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Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Wigmore Hall: Royal String Quartet

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Wigmore Hall: Royal String Quartet

01/07/2013

BBC Radio 3 - Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert, Wigmore Hall: Royal String Quartet

The Royal String Quartet performs Debussy and Tchaikovsky at the Wigmore Hall in London.

From the Wigmore Hall in London, the Royal String Quartet from Poland perform Debussy's String Quartet and the First String Quartet by Tchaikovsky.

A second opportunity to hear a concert first broadcast in the Wigmore Hall live Monday lunchtime series in July. Former Radio 3 New Generation Artists the Royal String Quartet perform Debussy's one and only String Quartet and the First Quartet by Tchaikovsky, whose second movement became one of his most famous compositions, the folksong-based 'Andante cantabile'
Presented by Louise Fryer.


Royal String Quartet

Debussy: String Quartet in G minor, Op. 10
Tchaikovsky: String Quartet No.1 in D, Op. 11.

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