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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 3: Jennifer Johnston, Signum Quartet, Nicolas Altstaedt

Music: Classical

Episode 3

Episode 3: Jennifer Johnston, Signum Quartet, Nicolas Altstaedt

NGA Spring Programmes 2012

Jennifer Johnston, Signum Quartet, Nicolas Altstaedt

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With performances by Jennifer Johnston, the Signum Quartet and Nicolas Altstaedt.

Nicolas Altstaedt (cello) and Jonathan Cohen (harpsichord) in music by Bach. Jennifer Johnston (mezzo) and Joseph Middleton (piano) in English songs. The Signum Quartet in Haydn.

More performances from the current line-up of Radio 3's New Generation Artists Scheme. German cellist performs one of Bach's viola da gamba sonatas in G minor, BWV1029. British mezzo-soprano Jennifer Johnston gives a selection of English songs from Vaughan-Williams, Britten and Quilter, and the German Signum Quartet performs Haydn's Quartet op. 33 no. 3 - "the bird", all recorded in special Radio 3 New Generation Artists studio sessions.

Bach: Sonata no. 3 in G minor BWV.1029 for viola da gamba and keyboard 
Nicolas Altstaedt (cello)
Jonathan Cohen (harpsichord)

English song selection
Jennifer Johnston (mezzo-soprano)
Joseph Middleton (piano)

Haydn: Quartet in C major op. 33/3 "the bird"
Signum 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 programmes featuring studio and concert performances by members of the Radio 3 New Generation Artists scheme

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