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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 3

Music: Classical

Maurice Steger and Friends at the Frick Collection

Episode 3

Frick Collection

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

Hannah French presents chamber music by Nadia Boulanger, Debussy, Provenzale and Part.

Chamber music by Nadia Boulanger, Debussy, Provenzale and Part performed by mezzo-soprano Anne-Sofie von Otter and cellist Nicolas Altstaedt. Presented by Hannah French.

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 splendid music room. 

In today's programme, cellist Nicolas Altstaedt and pianist Alexander Lonquich perform Debussy's Cello Sonata and Three Pieces by Nadia Boulanger, there are songs & scenas by Michel Lambert, Francesco Provenzale and Arvo Part 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 currently on display in the gallery, including Edgar Degas' "The Rehearsal".

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.

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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