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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: Wigmore Hall: Mark Simpson

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Wigmore Hall: Mark Simpson

BBC Radio 3 - Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert, Wigmore Hall: Mark Simpson

Mark Simpson (clarinet) and Richard Uttley (piano) in Howells, Gavin Higgins and Brahms.

Mark Simpson (clarinet), Richard Uttley (piano) perform at Wigmore Hall, London. Howells: Clarinet Sonata in A. Gavin Higgins: Three Broken Love Songs. Brahms: Sonata, Op 120 No 1.

Clarinettist Mark Simpson and pianist Richard Uttley perform live at London's Wigmore Hall, with music by Gavin Higgins, Howells, and Brahms's Sonata in F minor Op 120 No 1.

Live from Wigmore Hall, London.

Gavin Higgins: 3 Broken Love Songs
Howells: Clarinet Sonata in A (1946)
Brahms: Sonata in F minor, Op 120 No 1

Mark Simpson (clarinet)
Richard Uttley (piano)

Presented by Sara Mohr-Pietsch.

Mark Simpson was the first person to win both the BBC Young Musician of the Year and the BBC Proms/Guardian Young Composer of the Year competitions. He is currently a member of BBC Radio 3's New Generation Artists scheme, and is joined today by pianist Richard Uttley. The programme starts with 3 Broken Love Songs, written in 2006 by London-based composer Gavin Higgins, followed by Howells's last major chamber work, the Sonata in A major. The concert concludes with a great masterpiece of the clarinet repertoire: the Sonata in F minor by Brahms, Op 120 No 1.

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