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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: South West Festivals 2012

Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: South West Festivals 2012: Episode 3

Music: Classical

South West Festivals 2012

Episode 3

BBC Radio 3 - Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert, South West Festivals 2012, Episode 3

Including performances for cello by Adrian Brendel and Ralph Kirshbaum.

Adrian Brendel (cello) and Adrian Brendel (cello) in Brett Dean: Huntington Eulogy. Ralph Kirshbaum (cello), Simon Parkin (piano) in Shostakovich: Cello Sonata in D minor, Op 40.

More from the summer's music festivals in the south-west, featuring two show-stopping performances for cello. Adrian Brendel performs music inspired by the Australian landscape at his own 'Music at Plush' festival in Dorset, while Ralph Kirshbaum presents Shostakovich at Truro in Cornwall.

Brett Dean: Huntington Eulogy
Adrian Brendel (cello)
Kit Armstrong (piano)

Shostakovich: Cello Sonata in D minor, Op.40
Ralph Kirshbaum (cello)
Simon Parkin(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.

Programmes celebrating the 2012 summer festival season in the south west of England

Series of programmes celebrating the 2012 summer festival season in the south west of England

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