Bartok's 4th Quartet live from Wigmore Hall

Elizabeth Alker with a week of exclusive music-making including a live concert from the Brentano Quartet from Wigmore Hall, performing music by Haydn, Bartok and from American composer Timo Andres.

Also, this week Classical Live explores a world of opera without words, today featuring operatic music by Verdi and Mascagni; we also have exclusive concert recordings from the Portico of Ards in County Down; and following his sad death in February, across the week we’ll hear exclusive performances by the Hungarian pianist and conductor Tamás Vásáry. Today’s programme includes an all-Hungarian performance from Tamás Vásáry of Mahler’s Symphony No.4 with soprano Ingrid Kertesi, and the Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Budapest.

LIVE from WIGMORE HALL, introduced for Classical Live by Hannah French

Brentano Quartet

Joseph Haydn
String Quartet in C minor Op. 17 No. 4
Timo Andres
Machine, Learning
Béla Bartók
String Quartet No. 4

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With Elizabeth Alker

Repertoire includes:

Giuseppe Verdi
Hymn and Triumphal March from 'Aida'
WDR Radio Orchestra, Cologne
Rasmus Baumann (conductor)

Pietro Mascagni
Symphonic Interlude, from 'Cavalleria Rusticana'
WDR Radio Orchestra, Cologne
Rasmus Baumann (conductor)

From Protico of Ards:
Thomas Tallis
In jejunio et fletu
Gesualdo Six
Owain Park (director)

Clara Schumann
Piano Concerto
Alexandra Dariescu (piano)
Ulster Orchestra
Olari Elts (conductor)

Gustav Mahler
Symphony No. 4
Ingrid Kertesi (soprano)
Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Budapest
Tamás Vásáry (conductor)