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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: RNCM and Leamington International Quartet Series

Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: RNCM and Leamington International Quartet Series: Episode 1

Music: Classical

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Episode 1

RNCM and Leamington International Quartet Series

BBC Radio 3 - Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert, RNCM and Leamington International Quartet Series, Episode 1

With Bartok and Elgar from the New Zealand String Quartet and Villiers String Quartet.

With the New Zealand String Quartet performing Bartok's String Quartet No 3. Plus the Moscow Rachmaninov Trio playing music by Glinka and the Villiers Quartet in Elgar.

Our week of concerts from Leamington Spa and Manchester begins with the New Zealand String Quartet and Moscow Rachmaninov Trio playing Bartok and Glinka at the Royal Northern College of Music. The Villiers String Quartet conclude the programme with Elgar's Quartet Opus 83 from the Royal Pump Rooms as part of the Leamington Music International String Quartet Series.

Bartok: String Quartet No 3
New Zealand String Quartet

Glinka: Trio Pathétique in D minor
Moscow Rachmaninov Trio

Elgar: String Quartet in E minor, Op.83
Villiers String 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 at the Royal Pump Rooms in Leamington Spa and at the RNCM in Manchester

With music performed at the Royal Pump Rooms in Leamington Spa as part of the town's International String Quartet series, plus concerts from the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester

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