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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 3: Barber, Liszt, Bartok

Music: Classical

Episode 3

Episode 3: Barber, Liszt, Bartok

The Frick Collection

Barber, Liszt, Bartok

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Chamber music from the Frick Collection, New York: works by Barber, Liszt and Bartok.

A recital given at the Frick Collection in New York. Barber: songs including A Nun Takes the Veil; Nocturne. Liszt: Five Little Pieces. Bartok: Violin Sonata No 1 in A minor.

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 a selection of songs by Samuel Barber, Martin Helmchen playing Liszt's 5 Little Pieces for piano, and Anthony Marwood & Alexander Madzar performing Bartok's Violin Sonata No.1 in A minor.

Barber A Nun takes the veil; The Secrets of the Old; Nocturne; Solitary Hotel
Renata Pokupic (mezzo-soprano) / Roger Vignoles (piano)

Liszt 5 Little pieces for piano
Martin Helmchen (piano)

Bartok Violin Sonata No.1 in A minor
Anthony Marwood (violin) / Alexander Madzar (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.

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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