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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: Aldeburgh Festival 2016

Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Aldeburgh Festival 2016: Episode 2

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Aldeburgh Festival 2016

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With Britten: 6 Holderlin Fragments; String Quartet No 1. Plus Tippett: Piano Sonata No 2.

From Aldeburgh 2016: Britten: 6 Holderlin Fragments; String Quartet No 1. Plus Tippett: Piano Sonata No 2. With Ian Bostridge, Julius Drake, Steven Osborne and the Arcadia 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 tenor Ian Bostridge, pianists Julius Drake and Steven Osborne, and the Arcadia Quartet.

Presented from Aldeburgh by Tom Redmond.

Britten: 6 Hölderlin Fragments
Ian Bostridge (tenor) / Julius Drake (piano)

Tippett: Piano Sonata No.2
Steven Osborne (piano)

Britten: String Quartet No.1
Arcadia 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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