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Live and recorded concerts from all over the United Kingdom. Also includes the flagship Wigmore chamber music series.

Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Llyr Williams

Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Llyr Williams: Episode 1: Llyr Williams and Calefax

Music: Classical

Llyr Williams

Episode 1

Episode 1: Llyr Williams and Calefax

Llyr Williams and Calefax

BBC Radio 3 - Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert, Llyr Williams, Llyr Williams and Calefax

Llyr Williams performs Beethoven and Calefax play Christopher Bowman and Rameau.

Llyr Williams plays Beethoven's Piano Sonata in A flat and reed quintet Calefax play a new work by Christopher Bowman and La triomphante by Rameau.

The first in a series of four concerts from Wales features Welsh pianist Llyr Williams with Beethoven's calling card for the Eroica symphony, the so-called Funeral march sonata, and Dutch ensemble Calefax play the premiere of a new work for reed quintet by the young composer Christopher Bowman and dance music by Jean-Philippe Rameau in the atmospheric setting of Swansea National Waterfront Museum. 

Recorded at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama and Swansea International Festival. 

Beethoven: Piano Sonata no.12, in A flat major, Op 26 
Llyr Williams, piano 
Christopher Bowman: Largo for Reed Quintet 
Calefax 
Jean-Philippe Rameau, arr Raaf Hekkema: La triomphante (Nouvelles Suites) 
Calefax.

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 performances by pianist Llyr Williams

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