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Music: Classical: Chamber & Recital

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: The Frick Collection

Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: The Frick Collection: Episode 2: Schumann, Shostakovich

Music: Classical

Episode 2

Episode 2: Schumann, Shostakovich

The Frick Collection

Schumann, Shostakovich

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Chamber music from the Frick Collection, New York: works by Schumann and Beethoven.

Recital given at the Frick Collection in New York. Schumann: Three Romances, Op 22; Four songs (Myrthen). Shostakovich: String Quartet No 2, Op 68.

This week's Lunchtime Concerts are highlights from the annual Frick Collection chamber series in New York. Today's broadcast includes mezzo-soprano Renata Pokupic singing Lieder from Schumann's "Myrthen", Anthony Marwood & Alexander Madzar playing Schumann's 3 Romances for violin & piano, and the Moscow String Quartet performing Shostakovich's second quartet, Op.68.

Schumann 3 Romances for violin & piano, Op.22
Anthony Marwood (violin) / Alexander Madzar (piano)

Schumann 4 songs from "Myrthen"
Renata Pokupic (mezzo-soprano) / Roger Vignoles (piano)

Shostakovich String quartet No.2, Op.68
Moscow 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.

Concerts from the Frick Collection in New York, which has held concert seasons since 1938.

Series of concerts given at the Frick Collection, near Central Park in New York, which has held concert seasons since 1938

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