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Music: Classical: Chamber & Recital

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: The Three Choirs Festival at 300

Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: The Three Choirs Festival at 300: Episode 4

Music: Classical

Episode 4

The Three Choirs Festival at 300

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With performances by Steven Osborne and the Wihan Quartet.

Steven Osborne plays Beethoven's Piano Sonata in E minor, Op 90. Plus the Wihan Quartet in Haydn's String Quartet in G, Op 54 No 1 and Beethoven's String Quartet, Op 18 No 4.

Radio 3 visits one of the world's oldest music festivals, as it celebrates its tercentenary in 2015.
Steven Osborne presents another Beethoven piano sonata at Holy Trinity Church in Hereford, while the Wihan Quartet perform Haydn and Beethoven at Leominster Priory. 

Beethoven: Piano Sonata in E minor, Op. 90
Steven Osborne, piano

Haydn: String Quartet in G Op 54 No 1 
Beethoven: String Quartet Op 18 No 4
Wihan 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.

Music performed in Hereford at the Three Choirs Festival

Series of programmes of music from one of the world's oldest music festivals, as it celebrates its tercentenary in Hereford

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