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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: Frick Collection

Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Frick Collection: Episode 1

Music: Classical

Maurice Steger and Friends at the Frick Collection

Episode 1

Frick Collection

BBC Radio 3 - Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert, Frick Collection, Episode 1

Chamber music by Purcell, Haydn and Beethoven from the Frick Collection in New York.

Chamber music by Purcell, Haydn and Beethoven performed by mezzo-soprano Anne-Sofie von Otter, cellist Nicolas Altstaedt and the Minetti Quartet.

This week's Lunchtime Concerts - presented by Hannah French - come from The Frick Collection art museum in New York, where an annual series of chamber music recitals has been held for the past 78 years in its sumptuous music room. 

In today's programme, cellist Nicolas Altstaedt and pianist Alexander Lonquich perform Beethoven's 7 Variations on "Bei Männern welche Liebe fühlen", the Minetti Quartet plays Haydn's "Sunrise" quartet, Op.76 No.4 and there are songs by Purcell and even Kate Bush songs from mezzo-soprano Anne-Sofie von Otter with lutenist Thomas Dunford and keyboard player Jonathan Cohen.

Throughout the week, Hannah is at the Frick Collection, and talks to Chief Curator Xavier Salomon about some of the paintings in the museum, including Vermeer's "Girl Interrupted at her Music".

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Hannah French presents chamber recitals from the Frick Collection art museum in New York

Hannah French presents chamber music recitals given at the Frick Collection art museum in New York

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