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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: The Three Choirs Festival at 300

Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: The Three Choirs Festival at 300: Episode 1

Music: Classical

Episode 1

The Three Choirs Festival at 300

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Roderick Williams (baritone), Susie Allan (piano) in Vaughan Williams, Rhian Samuel, Elgar

Roderick Williams (baritone) and Susie Allan (piano), in a performance given in Hereford. Vaughan Williams: 4 Last Songs. Rhian Samuel: A Swift Radiant Morning. Elgar: Sea Pictures.

Radio 3 visits one of the world's oldest music festivals, as it celebrates its Tercentenary in Hereford in 2015.
Roderick Williams performs, at Holy Trinity Church, songs connected with the centenary of World War One, including the world premiere of a festival commission from the Welsh composer Rhian Samuel. A Swift Radiant Morning sets poems by CH Sorley, who was killed in action in 1915.

Vaughan Williams: Four Last Songs
Rhian Samuel: A swift radiant morning
Elgar: Sea Pictures

Roderick Williams, baritone
Susie Allan, piano.

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 performed in Hereford at the Three Choirs Festival

Series of programmes of music from one of the world's oldest music festivals, as it celebrates its tercentenary in Hereford

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