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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: Edinburgh 70

Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Edinburgh 70: Episode 3: Beginnings: Dohnanyi and Poulenc in Concert

Music: Classical

Beginnings: Dohnanyi and Poulenc in Concert

Episode 3

Episode 3: Beginnings: Dohnanyi and Poulenc in Concert

Edinburgh 70

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Vintage Edinburgh as Erno Dohnanyi plays Dohnanyi and Poulenc performs a new song cycle.

Composer Erno Dohnanyi plays his own compositions for solo piano and Francis Poulenc performs his song cycle Le Travail du Peintre.

Gems from the archives, Erno Dohnanyi plays his own compositions for solo piano and Francis Poulenc and his long time collaborator Pierre Bernac perform his song cycle Le Travail du Peintre inspired by Eluard's poems about painters. And representing living composers, the programme features Steve Reich's quartet written for the Scottish master percussionist Colin Currie, who has championed his work with his ensemble. 

Dohnanyi: Variations on a Hungarian Folk Tune; Pastorale (Hungarian Christmas Song); Adagio from Ruralia Hungarica; Capriccio, Op 23 No 3
Poulenc: Le Travail du peintre 
Reich: Quartet for two vibraphones and two pianos

Erno Dohnanyi, piano
Pierre Bernac, baritone
Francis Poulenc, piano
Colin Currie, percussion
Sam Walton, percussion
Simon Crawford-Phillips, piano
Philip Moore, piano 
 
Producer Gavin McCollum.

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.

Series of concerts celebrating the rich history of performance at the Edinburgh

Series of concerts celebrating the rich history of performance at the Edinburgh International Festival as it marks 70 years

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