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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 4

Music: Classical

LSO St Luke's Bach, Britten, Shostakovich

Episode 4

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Katie Derham presents the Brodsky Quartet in music by Bach, Britten and Shostakovich.

Katie Derham presents the Brodsky Quartet performing music by Bach, Britten and Shostakovich at LSO St Luke's in London.

LSO St Luke's Bach, Britten, Shostakovich.

In the last of this week's series of recitals featuring Bach, Britten and Shostakovich, The Brodsky Quartet tackles all three, beginning with selected movements from Bach's extraoridnary masterpiece - The Art of Fugue. Shostakovich's quartet was dedicated to and inspired by members of the Beethoven Quartet which premiered it in 1966. The recital concludes with Britten's 3rd String Quartet, his last major work written the year before his death. 
Brodsky Quartet

Bach: The Art of Fugue (Contrapuncti I & VI)
Shostakovich: String Quartet No 11 in F minor Op 122
Britten: String Quartet No 3 Op 94

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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