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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 5: 1918

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1918

Episode 5

Episode 5: 1918

Music in the Great War

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Music composed in 1917 and 1918 from the 2012 Cheltenham Music Festival.

Concert from the 2012 Cheltenham Festival, featuring music connected with the year 1918, by Debussy, Stravinsky and Bruch. With Anthony Marwood (violin), Jennifer Sturm (viola).

The concluding part of a series journeying through music written during the First World War takes in Debussy's violin sonata from 1917 and two works written in the final year of conflict, 1918.
Recorded at Cheltenham Music Festival in 2012.

Debussy: Sonata for violin and piano
Stravinsky: The Soldier's Tale suite for piano, clarinet and violin
Bruch: String Quintet in A minor

Katherine Gowers (violin)
Anthony Marwood (violin)
Jennifer Stumm (viola)
Matthew Hunt (clarinet)
Connie Shih (piano)
Charles Owen (piano)
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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