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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: Cheltenham Festival 2017: Rachmaninov and Schubert

BBC Symphony Chorus

Rachmaninov and Schubert

Cheltenham Festival 2017

BBC Radio 3 - Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert, Cheltenham Festival 2017, Rachmaninov and Schubert

Fiona Talkington introduces works by Rachmaninov and Schubert.

Fiona Talkington introduces trios by Rachmaninov and Schubert performed by the Gould Trio and the Nash Ensemble.

Fiona Talkington introduces more highlights from the 2017 Cheltenham Music Festival. In today's programme, the Gould Trio tackle Rachmaninov's epic Trio élégiaque No 2 - written in memory of Tchaikovsky - and members of the Nash Ensemble perform Schubert's String Trio D471.

Schubert: String Trio in B flat, D471
Nash Ensemble

Rachmaninov: Trio élégiaque No 2 in D minor, Op. 9 
Gould Trio.

Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Cheltenham Festival 2017

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.

Fiona Talkington introduces highlights from the 2017 Cheltenham Music Festival

Fiona Talkington introduces highlights from the 2017 Cheltenham Music Festival, performed by members of BBC Radio 3's New Generation Artists scheme

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