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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: Music in the Great War

Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Music in the Great War: Episode 2: 1915

Music: Classical

1915

Episode 2

Episode 2: 1915

Music in the Great War

BBC Radio 3 - Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert, Music in the Great War, 1915

Works composed in the year 1915, by Debussy, Bartok and Reger.

Steven Isserlis (cello), Connie Shih (piano), Matthew Hunt (clarinet) Escher Quartet in works from the year 1915, by Debussy, Bartok and Reger. From the 2012 Cheltenham Festival.

Continuing this week's theme of music written during the First World War, another chance to hear part of a live concert given at Cheltenham Music Festival in 2012, exploring music written in 1915.

Debussy: Cello sonata
Bartok: Romanian dances
Reger: Clarinet quintet

Steven Isserlis (cello)
Connie Shih (piano)
Matthew Hunt (clarinet)
Escher Quartet.

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.

From the 2012 Cheltenham Music Festival, works composed during World War I

A series of concerts given at the 2012 Cheltenham Music Festival featuring pieces composed during World War I

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