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Music: Classical: Chamber & Recital

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: Songlines

Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Songlines: Episode 4: James Gilchrist, Anna Tilbrook

Episode 4

Episode 4: James Gilchrist, Anna Tilbrook

Songlines

James Gilchrist, Anna Tilbrook

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James Gilchrist, Anna Tilbrook and Elias Quartet in Britten and Vaughan Williams.

Recital featuring tenor James Gilchrist, pianist Anna Tilbrook and Elias Quartet. Britten: The Holy Sonnets of John Donne. Vaughan Williams: On Wenlock Edge.

The final concert recorded at the Songlines series at this year's City of Song Festival in Derry, features tenor, James Gilchrist; pianist, Anna Tilbrook; with quartet in residence, the Elias Quartet. Brittten composed his song-cycle The Holy Sonnets of John Donne after returning from a concert with Yehudi Menuhin where they played to survivors of Nazi refugee camps. The experience had a profound effect on Britten and turned his thoughts to the problems of evil, suffering and salvation - the themes explored in this song-cycle. The series ends with Vaughan Williams's famous song cycle for tenor, piano and string quartet On Wenlock Edge to poems from A.E. Housman's A Shropshire Lad. Introduced by Sean Rafferty.

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 from the Guildhall in Londonderry as part of the 2010 City of Song Festival

Sean Rafferty introduces a series of concerts from the Guildhall in Londonderry as part of the 2010 City of Song Festival. With works for voice, piano and string quartet as well as music by Britten

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