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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: Machynlleth and Gower Festivals 2016

Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Machynlleth and Gower Festivals 2016: Episode 2: Anna Stephany, Schubert Ensemble

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Episode 2: Anna Stephany, Schubert Ensemble

Machynlleth and Gower Festivals 2016

Anna Stephany, Schubert Ensemble

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With Anna Stephany in French songs and the Schubert Ensemble in a piano quartet by Faure.

With Anna Stephany (mezzo-soprano) singing French songs, plus the Schubert Ensemble in Cheryl Frances-Hoad's The Whole Earth Dances and Faure's Piano Quartet in C minor, Op 15 No 1.

This week's concerts are from festivals held in the Gower Peninsula and the picturesque mid-Wales market-town of Machynlleth. Today, mezzo-soprano Anna Stéphany explores French song repertoire with pianist Sholto Kynoch and the Schubert Ensemble play a new piece inspired by the landscape from Cheryl Frances-Hoad and Fauré's emotionally charged First Piano Quartet. 
Introduced by Christopher Cook. 

A selection of French songs
Anna Stéphany, mezzo-soprano
Sholto Kynoch, piano 

Cheryl Frances-Hoad: "The Whole Earth Dances"
Schubert Ensemble: 
Simon Blendis, violin 
Douglas Paterson, viola 
Jane Salmon, cello 
Peter Buckoke, double bass 

Fauré: Piano Quartet in C minor, Op 15 No 1
Schubert Ensemble: 
William Howard, piano 
Simon Blendis, violin
Douglas Paterson, viola 
Jane Salmon, cello.

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Music from festivals in the Gower Peninsula and the mid-Wales market town of Machynlleth

Christopher Cook presents concerts given at festivals in 2016 in the Gower Peninsula and the mid-Wales market town of Machynlleth

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