnold
Sonatina for clarinet and piano, Op 29 (3rd mvt)
Performer: Judith Pearce. Performer: Gareth Hulse. Performer: Michael Collins. Performer: Brian Wightman. Performer: John Pigneguy. Performer: Roger Chase. Performer: Ian Brown. Ensemble: Nash Ensemble. -
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Robert Schumann
Papillons, Op. 2 (excerpt)
Performer: Elisabeth Leonskaja.- Schumann.
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Broadcasts
- Thu 6 Jul 2017 13:00大象传媒 Radio 3
- Thu 25 Apr 2019 13:00大象传媒 Radio 3
- Thu 19 May 2022 13:00大象传媒 Radio 3