大象传媒

Nicola Heywood Thomas introduces highlights from the Bath Mozartfest 2021, with concerts recorded at the iconic Assembly Rooms. A spirited and dizzying dance begins the concert, as Adam Walker, Michael Collins and Michael McHale join forces Saint-Sa毛ns's Tarentelle in A minor. A set of pictorial short pieces then follows, as the pianists Paul Lewis and Steven Osborne sit side-by-side to perform music by Faur茅 - his Dolly Suite. It鈥檚 a work that was composed for the young daughter of the singer Emma Bardac. Leaving the world of French classical music and the theme of youth, the concert concludes with a Russian work written late in the life of Shostakovich, as he鈥檇 suffered greatly with his health and was diagnosed with lung cancer. The Belcea Quartet perform his String Quartet in F sharp major, No 14 Op 142.

Saint-Sa毛ns: Tarentelle in A minor, Op 6
Adam Walker, flute
Michael Collins, clarinet
Michael McHale, piano

Faur茅: Dolly Suite, Op 56
Paul Lewis, piano
Steven Osborne, piano

Shostakovich: String Quartet in F sharp major, No 14 Op 142
Belcea Quartet

Produced by Luke Whitlock