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BBC Radio 3 is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 30th September 1967. It replaced Third Programme.

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Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

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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: Radio 3 New Generation Artists

Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Radio 3 New Generation Artists: Episode 1: Giuliano Sommerhalder, Khatia Buniatishvili, Escher String Quartet

Music: Classical

Episode 1

Episode 1: Giuliano Sommerhalder, Khatia Buniatishvili, Escher String Quartet

Radio 3 New Generation Artists

Giuliano Sommerhalder, Khatia Buniatishvili, Escher String Quartet

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Music from Giuliano Sommerhalder, Khatia Buniatishvili and the Escher String Quartet.

Music from Radio 3 New Generation Artists. Francaix: Sonatine. Giuliano Sommerhalder (trumpet), Kasia Wieczorek (piano). Mozart: Fantasia, K396. Plus Mozart and Dvorak.

From Tuesday to Friday this week the Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert is given over to studio and concert performances by members of the Radio 3 New Generation Artists scheme. Today's performers are the Swiss trumpeter Giuliano Sommerhalder in Francaix's Sonatine, Georgian pianist Khatia Buniatishvili in Mozart's C minor Fantasia, K396, and the Escher String Quartet from the USA in Dvorak's G major Quartet, Op. 106 

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Françaix: Sonatine
Giuliano Sommerhalder (trumpet), Kasia Wieczorek (piano)

Mozart: Fantasia in C minor, K396
Khatia Buniatishvili (piano)

Dvorak: String Quartet in G major, Op. 106
Escher String 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 members of the Radio 3 New Generation Artists scheme

Series of studio and concert performances given by members of the Radio 3 New Generation Artists scheme

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