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Nicola Heywood Thomas introduces highlights from the Bath Mozartfest 2021, with concerts recorded at the iconic Assembly Rooms. In this final concert of highlights we begin with the composer Poulenc, in a short three-movement sonata performed side by side by pianists Paul Lewis and Steven Osborne. The programme also includes another piano duet, this time by Ravel who captures a feeling of childhood innocence, in a set of fantasy depictions that make up his Mother Goose Suite. Prior to that, Adam Walker and Michael McHale perform one of the most iconic flute sonatas of all time, Prokofiev鈥檚 Sonata in D, Op 94. The programme concludes with music by Szymanoswki composed in 1917 in Warsaw, with the Belcea Quartet performing their encore item, the middle movement from his String Quartet No 1.

Poulenc: Sonata for piano four hands
Paul Lewis, piano
Steven Osborne, piano

Prokofiev: Sonata in D major, Op 94
Adam Walker, flute
Michael McHale, piano

Ravel: Mother Goose Suite
Paul Lewis, piano
Steven Osborne, piano

Szymanowski: String Quartet No 1 in C, Op 37 (Andantino semplice)
Belcea Quartet

Produced by Luke Whitlock