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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 4: Armida Quartet

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Armida Quartet

Episode 4

Episode 4: Armida Quartet

Radio Big Chamber Weekend - Leeds College of Music

BBC Radio 3 - Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert, Radio Big Chamber Weekend - Leeds College of Music, Armida Quartet

The Armida Quartet performs music by Mozart, Johannes Fischer and Mendelssohn.

The Armida Quartet at the Radio 3 Big Chamber Weekend. Mozart: Adagio and Fugue in C minor, K546. Johannes Fischer: Canons and Sparrows. Mendelssohn: String Quartet in F minor.

Sarah Walker presents the last 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, the acclaimed young German string quartet, the Armidas, give the world premiere of a new work written specially for them by Johannes Fischer.

Mozart: Adagio and Fugue in C minor, K.546 
Johannes Fischer: Canons and Sparrows (World premiere - commissioned jointly by BBC Radio 3 and the RPS)
Mendelssohn: String Quartet in F minor, Op.80

Armida Quartet.

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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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