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Radio 3 Live in Concert: Live from the Wigmore Hall, London: Episode 1: Britten Birthday Concert, part 1 - Les illuminations, Lachrymae

Britten Birthday Concert, part 1 - Les illuminations, Lachrymae

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Episode 1: Britten Birthday Concert, part 1 - Les illuminations, Lachrymae

Live from the Wigmore Hall, London

BBC Radio 3 - Radio 3 Live in Concert, Live from the Wigmore Hall, London, Britten Birthday Concert, part 1 - Les illuminations, Lachrymae

The Nash Ensemble in music by Britten: Les illuminations; Lachrymae for viola and strings.

Martyn Brabbins conducts the Nash Ensemble in music by Britten: Les illuminations; Lachrymae for viola and strings. With Sandrine Piau, John Mark Ainsley and Lawrence Power.

Live from the Wigmore Hall, London

Presented by Martin Handley

Nash Ensemble play Britten live from Wigmore Hall, conducted by Martyn Brabbins. They are joined by soloists Sandrine Piau, John Mark Ainsley, Richard Watkins and Lawrence Power for two of Britten's great early orchestral song cycles, as well as an early masterpiece for viola revisited by the composer at the very end of his life.

Britten: Les illuminations, Op.18
Britten: Lachrymae, Op.48a, for viola and strings

Sandrine Piau (soprano)
John Mark Ainsley (tenor)
Lawrence Power (viola)
Richard Watkins (horn)
Nash Ensemble
Martyn Brabbins (conductor)

Then at approx 9.15pm
Paul Lewis plays Schubert at the Wigmore Hall. One of the three great sonatas written by Schubert in the last months of his short life. 

Schubert: Piano Sonata in A, D.959 
Paul Lewis (piano) 
(continued on Thursday at approx 9.20pm with the Sonata in B flat, D. 960).

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Martin Handley presents the Nash Ensemble in an all-Britten programme of music

Martin Handley presents a concert featuring the Nash Ensemble in an all-Britten programme of music

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