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Jean-Guihen Queyras

Live from Wigmore Hall in London, French cellist Jean-Guihen Queyras plays music for solo cello by Bach, Britten and Turkish composer Ahmet Adnan Saygun.

Live from Wigmore Hall in London, French cellist Jean-Guihen Queyras plays music by Bach, Britten and Turkish composer Ahmet Adnan Saygun

Presented by Hannah French

JS Bach: Cello Suite No 1 in G, BWV1007
Ahmet Adnan Saygun: Partita for solo cello, Op 31
Benjamin Britten: Cello Suite No 1, Op 72

Music for solo cello by one of today’s leading exponents of the instrument, including works by the Turkish composer Ahmet Adnan Saygun (1907-91), described in an obituary as ‘the grand old man of Turkish music, who was to his country what Jean Sibelius is to Finland, what Manuel de Falla is to Spain, and what BĂ©la BartĂłk is to Hungary’.

57 minutes

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Sun 26 Nov 2023 13:00
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Music Played

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Cello Suite No 1 in G, BWV1007

    Performer: Jean‐Guihen Queyras.

  • Ahmed Adnan Saygun

    Partita for solo cello, Op 31

    Performer: Jean‐Guihen Queyras.

  • Benjamin Britten

    Cello Suite No 1, Op 72

    Performer: Jean‐Guihen Queyras.

Broadcasts

  • Mon 20 Nov 2023 13:00
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  • Sun 26 Nov 2023 13:00
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