Leamington Music Festival Weekend 2018 2 of 4
Today's Lunchtime Concert comes from the 2018 Leamington Music Festival Weekend. Czech Chamber music by Smetana and Reicha from the Prazak String Quartet and Ensemble 360.
The 2018 Leamington Music Festival Weekend marks the centenary of the founding of Czechoslovakia which happened two weeks before the Armistice of 11 November. The concerts all feature music by Czech composers from Bed艡ich Smetana, the father of the national school, to Erwin Schulhoff, who fought in the Great War only to be killed in the second World War in a concentration camp.
Today's programme features two internationally renowned ensembles - the Prazak String Quartet and Ensemble 360 performing Smetana's first string quartet "From My Life" and a wind quintet by Anton Reicha.
Smetana: Quartet No 1
Prazak String Quartet
Reicha: Wind Quintet in E flat, Op.88 No.2
Ensemble 360
Presented by Tom Redmond.
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Bedrich Smetana
String Quartet no. 1
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Antoine Reicha
Wind Quintet in E flat major, Op. 88 no. 2
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Erwin Schulhoff
Selections from Divertissement for Oboe, Clarinet and Bassoon
Performer: Klaus Thunemann. Performer: Heinz Holliger. Performer: Heinz Holliger. Performer: Eduard Brunner. Performer: Eduard Brunner.- Lockenhaus Collection Vol. 7.
- Philips.
Broadcast
- Wed 16 May 2018 13:00大象传媒 Radio 3