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Live and recorded concerts from all over the United Kingdom. Also includes the flagship Wigmore chamber music series.

Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Manchester Chamber Concerts Society 2016/17

Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Manchester Chamber Concerts Society 2016/17: Episode 1

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Episode 1

Manchester Chamber Concerts Society 2016/17

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Chamber music by Bach, Haydn and Brahms from the Manchester Chamber Concerts Society.

Music from the Manchester Chamber Concerts society 2016/17. Adam Walker (flute), Lawrence Power (viola) and the Arcadia Quartet feature in works by Bach, Haydn and Brahms.

This week's Lunchtime Concerts were recorded at the Royal Northern College of Music as part of the 80th year of the Manchester Chamber Concerts Society, curated by pianist Martin Roscoe. Today, flautist Adam Walker and harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani perform Bach's E minor sonata, viola player Lawrence Power and pianist Simon Crawford Phillips play one of Brahms' two viola sonatas, and The Arcadia Quartet performs one of Haydn's Op.33 string quartets.

Bach: Sonata in E minor, BWV.1034
Adam Walker (flute) / Mahan Esfahani (harpsichord)

Haydn: String Quartet in G, Op.33 No.5
Arcadia Quartet

Brahms: Sonata in F minor, Op.120 No.1
Lawrence Power (viola) / Simon Crawford Phillips (piano)

Presented by Hannah French.

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.

Hannah French presents music performed at the Manchester Chamber Concerts Society 2016/17.

Hannah French presents music performed at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester as part of the Manchester Chamber Concerts Society 2016/17, curated by Martin Roscoe

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