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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: Portico Festival

Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Portico Festival: Episode 1

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Portico Festival

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Performances of music by Bach, Mozart and Strauss from Portico in Northern Ireland.

Music from Portico in Northern Ireland. Finghin Collins (piano), Armida Quartet, Sarah-Jane Brandon (soprano) and Gary Matthewman (piano) feature in Bach, Mozart and Strauss.

John Toal introduces the first of four programmes from Northern Ireland's newest arts and heritage centre. Portico, situated in the heart of Portaferry on the Upper Ards Peninsula, is a Grade-A listed Greek Revival Temple which has just undergone a £1.5 million restoration. While the building continues to be used by the local Presbyterian congregation, it has now become a resource for the whole community to use.

Today's programme features Irish pianist Finghin Collins, Radio 3 New Generation Artists the Armida Quartet, and the 2009 winner of the Kathleen Ferrier Competition, soprano Sarah-Jane Brandon, in works by Bach, Mozart and Richard Strauss.

Bach: Partita No. 1 in B flat major
Finghin Collins (piano)

Mozart: String Quartet No.5 in F Major, K158
Armida Quartet

R. Strauss:
Verführung from Vier Gesänge Op. 33, No.1
Ständchen Op. 17 No. 2
Das Rosenband Op. 36 No. 1
Gesang der Apollopriesterin from Vier Gesänge Op. 33, No. 2
Sarah-Jane Brandon (soprano)/ Gary Matthewman (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.

John Toal introduces programmes featuring music performed at Portico in Portaferry

John Toal introduces a series of programmes featuring music performed at Portico in Portaferry, which is Northern Ireland's newest arts and heritage centre

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