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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: Debussy's Last Words

Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Debussy's Last Words: Episode 2: Trio Verlaine

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Episode 2: Trio Verlaine

Debussy's Last Words

Trio Verlaine

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Trio Verlaine perform the trio for flute, viola and harp by Debussy and other works.

Concert given at Cowdray Hall by Trio Verlaine. Ravel: Le tombeau de Couperin. Bax: Elegiac Trio. Marais: Five French dances. Debussy: Syrinx; Sonata for flute, viola and harp.

In this series 'Debussy's Last Words' from the Cowdray Hall in Aberdeen, the Trio Verlaine perform one of the three instrumental sonatas which Debussy completed in his final year, a trio for flute, viola and harp as well as works by Ravel, Bax and Marais.

Ravel Le Tombeau de Couperin 
Bax Elegiac Trio 
Marais Five French dances 
Debussy Syrinx 
Debussy Sonata for flute, viola and harp 

Trio Verlaine: 
Lorna McGhee (flute)
David Harding (viola)
Heidi Krutzen (harp).

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.

Series of concerts given at the Cowdray Hall in Aberdeen featuring music by Debussy

Series of concerts given at the Cowdray Hall in Aberdeen featuring music by Debussy, to mark the 150th anniversary of his birth

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