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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: Cheltenham Music Festival 2014

Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Cheltenham Music Festival 2014: Episode 6

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Episode 6

Cheltenham Music Festival 2014

BBC Radio 3 - Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert, Cheltenham Music Festival 2014, Episode 6

Mark Padmore (tenor) and Huw Watkins (piano) in Watkins: 4 Sonnets. Schumann: Dichterliebe

Mark Padmore (tenor) and Huw Watkins (piano) perform at the 2014 Cheltenham Festival. Huw Watkins: Four Sonnets. Schumann: Dichterliebe.

In the second of this week's visits to the 2014 Cheltenham Music Festival, Mark Padmore premieres Four Sonnets, a new work by Huw Watkins and offers a fresh perspective on Schumann's song-cycle "Dichterliebe", settings of verse by Heine. 

Huw Watkins Four Sonnets
Schumann Dichterliebe 

Mark Padmore (tenor)
Huw Watkins (piano).

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Series of concerts given at the 2014 Cheltenham Music Festival

Series of concerts given at the 2014 Cheltenham Music Festival, celebrating its 70th birthday year

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