Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert - Mendelssohn Chamber Music - Episode 4

Penny Gore presents part of a series of concerts in which the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment perform some of Mendelssohn's best-loved chamber music for wind and strings at St George's, Bristol, as part of BBC Radio 3's Mendelssohn anniversary celebrations. The programme features pieces with unusual scoring: Hummel's Quintet, Op 87, instrumented using the same combination of piano, violin, viola, cello and double bass as Schubert did for his more famous Trout quintet, as well as Mendelssohn's Sextet in D, which uses piano, violin, two violas, cello and bass and was written he was just 15. Steven Devine (piano) Alison Bury (violin) Jan Schlapp, Annette Isserlis (violas) Ruth Alford (cello) Cecilia Bruggemeyer (double bass) Hummel: Quintet in E flat for piano, violin, viola, cello and bass, Op 87 Mendelssohn: Sextet in D for piano, violin, two violas, cello and bass, Op 110.