A taste of chamber music from the Edinburgh International Festival Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: A selection of chamber music from the Queen's Hall, performed at the 2023 Edinburgh International Festival, including a new work for string quartet by Mark-Anthony Turnage.

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Musical highlights recorded at the Queen's Hall in Edinburgh during the 2023 festival.

The Castalian Quartet plays Janacek’s first string quartet ‘after Tolstoy’s Kreutzer Sonata’, reflecting the novella’s dark and violent story of a broken marriage. Next, the quartet give a world premiere of music by one of the most widely-performed composers of his generation, English composer Mark-Anthony Turnage. Pianist colleagues and friends Leif Ove Andsnes and Bertrand Chamayou play music for four hands on one piano; Schubert’s Fugue in E minor and violinist Clara-Jumi Kang performs a virtuosic finale with Ysaye’s Sonata No 6, filled with Spanish tangos and habaneras for its dedicatee, the Spanish violinist Manuel Quiroga.

Janacek: String Quartet No.1 “Kreuzer Sonata”
Mark-Anthony Turnage: Awake - for string quartet (World Premiere)
Schubert: Fugue in E minor D952
Ysaye: Sonata for Solo Violin No. 6 in E major (Op. 27

Castalian String Quartet
Leif Ove Andsnes - piano
Bertrand Chamayou - piano
Clara-Jumi Kang (violin)

Stephen Broad - presenter
Laura Metcalfe - producer