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Live and recorded concerts from all over the United Kingdom. Also includes the flagship Wigmore chamber music series.

Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Bach

Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Bach: Episode 2: Pieter Wispelwey

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Episode 2: Pieter Wispelwey

Bach

Pieter Wispelwey

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Pieter Wispelwey performs solo cello suites by Bach, Bloch, Reger, Walton and Britten.

Pieter Wispelwey performs a selection of solo cello suites at City Halls, Glasgow. Bach: Suite No 5. Bloch: Suite No 1. Reger: Suite No 1. Walton: Passacaglia. Britten: Suite No 2.

Romantic Bach 2/4

Pieter Wispelwey performs Bach in the context of later composers who were strongly inspired by him and for whom the solo cello suites by JS Bach had a particular resonance as they neared the end of their lives.

Pieter Wispelwey, cello

BACH
Suite for solo cello No 5 in C minor, BWV1011
BLOCH
Suite for solo cello No 1 in D minor, 
REGER
Suite for solo cello, Op 131c No 2
WALTON
Passacaglia for solo cello
BRITTEN
Suite for solo cello No 2, Op 80.

Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

Concerts celebrating the enduring legacy of Bach through the Romantic era to today

Series of concerts given at City Halls, Glasgow, celebrating the enduring legacy of Bach through the Romantic era to the present day

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