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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: Elias Quartet Beethoven Cycle

Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Elias Quartet Beethoven Cycle: Episode 3

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Episode 3

Elias Quartet Beethoven Cycle

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Elias Quartet in Beethoven: String Quartets: C minor, Op 18 No 4; E minor, Op 59 No 2.

The Elias Quartet performs at the Concert Hall, Reading and Southampton University. Beethoven: String Quartet in C minor, Op 18 No 4; String Quartet in E minor, Op 59 No 2.

For the last three years, the Elias Quartet have been devoting their time to a complete concert cycle of the Beethoven quartets, which they have performed at venues up and down the country. The first instalment was broadcast on BBC Radio 3 over the Christmas-New Year period last year; now, in this second part, broadcast throughout this week on Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert, they bring the project to a conclusion.

Beethoven: String Quartet in C minor, Op 18 No 4
Elias Quartet
(Recorded in February at The Concert Hall, Reading)

Beethoven String Quartet in E minor, Op 59 No 2
Elias Quartet
(Recorded in May at the Turner Sims Concert Hall, University of Southampton).

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.

Part of the Elias Quartet's complete concert cycle of the Beethoven quartets

Series of programmes featuring part of the Elias Quartet's complete concert cycle of the Beethoven quartets

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