Big Guitar Weekend Highlights 4
Big Guitar Weekend festival director Allan Neave joins forces with renowned guitarist and fellow Scot Matthew McAllister plus string quartet for music by Weiss and Leo Brouwer
Big Guitar Weekend festival director Allan Neave joins forces with world renowned guitarist and fellow Scot Matthew McAllister to perform music by the master lutenist of the 18th century, Silvius Leopold Weiss. A hand-picked quartet also joins Allan Neave to perform music for guitar and strings in a work by contemporary Cuban composer Leo Brouwer. To close the programme, the celebrated guitarists Paul Galbraith and Meng Su perform an arrangement of a Haydn piano sonata and an English masterpiece, William Walton’s only work for solo guitar.
Weiss: Suite No 16 for two guitars
Leo Brouwer: Quintet for guitar and strings
Walton: Five Bagatelles
Haydn: Sonata in E flat major Hob XVI: 31
Allan Neave - guitar
Matthew McAllister - guitar
Meng Su - guitar
Paul Galbraith - guitar
Greg Lawson and Alexandra Webber Garcia – violins
Thaddeus Chung - viola
Su-a Lee – cello
Presenter - Sean Shibe
Producer - Laura Metcalfe
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Sylvius Leopold Weiss
Suite No 16
Performer: Allan Neave. Performer: Matthew McAllister. -
Leo Brouwer
Quintet for guitar and strings
Performer: Allan Neave. Performer: Greg Lawson. Performer: Alexandra Webber Garcia. Performer: Thaddeus Chung. Performer: Su-a Lee. -
William Walton
Five Bagatelles
Performer: Meng Su. -
Joseph Haydn
Sonata in E flat major, Hob XVI:31
Performer: Paul Galbraith.
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- Fri 24 Jan 2020 13:00³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 3
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