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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 4: Escher Quartet

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Episode 4

Episode 4: Escher Quartet

New Generation Artists at The Sage Gateshead

Escher Quartet

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The Escher Quartet play music by Mendelssohn and Zemlinsky at the Sage Gateshead.

Radio 3 New Generation artists the Escher Quartet at the Sage Gateshead. Zemlinsky: String Quartet No 1, Op 4. Mendelssohn: String Quartet No 6 in F minor, Op 80.

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 Escher Quartet perform the first of Alexander Zemlinsky's forays into the genre alongside Felix Mendelssohn's last major composition - his String Quartet No 6 in F minor.

Zemlinsky String Quartet No 1 in A, Op 4 
Mendelssohn String Quartet No 6 in F minor, Op 80

Escher 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 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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