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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: New Year New Music

Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: New Year New Music: Episode 1: Pavel Haas Quartet and Colin Currie

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Episode 1

Episode 1: Pavel Haas Quartet and Colin Currie

New Year New Music

Pavel Haas Quartet and Colin Currie

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The Pavel Haas Quartet and Colin Currie perform works by Maxwell Davies, Goehr and Haas.

Pavel Haas Quartet and percussionist Colin Currie perform works by Peter Maxwell Davies, Alexander Goehr and Pavel Haas, recorded in concert at the 2008 City of London Festival.

In the first of four concerts this week from the archive, featuring works co-commissioned by Radio 3 and the Royal Philharmonic Society for members of the Radio 3 New Generation Artist scheme, the Pavel Haas Quartet are joined by percussionist Colin Currie in Alexander Goehr's Since Brass, nor Stone, plus works by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies and Pavel Haas.

Recorded as part of the 2008 City of London Festival.

Sir Peter Maxwell Davies: A Sad Paven for These Distracted Tymes
Alexander Goehr: Since Brass, nor Stone
Pavel Haas: String Quartet No 2 (From the Monkey Mountains)

Pavel Haas Quartet
Colin Currie (percussion).

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.

New works performed by Radio 3 New Generation Artists

Four programmes of new works co-commissioned by Radio 3 and the Royal Philharmonic Society for members of the Radio 3 New Generation Artist scheme

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