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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: The Three Choirs Festival at 300

Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: The Three Choirs Festival at 300: Episode 2

Music: Classical

Episode 2

The Three Choirs Festival at 300

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Roderick Williams (baritone) in music by Tim Torry. Plus Steven Osborne playing Schubert.

Roderick Williams (baritone) and Susie Allan (piano) perform Tim Torry's The Face of Grief. Plus soloist Steven Osborne playing Schubert's Piano Sonata in B flat, D960.

Radio 3 visits one of the world's oldest music festivals, as it celebrates its tercentenary in Hereford in 2015
Two performances from Holy Trinity Church, including Roderick Williams in Tim Torry's settings of First World War poems by Charlotte Mew, and Steven Osborne in Schubert's final piano sonata.

Tim Torry: The Face of Grief
Roderick Williams, baritone
Susie Allan, Piano

Schubert: Sonata in B flat, D960
Steven Osborne, 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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