Original version

BBC Radio 3 is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 30th September 1967. It replaced Third Programme.

BBC Radio 3

Radio 3

Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Performances & Events

Music: Classical: Chamber & Recital

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: Radio 3 Big Chamber Weekend

Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Radio 3 Big Chamber Weekend: Episode 4: Big Chamber Weekend - Hull 2017 - 4 of 4

Music: Classical

Big Chamber Weekend - Hull 2017 - 4 of 4

Episode 4

Episode 4: Big Chamber Weekend - Hull 2017 - 4 of 4

Radio 3 Big Chamber Weekend

BBC Radio 3 - Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert, Radio 3 Big Chamber Weekend, Big Chamber Weekend - Hull 2017 - 4 of 4Close menu

Chamber music and songs that reflects Hull during times of conflict.

Petroc Trelawny presents a concert from R3's Big Chamber Weekend at Hull City of Culture 2017. Chamber music and songs by Ireland, Gurney, Shostakovich and Vaughan Williams.

This week's Lunchtime Concerts were recorded at Radio 3's Big Chamber Weekend as part of Hull City of Culture 2017. The University of Hull's Middleton Hall was the venue, and performers included the Sacconi Quartet, tenor James Gilchrist and pianist Anna Tilbrook, who also curated the series.
Today's concert reflects Hull during times of conflict - a city that suffered great losses during both of the world wars.

Ireland: Spring Sorrow
Gurney: In Flanders
Gurney: By a Bierside
James Gilchrist (tenor) / Anna Tilbrook (piano)

Shostakovich: String Quartet No.8 in C minor, Op.110
Sacconi Quartet 

Vaughan Williams: On Wenlock Edge
James Gilchrist (tenor) / Sacconi Quartet / Anna Tilbrook (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.

Music from the Radio 3 Big Chamber Weekend at Saffron Hall in Saffron Walden

Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents music from the Radio 3 Big Chamber Weekend at Saffron Hall in Saffron Walden

Accessibility links

Programme Index

Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Radio 3 Big Chamber Weekend

Episode 4: Big Chamber Weekend - Hull 2017 - 4 of 4

Genres

Formats

Brand

Series

BBC Radio 3

About BBC Radio 3