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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: Schwetzingen Festival 2017

Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Schwetzingen Festival 2017: Episode 3: Casals Quartet, Artemis Quartet, Martin Helmchen

Music: Classical

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Episode 3: Casals Quartet, Artemis Quartet, Martin Helmchen

Schwetzingen Festival 2017

Casals Quartet, Artemis Quartet, Martin Helmchen

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From the 2017 Schwetzingen Festival, music by Mozart, Webern, Schubert and Lachenmann.

With the Casals Quartet in Mozart: String Quartet No 17. Artemis Quartet in Webern: Langsamer Satz. Plus Martin Helmchen (piano) performing music by Schubert and Lachenmann.

Highlights of the Schwetzingen festival 2017, introduced by Ian Skelly. 

Mozart: Hunt Quartet, K 458 
Casals Quartet 

Webern: Langsamer Satz 
Artemis Quartet

Schubert: 13 Variations on a Theme by Anselm Huttenbrenner 
Lachenmann: Five Variations on a Theme by Schubert 
Martin Helmchen, 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.

Ian Skelly presents music performed at the 2017 Schwetzingen Festival

Ian Skelly presents a series of programmes featuring music performed at the 2017 Schwetzingen Festival

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