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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: Radio Big Chamber Weekend - Leeds College of Music

Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Radio Big Chamber Weekend - Leeds College of Music: Episode 3: Kathryn Rudge

Music: Classical

Kathryn Rudge

Episode 3

Episode 3: Kathryn Rudge

Radio Big Chamber Weekend - Leeds College of Music

BBC Radio 3 - Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert, Radio Big Chamber Weekend - Leeds College of Music, Kathryn Rudge

Music from Radio 3's Big Chamber Weekend, by Schumann, Elgar, Nyman and Strauss.

Music from Radio 3's Big Chamber Weekend. Schumann: Gedichte der Konigin Maria Stuart. Elgar: Sea Pictures. Nyman: Two Sonnets of Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz. Plus works by Strauss.

Sarah Walker presents the third of four programmes recorded at Radio 3's Big Chamber Weekend at the Leeds College of Music. 

The New Generation Artists scheme was founded in 1999 to nurture and support some of the world's best young musicians at the start of their international careers; this week there's a chance to hear four of them in concert with a brand new work commissioned jointly by BBC Radio 3 and the Royal Philharmonic Society.

Today, British mezzo Kathryn Rudge gives the world premiere of a new work written specially for her by Michael Nyman.

Schumann: Gedichte der Königin Maria Stuart, Op.135 
Elgar: Sea Pictures, Op.37 
Michael Nyman: Two Sonnets of Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz (World premiere - commissioned jointly by BBC Radio 3 and the RPS) 
Strauss: Wiegenlied, Op.41 No.1; All mein Gedanken, Op.21 No.1; Zueignung, Op.10 No.1

Kathryn Rudge (mezzo) / James Baillieu (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.

Programmes recorded at Radio 3's Big Chamber Weekend at the Leeds College of Music

Sarah Walker presents a series of programmes recorded at Radio 3's Big Chamber Weekend at the Leeds College of Music

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