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Soprano Ailish Tynan, accompanied by pianist Iain Burnside, sings Faure's Cinq melodies de Venise and Llyr Williams plays a Scriabin piano sonata.

John Toal presents the 2nd programme in this series of Lunchtime Concerts from the 2018 Belfast Music Society International Festival of Chamber Music. In today's recital, soprano Ailish Tynan and pianist Iain Burnside perform Faure's Cinq melodies de Venise based on the poetry of Paul Verlaine. Faure was commissioned to write the songs by Winnaretta Singer, heiress to the sewing machine fortune. The Armida Quartet return with Smetana's semi-autobiographical String Quartet No. 1 in E minor, in which he tried to distil periods of his life into musical sketches.

And finally today, pianist Ll欧r Williams performs Scriabin's Piano Sonata No. 5 Op. 53. Written in one movement, the composer described the work as "a big poem for piano" and claimed it as the best composition he had ever written. It has been deemed by some as one of the hardest pieces in the piano repertoire.

Faure: Cinq m茅lodies de Venise
Ailish Tynan (soprano) | Iain Burnside (piano)

Smetana: String Quartet No. 1 in E minor
The Armida Quartet

Scriabin: Piano Sonata No. 5 Op. 53
Ll欧r Williams (piano).

58 minutes

Music Played

  • Gabriel Faur茅

    5 m茅lodies de Venise, Op.58

    Performer: Iain Burnside. Singer: Ailish Tynan.
  • Bedrich Smetana

    String Quartet No.1 in E minor (From My Life)

    Ensemble: Armida Quartett.
  • Alexander Scriabin

    Piano Sonata No.5 in F Sharp Major, Op.53

    Performer: Ll欧r Williams.

Broadcast

  • Wed 1 Aug 2018 13:00