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The Calidore Quartet, Eivind Holtsmark Ringstad

Clemency Burton-Hill celebrates the music-making of the BBC New Generation Artists. The Calidore String Quartet play a string quartet by the 18- year-old Mendelssohn.

Clemency Burton-Hill celebrates the music-making of the BBC New Generation Artists. Today the Calidore String Quartet from the USA play a string quartet by the 18-year-old Mendelssohn, written shortly after the death of Beethoven. And the Norwegian viola player Eivind Holtsmark Ringstad explores the richly sonorous world of Schumann's Fantasy Pieces.

Schumann: Phantasiestücke, Op 73
Eivind Holtsmark Ringstad (viola), David Meier (piano)

Mendelssohn: String Quartet in A minor, Op.13
Calidore String Quartet.

45 minutes

Last on

Sat 26 Aug 201712:15
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Robert Schumann

    Fantasy Pieces Op.73

    Performer: Eivind Holtsmark Ringstad. Performer: David Meier.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    String Quartet in A minor op. 13

    Ensemble: Calidore String Quartet.

Broadcast

  • Sat 26 Aug 201712:15
    BBC Radio 3

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