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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 4

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Episode 4

Aldeburgh Festival 2016

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Ian Bostridge and Julius Drake in Britten and Steven Osborne in Tippett.

Music performed at the 2016 Aldeburgh Festival. With Ian Bostridge and Julius Drake in Britten's Winter Words and Steven Osborne in Tippett's Piano Sonata No 4.

In the fourth and final Lunchtime Concert from the 2016 Aldeburgh Festival, tenor Ian Bostridge and pianist Julius Drake perform Britten's settings of Thomas Hardy poems - Winter Words, and Steven Osborne plays Tippett's tour-de-force 4th Piano Sonata.

Britten - Winter Words
Ian Bostridge (tenor) / Julius Drake (piano)

Tippett - Piano Sonata No.4
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.

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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