These lunchtime are a series of concerts from Cardiff that put a musical and artistic mirror to the chamber music of Shostakovich.

Monday 9 October: 1 - 2pm
Michelangelo Quartet

Beethoven's Quartet, Op 18'2
Shostakovich's Quartet No 3, Op 73, in F.

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Tuesday 10 October 2006, 1 - 2pm

Royal String Quartet

Mozart's String Quartet in D minor, K421
Webern's Langsamer Satz
Shostakovich's Quartet No 8 in C minor.

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Wednesday 11 October 2006; 1 - 2pm

Ailish Tynan soprano and Simon Lepper piano

Shostakovich's Five Satires, Op 109
Rosenthal's Chansons de M Bleu (excerpts)
Poulenc's La Courte Paille,
Britten's The Poet's Echo, Op 76.

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Thursday 12 October: 1 - 2pm

Trio Ondine

Schumann's Piano Trio No 2 in F, Op 80
Shostakovich's Piano Trio No 2, Op 67.

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Fridau 13 October 2006: 1 - 2pm

Thomas Carroll cello and Llyr Williams piano

Quartet for strings no. 11 (Op.122) in F minor
Quartet for strings no. 4 (Op.83) in D major
Quartet for strings no. 10 (Op.118) in A flat major

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