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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: By the Irish Sea

Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: By the Irish Sea: Episode 1: Pacifica Quartet

Music: Classical

Pacifica Quartet

Episode 1

Episode 1: Pacifica Quartet

By the Irish Sea

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The Pacifica Quartet plays works by Dvorak and Charles Ives in St George's Hall, Liverpool

The Pacifica Quartet at the 2014 Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Chamber Music Series. Dvorak: String Quartet, Op 96 (American). Ives: String Quartet No 1 (From the Salvation Army).

Katie Derham presents a week of concerts recorded by the Irish Sea, at the Liverpool Philharmonic Chamber Music Series, and the Mananan International Festival on the Isle of Man. Today the Indiana based Pacifica Quartet play two works composed in America: Dvorak's String Quartet Opus 96 which was written in Iowa in 1893, and Charles Ives first quartet, based on hymn tunes and composed whilst he was a student at Yale University.

Dvorak: String Quartet Op.96, "American"
Ives: String Quartet No.1 "From the Salvation Army"

Pacifica Quartet.

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 from the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Chamber Music Series and the Mananan Festival.

Katie Derham presents programmes featuring music performed at the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Chamber Music Series and the Mananan International Festival on the Isle of Man

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