Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert - Fiddlefest 2 ... with strings attached ... - Episode 2

Sean Rafferty introduces music from Fiddlefest 2 - a chamber music festival celebrating the violin and its repertoire, recorded at Christ Church in Londonderry. Violinist Alexandra Soumm and pianist Julien Quentin open the programme with Prokofiev's Violin Sonata in D. It began life as a flute sonata but David Oistrakh thought it would make a good violin sonata and he managed to sell the idea to the composer. It is followed by Bartok's String Quartet No 1 performed by the Brodsky Quaret. The work was completed in 1909, when Bartok began his resarches into Hugarian folk music, but the quartet shows little influence of these studies until the finale. Prokofiev: Sonata in D for violin and piano, Op 94 Alexandra Soumm (violin) Julien Quentin (piano) Bartok: String Quartet No 1, Sz 40 Brodsky Quartet: Daniel Rowland, Ian Belton (violins) Paul Cassidy (viola) Jacqueline Thomas (cello).