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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: Lunchtime Schubertiad

Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Lunchtime Schubertiad: Episode 6: Champs Hill: Michael Collins and Friends

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Champs Hill: Michael Collins and Friends

Episode 6

Episode 6: Champs Hill: Michael Collins and Friends

Lunchtime Schubertiad

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Sean Rafferty introduces Schubert's Octet in F performed at Champs Hill in Sussex.

From Champs Hill, Sussex. Schubert: Octet in F, D803. Michael Collins (clarinet), Doric Quartet, Richard Watkins (horn), Robin O'Neill (bassoon), Lynda Houghton (double bass).

Radio 3's celebration of The Spirit of Schubert continues live from Champs Hill in Sussex. Sean Rafferty introduces a performance of one of Schubert's best loved masterpieces, the Octet in F, D803. 

In 1824 Count Ferdinand Troyer, a talented amateur clarinettist proposed to Schubert that he write a follow-up to Beethoven's immensely successful Septet. Schubert duly obliged, adding a second violin to the line-up and creating a work that was quintessentially his own.

Acclaimed Clarinettist Michael Collins is joined by the young Doric Quartet, as well as horn player Richard Watkins, bassoonist Robin O'Neill and Double Bassist Lynda Houghton to play this enduringly popular work.

Schubert: Octet in F, D803 

Michael Collins (clarinet)
Doric Quartet
Richard Watkins (horn)
Robin O'Neill (bassoon)
Lynda Houghton (double bass).

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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