Original version

BBC Radio 3 is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 30th September 1967. It replaced Third Programme.

BBC Radio 3

Radio 3

Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Performances & Events

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: Welsh Festivals

Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Welsh Festivals: Episode 1

Music: Classical

lunchtime-concert_heath-quartet_270115_e_amy-wheel.jpg

Episode 1

Welsh Festivals

BBC Radio 3 - Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert, Welsh Festivals, Episode 1Close menu

Music by Beethoven, Scriabin and Schumann performed at festivals in Wales.

Pavel Kolesnikov (piano) performs Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata and Scriabin's Piano Sonata No 4. Plus the Heath Quartet, Bengt Forsberg (piano) in Schumann's Piano Quintet, Op 44.

This week's series celebrates the rich variety of music-making taking place at festivals all around Wales.
As well as being an area of outstanding beauty, Gower has a vibrant annual music festival.
At St. Andrew's Church, Newton the young Russian pianist, Pavel Kolesnikov, one of Radio 3's New Generation Artists, plays Beethoven's "Moonlight" sonata and Scriabin, a composer with whom he feels a special affinity. Then it's off to Machynlleth, the seat of Owain Glyndwr's Welsh parliament in 1404, for a visit to this historic town's week-long annual music festival. At a concert given in the intimate setting of the Tabernacle, the Heath Quartet join Swedish pianist Bengt Forsberg for a Schumann's delightful Piano Quintet in E flat, written for and dedicated to his wife, the pianist Clara Wieck.

Beethoven: Piano Sonata no.14 in C sharp minor, Op.27 no.2 (Moonlight)
Scriabin: Sonata no.4 in F sharp major, Op.30
Pavel Kolesnikov, piano

Schumann: Piano Quintet in E flat,Op.44
Heath Quartet
Bengt Forsberg, piano.

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.

Series of programmes featuring performances given at music festivals around Wales in 2014.

Series of programmes featuring performances given at music festivals around Wales in 2014

Accessibility links

Programme Index

Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Welsh Festivals

Episode 1

Genres

Formats

Brand

Series

BBC Radio 3

About BBC Radio 3