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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 2

Music: Classical

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Episode 2

RNCM and Leamington International Quartet Series

BBC Radio 3 - Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert, RNCM and Leamington International Quartet Series, Episode 2

With the Villiers String Quartet playing Delius and the Moscow Rachmaninov Trio in Arensky

With the Villiers String Quartet performing Delius's String Quartet, RT VIII 8, and the Moscow Rachmaninov Trio playing Arensky's Piano Trio No 2 in F minor, Op 73.

This week of concerts recorded at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester and the Royal Pump Rooms in Leamington Spa continues with the Villiers String Quartet playing Delius, and the Moscow Rachmaninov Trio with a work by Anton Arensky, a pupil of Rimsky-Korsakov who went on to teach Scriabin and Rachmaninov.

Delius: Quartet RT.8.8 for strings
Villiers String Quartet 

Arensky: Piano Trio No.2 in F minor Op.73 
Moscow Rachmaninov Trio.

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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