This summer, the Sacconi Quartet performed a series of concerts for BBC Radio 3’s Big Chamber Weekend as part of Hull UK City of Culture 2017.
These concerts will be broadcast on Radio 3 this week:
1pm on Wednesday 4th October: ‘Wilberforce‘
with James Gilchrist (tenor), Anna Tilbrook (piano), Andrew Berridge (viola)
Chevalier de Saint-Georges: String quartet No.6 (1st mvt)
Samuel Coleridge Taylor: songs tbc
Beethoven: String Quintet in C major, Op.29 “Storm”
1pm on Thursday 5th October ‘The North Sea’
with James Gilchrist (tenor), Anna Tilbrook (piano), Graham Mitchell (double bass)
Faure: L’Horizon Chimerique
Schubert: Die Forelle, D.550
Schubert: Piano Quintet in A major, D.667 “Trout”
1pm on Friday 6th October ‘The Blitz‘
with James Gilchrist (tenor), Anna Tilbrook (piano)
Ireland: Spring Sorrow
Gurney: In Flanders
Gurney: By a Bierside
Shostakovich: String Quartet No.8 in C minor, Op.110
Vaughan Williams: On Wenlock Edge