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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: Aldeburgh Festival 2017

Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Aldeburgh Festival 2017: Episode 3

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Episode 3

Aldeburgh Festival 2017

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Tom Redmond introduces music by Faure and Shostakovich from the 2017 Aldeburgh Festival.

Music from Aldeburgh 2017. With Mark Padmore (tenor) and Roger Vignoles (piano) in Faure's La Bonne Chanson. Plus the Belcea Quartet playing Shostakovich's String Quartet No 3.

Tom Redmond continues a week of highlights from this year's Aldeburgh Festival in Suffolk. Today Mark Padmore sings Fauré in Aldeburgh Church, the centrepiece of a concert derived from the recital programmes of Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears, and the Belcea Quartet perform the 3rd String Quartet of Shostakovich.

Fauré: La Bonne Chanson, Op. 61
Mark Padmore (tenor)
Roger Vignoles (piano)

Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 3 in F major, Op. 73
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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