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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: By the Irish Sea

Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: By the Irish Sea: Episode 3

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Episode 3

By the Irish Sea

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Benjamin Appl sings Grieg in Port Erin and the Pacifica Quartet play Bartok in Liverpool.

Benjamin Appl (baritone) and Julius Drake (piano) perform Grieg's Sechs Lieder, Op 48. Plus the Pacifica Quartet playing Bartok's String Quartet No 6.

Ian Skelly continues our 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 Radio 3 New Generation Artist Benjamin Appl performs Grieg's Opus 48, six songs to German texts by different authors, and the Pacifica Quartet play Bartok's final string quartet, written just days before Germany's invasion of Poland and the start of World War II.

Grieg: Sechs Lieder, Op.48
Benjamin Appl (baritone) / Julius Drake (piano)

Bartok: String Quartet No.6
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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