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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: Royal Northern College of Music/Wigmore Hall

Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Royal Northern College of Music/Wigmore Hall: Episode 4

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Episode 4

Royal Northern College of Music/Wigmore Hall

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Brahms and Beethoven performed by Imogen Cooper, Paul Lewis and François-Frédéric Guy.

Paul Lewis and Imogen Cooper (piano) Brahms: Three Hungarian Dances. Plus François-Frédéric Guy performing Beethoven's Piano Sonata in B flat, Op 106 (Hammerklavier).

This week's Lunchtime Concerts come from the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester and from London's Wigmore Hall, with performances by pianists François-Frédéric Guy, Imogen Cooper and Paul Lewis, and baritone Christopher Maltman with pianist Joseph Middleton.
Today's broadcast features some of Brahms's Hungarian Dances for 2 pianos alongside Beethoven's much loved "Hammerklavier" Sonata.


Brahms: Three Hungarian Dances for piano duet
Paul Lewis and Imogen Cooper (piano)

Beethoven: Piano Sonata in B flat, Op.106 'Hammerklavier'
François-Frédéric Guy (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.

Concerts from the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester and Wigmore Hall, London

Concerts from the RNCM and the Wigmore Hall, London, with performances by pianists François-Frédéric Guy, Imogen Cooper and Paul Lewis, and baritone Christopher Maltman with pianist Joseph Middleton

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