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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: Leeds International Chamber Season and Sheffield Music in the Round

Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Leeds International Chamber Season and Sheffield Music in the Round: Episode 3

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Leeds International Chamber Season and Sheffield Music in the Round

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Chamber music by Debussy, Bystrom, Sibelius and Saint-Saens from Leeds and Sheffield.

With works by Debussy, Bystrom and Sibelius performed at the Leeds International Chamber Season 2014/15, plus Ensemble 360 playing Saint-Saens at Sheffield's Music in the Round.

This week's Lunchtime Concerts come from the Leeds International Chamber Season and Sheffield's Music in the Round. Today, there's piano music by Debussy and Sibelius performed by Norwegian pianist Håvard Gimse, Saint-Saens' oboe sonata played by members of Ensemble 360, and a new piece by the Norwegian composer Britta Byström, played by trumpeter Tine Thing Helseth, clarinettist Andreas Ottensamer and pianist Julien Quentin.

Debussy: Images Oublièes (1894)
Håvard Gimse (piano)

Britta Byström: Trio: Encounter in Space
Tine Thing Helseth (trumpet) / Andreas Ottensamer (clarinet) / Julien Quentin (piano)

Saint-Saens: Oboe Sonata in D
Ensemble 360

Sibelius: Impromptu Op 5, No 5
Sibelius: The Birch (Piano Pieces, Op.75)
Sibelius: The Spruce (Piano Pieces, Op.75)
Sibelius: Arabesque (Piano Pieces, Op.76)
Håvard Gimse (piano).

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Series of programmes featuring music performed at the Leeds International Chamber Season 2014/15 and Sheffield's Music in the Round

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