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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: LSO St Luke's Bach, Britten, Shostakovich

Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: LSO St Luke's Bach, Britten, Shostakovich: Episode 3: LSO St Luke's (Bach, Britten, Shostakovich): Alban Gerhardt

Music: Classical

LSO St Luke's (Bach, Britten, Shostakovich): Alban Gerhardt

Episode 3

Episode 3: LSO St Luke's (Bach, Britten, Shostakovich): Alban Gerhardt

LSO St Luke's Bach, Britten, Shostakovich

BBC Radio 3 - Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert, LSO St Luke's Bach, Britten, Shostakovich, LSO St Luke's (Bach, Britten, Shostakovich): Alban Gerhardt

Alban Gerhardt in a solo cello recital, featuring suites by Bach and Britten.

Katie Derham presents Alban Gerhardt in a solo cello recital. Britten: Suite No 1, Op 72. Bach: Suite No 6 in D, BWV1012.

LSO St Luke's Bach, Britten, Shostakovich.

The third in this week's series of Lunchtime Concerts exploring music by Bach, Britten and Shostakovich.

Continuing the theme of contrasting compositions by these featured composers, the cellist Alban Gerhardt performs Bach and Britten solo suites, juxtaposing the traditional dance movements of the Baroque French style with the more freely composed 20th century version which includes fugues and folk songs.


Alban Gerhardt (cello)

Britten: Suite No 1 for solo cello Op 72
Bach: Suite No 6 in D major for solo cello BWV1012

Presented by Katie Derham.

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 LSO St Luke's in London exploring music by Bach, Britten and Shostakovich

Series of concerts given at LSO St Luke's in London exploring music by Bach, Britten and Shostakovich

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