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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: NGA Spring Programmes 2012

Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: NGA Spring Programmes 2012: Episode 2: Escher Quartet, Alexandra Soumm, Ben Johnson

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Episode 2

Episode 2: Escher Quartet, Alexandra Soumm, Ben Johnson

NGA Spring Programmes 2012

Escher Quartet, Alexandra Soumm, Ben Johnson

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Performances by the Escher Quartet, Alexandra Soumm and Ben Johnson.

Escher Quartet in Webern. Shabaka Hutchings (clarinet) and Nicolas Altstaedt (cello) in Xenakis. Alexandra Soumm (violin), Julien Quentin (piano) in Beethoven. Plus Italian songs.

More performances from the current line-up of New Generation Artists. The American Escher Quartet perform Webern's intricate 5 Movements. Clarinettist Shabaka Hutchings, usually more associated with jazz, teams up with German cellist Nicolas Altstaedt in a duo called "Charisma", by Iannis Xenakis. French violinist Alexandra Soumm performs Beethoven's 3rd violin sonata, and Ben Johnson finishes with a selection of Italian songs.


Anton Webern: 5 Movements for String Quartet op. 5 
Escher String Quartet 

Xenakis: Duo for Clarinet and Cello "Charisma" 
Shabaka Hutchings (clarinet)
Nicolas Altstaedt (cello)

Beethoven: Sonata for violin and piano op 12 no. 3 
Alexandra Soumm (violin)
Julien Quentin (piano)

Italian songs selection 
Ben Johnson (tenor)
James Baillieu (piano).

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 programmes featuring studio and concert performances by members of the Radio 3 New Generation Artists scheme

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