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Giorgi Gigashvili and the Chaos Quartet in Chopin and Haydn

Music by Valentin Silvestrov, Haydn, Chopin and Emma Rawicz from current and recent members of Radio 3's internationally acclaimed young artist programme.

Geneva Lewis plays Valentin Silvestrov鈥檚 Violin Sonata 鈥淧ost scriptum鈥 which he describes as 鈥渁 postscript to Mozart and the whole classical tradition... The text has already been written. We simply add our annotations, thoughts, questions, consternation, astonishment and regret." And, after Haydn from the Chaos Quartet and Chopin from Giorgi Gigashvili, there are two tracks from Radio 3's current New Generation, Emma Rawicz. Cloudwalker, she says, "imagines a dreamlike journey, in an alternate reality where one can walk on clouds while watching the earth below," whilst Cowboys and Aliens was the result of "stumbling across a particularly 'wonky' feeling groove that turned out to be in the unusual time signature of 23/8. It also somehow reminded me of horses galloping, and the combination of that and the bizarre lilt of the piece led me to its whimsical title."

Valentin Silvestrov: Sonata (Post scriptum) for violin and piano
Geneva Lewis (violin), Llyr Williams (piano)

Haydn: String Quartet in D major Op.20 no.4
Chaos Quartet

Chopin: Two Nocturnes Op. 62
Giorgi Gigashvili (piano)

Emma Rawicz: Cloudwalker
Emma Rawicz: Cowboys and Aliens
Emma Rawicz (saxophone) with Rasmus S酶rensen (piano) Asaf Sirkis (drums), Freddie Jensen (string bass)

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1 hour, 17 minutes

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Next Saturday 20:10

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