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Oct 2016
7m 55s

Gabriela Montero

Bbc Radio 4
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Venezuelan pianist Gabriela Montero chooses the Schumann Fantasie performed by Clifford Curzon and Quintet Opus 18 by Mieczyslaw Weinberg, performed by the Borodin Quartet

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