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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: New Generation Artists at The Sage Gateshead

Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: New Generation Artists at The Sage Gateshead: Episode 2: Benjamin Grosvenor

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Episode 2

Episode 2: Benjamin Grosvenor

New Generation Artists at The Sage Gateshead

Benjamin Grosvenor

BBC Radio 3 - Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert, New Generation Artists at The Sage Gateshead, Benjamin Grosvenor

Pianist Benjamin Grosvenor plays Bach, Chopin and Rachmaninov at The Sage Gateshead.

This week's Lunchtime Concerts feature some of Radio 3's New Generation Artists at The Sage Gateshead. Today, pianist Benjamin Grosvenor plays Bach, Chopin and Rachmaninov.

This week's Lunchtime Concerts come from The Sage Gateshead, with performances by some of Radio 3's current New Generation Artists. In today's broadcast, the pianist Benjamin Grosvenor performs the fourth of Bach's six technically demanding solo keyboard partitas, Chopin's moving 3rd and final piano sonata, and three of Rachmaninov's most famous crowd-pleasing miniatures.

Bach Partita No.4 in D, BWV.828 
Chopin Sonata No.3 in B minor, Op.58 
Rachmaninov Etude Tableau, Op.39'5 
Rachmaninov Lilacs 
Rachmaninov Polka de W.R.

Benjamin Grosvenor (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 given at The Sage Gateshead by some of Radio 3's current New Generation Artists

Series of concerts given at The Sage Gateshead by some of Radio 3's current New Generation Artists

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