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Live and recorded concerts from all over the UK. Includes the Wigmore chamber music series

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

Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Radio 3 New Generation Artists

Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Radio 3 New Generation Artists: Episode 4: Performances by Francesco Piemontesi, Tai Murray and Mahan Esfahani, Pavel Haas Quartet

Performances by Francesco Piemontesi, Tai Murray and Mahan Esfahani, Pavel Haas Quartet

Episode 4

Episode 4: Performances by Francesco Piemontesi, Tai Murray and Mahan Esfahani, Pavel Haas Quartet

Radio 3 New Generation Artists

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Playing by Francesco Piemontesi, Tai Murray and Mahan Esfahani, and Pavel Haas Quartet.

Francesco Piemontesi (piano) in Haydn: Variations in F minor, H XVII 6. Tai Murray (violin) and Mahan Esfahani (harpsichord) in Corelli: Violin Sonata in B flat, Op 5 No 2.

Now entering its second decade, the Radio 3 New Generation Artist scheme exists to provide concert and recording opportunites to some of the world's finest younger musicians. The scheme's alumni include such major names as Paul Lewis, Alice Coote, Janine Jansen and the Belcea and Jerusalem string quartets.

In the last of four lunchtime programmes this week featuring studio and concert performances by current Radio 3 New Generation Artists, Swiss pianist Francesco Piemontesi performs Haydn's F minor Variations, American violinist and Iranian-born harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani team up for a sonata by Corelli, and the Pavel Haas Quartet from Prague play Smetana's First String Quartet 'From my Life'

Full programme:

Haydn: Variations in F minor, Hob.XVII:6
Francesco Piemontesi (piano)

Corelli: Violin Sonata in B flat major, Op. 5 No. 2
Tai Murray (violin), Mahan Esfahani (harpsichord)

Smetana: String Quartet No. 1 in E minor, 'From my life'
Pavel Haas Quartet.

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.

Studio and concert performances by Radio 3 New Generation Artists of the 2008/10 intake

Series of concerts featuring studio and concert performances given by Radio 3 New Generation Artists of the 2008/10 intake

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