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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: Concerts from the Hay Festival 2014

Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Concerts from the Hay Festival 2014: Episode 4

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Episode 4

Concerts from the Hay Festival 2014

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Richard Watkins and Julius Drake perform at the Hay Festival.

Richard Watkins and Julius Drake perform music by Beethoven, Schumann, Franz Strauss, Poulenc and Saint-Saens at the Hay Festival.

Music for horn and piano, performed by Richard Watkins and Julius Drake at St Mary's Church, Hay-on-Wye. Included in the concert is Schumann's Adagio and Allegro in A flat major, Op 70, described by his wife Clara as "a magnificent piece, fresh and passionate; just what I like". Also performed is Poulenc's Elégie, written in 1957 to commemorate the death of the famous English horn-player Dennis Brain

Richard Watkins (horn)
Julius Drake (piano)

Ludwig van Beethoven: Horn Sonata in F, Op 17
Robert Schumann: Adagio and Allegro in A flat, Op 70
Franz Strauss: Nocturne, Op 7
Francis Poulenc: Elégie, H168
Camille Saint-Saëns: Morceau de concert in F minor, Op 94.

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.

Concerts given at St Mary's Church at Hay-on-Wye as part of the 2014 Hay Festival

Series of concerts given at St Mary's Church at Hay-on-Wye as part of the 2014 Hay Festival

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