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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: Verbier Festival 2016

Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Verbier Festival 2016: Episode 2

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Verbier Festival 2016

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Music by Bartok and Mendelssohn performed at the 2016 Verbier Festival.

From the 2016 Verbier Festival, Leonidas Kavakos, Martin Frost, Yuja Wang in Bartok's Contrasts. Plus Daniel Hope, Torlief Thedeen and Marc-Andre Hamelin in  Mendelssohn's Trio.

Presented by Gavin Plumley.

Highlights of the 2016 Verbier Festival, recorded during the summer at the Combins Hall and in the parish church.

Bartok: Contrasts 
Leonidas Kavakos, violin
Martin Fröst, clarinet
Yuja Wang, piano

Mendelssohn: Trio in D minor 
Daniel Hope, violin
Torlief Thedeen, cello
Marc-André Hamelin, 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.

Series of programmes of highlights from the 2016 Verbier Festival

Series of programmes of highlights from the 2016 Verbier Festival, recorded during the summer at the Combins Hall and in the parish church

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