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Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Aldeburgh Festival 2016

Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Aldeburgh Festival 2016: Episode 1

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Episode 1

Aldeburgh Festival 2016

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Including Britten's Nocturnal and On this Island, plus Tippett's String Quartet No 2.

From Aldeburgh 2016, Britten: Songs from the Chinese; Holy Sonnets of John Donne. Plus Tippett: String Quartet No 2. With Sean Shibe, Toby Spence, Julian Milford and Heath Quartet.

This week's Lunchtime Concerts come from the 2016 Aldeburgh Festival, and all focus on chamber music and songs by contemporaries and friends Benjamin Britten and Michael Tippett. Today's performers are Toby Spence & Julian Milford, Sean Shibe & the Heath Quartet.

Presented from Aldeburgh by Tom Redmond.

Britten - Nocturnal for solo guitar
Sean Shibe (guitar)

Britten - On this Island
Toby Spence (tenor) / Julian Milford (piano)

Tippett - String Quartet No.2
Heath Quartet.

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Tom Redmond presents programmes featuring concerts given at the 2016 Aldeburgh Festival

Tom Redmond presents programmes featuring concerts given at the 2016 Aldeburgh Festival, focusing on chamber music and songs by contemporaries and friends Britten and Tippett

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