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Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Aldeburgh Festival 2017

Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Aldeburgh Festival 2017: Episode 1

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Aldeburgh Festival 2017

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The Belcea Quartet in concert. Haydn: String Quartet in D. Britten: String Quartet No 3.

Tom Redmond introduces the Belcea Quartet in concert at Snape Maltings for the 2017 Aldeburgh Festival. Haydn: String Quartet in D, Op 20 No 4. Britten: String Quartet No 3, Op 94.

Tom Redmond presents the first of four lunchtime concerts recorded at this year's Aldeburgh Festival in Suffolk. This year the festival is marking the 50th anniversary of the Snape Maltings Concert Hall and today the Belcea Quartet perform Haydn, the overriding musical passion of the acoustician Derek Sugden who helped Britten to create the hall, and the final quartet of Britten himself, premiered at Snape Maltings just days after the composer's death. 

Haydn: String Quartet in D major, Op. 20 no. 4 

Britten: String Quartet no. 3, Op. 94

performed by the Belcea Quartet.

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Tom Redmond presents concerts given at Snape Maltings for the 2017 Aldeburgh Festival

Tom Redmond presents a series of concerts given at Snape Maltings concert hall at the 2017 Aldeburgh Festival in Suffolk

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