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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: Sol Gabetta plays Chopin, Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninov

Wigmore Hall Mondays - Sol Gabetta and Polina Leschenko

Sol Gabetta plays Chopin, Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninov

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Sol Gabetta and Polina Leschenko perform Rachmaninov's Cello Sonata at Wigmore Hall.

Cellist Sol Gabetta and pianist Polina Leschenko play Chopin, Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninov at London's Wigmore Hall.

Argentine cellist Sol Gabetta is joined by young pianist Polina Leschenko in a programme of Romantic classics notable for their emotional intensity. Music, she says, 'provides an opportunity for us to describe life as we feel it'.

Recorded at Wigmore Hall, London, March 2015
Presented by Sara Mohr-Pietsch

Chopin: Introduction and Polonaise brillante in C major, Op 3
Tchaikovsky: Lensky's Aria (Eugene Onegin)
Rachmaninov: Sonata for Cello and Piano in G minor Op 19
 
Sol Gabetta (cello)
Polina Leschenko (piano)

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