Bartok's 4th Quartet live from Wigmore Hall

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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 ***** 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)