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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 3

Music: Classical

Episode 3

The Three Choirs Festival at 300

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Steven Osborne plays Beethoven's Piano Sonata in A, Op 101. Plus Wihan Quartet in Smetana.

Steven Osborne performs Beethoven's Piano Sonata in A, Op 101. Plus the Wihan Quartet playing Smetana's Quartet No 1 (From My Life).

Radio 3 visits one of the world's oldest music festivals, as it celebrates its tercentenary in Hereford and Leominster in 2015.
The Wihan Quartet present a semi-autobiographical work by their Czech compatriot, Bedrich Smetana. Steven Osborne performs one of the great piano sonatas by Beethoven.

Beethoven: Sonata in A major, Op.101
Steven Osborne, piano

Smetana: Quartet no.1 'From my Life'
Wihan Quarte.

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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