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

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Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Lunchtime Schubertiad

Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Lunchtime Schubertiad: Episode 1: Signum Quartet

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Episode 1: Signum Quartet

Lunchtime Schubertiad

Signum Quartet

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Signum Quartet in Schubert: Quartettsatz, D703; String Quartet (Death and the Maiden).

The Signum Quartet in a concert from Holkham Hall in Norfolk. Schubert: Quartettsatz in C minor, D703; String Quartet No 14 in D minor, D810 (Death and the Maiden).

Continuing BBC Radio 3's celebration of The Spirit of Schubert, Louise Fryer presents this special live Lunchtime Concert from the beautiful surroundings of Holkham Hall in Norfolk. The German-based Signum Quartet - one of BBC Radio 3's current batch of New Generation Artists - performs two of Schubert's best known works for string quartet: the short movement known as his Quartettsatz and his last contribution to the genre - the "Death and the Maiden" Quartet, written in 1824.

SCHUBERT - Quartettsatz in C minor, D.703
SCHUBERT - String Quartet No.14 in D minor "Death and the Maiden", D.810.

Producer Les Pratt.

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 special concerts aiming to recreate the spirit of Schubert's time

Series of special concerts aiming to recreate the spirit of Schubert's time, for a season celebrating the Viennese composer's life and music

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