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Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: St Magnus Festival 2017

Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: St Magnus Festival 2017: Episode 1: St Magnus International Festival: Trondheim Soloists

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St. Magnus International Festival: Trondheim Soloists

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Episode 1: St Magnus International Festival: Trondheim Soloists

St Magnus Festival 2017

St Magnus International Festival: Trondheim Soloists

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The Trondheim Soloists play Bach and Schoenberg at St Magnus Cathedral, Kirkwall, Orkney.

The Trondheim Soloists play movements from Bach's Goldberg Variations and Schoenberg's Verklarte Nacht at St Magnus Cathedral, Kirkwall in Orkney.

The first of four lunchtime concerts from the St. Magnus International Festival, recorded in the stunning 12th-century St Magnus Cathedral in Kirkwall. Norway's foremost string ensemble, The Trondheim Soloists, play movements from Bach's Goldberg Variations arranged for strings by Dmitry Sitkovetsky and Arnold Schoenberg's lustrous tone poem, Verklärte Nacht.

J.S. Bach: Movements from The Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 (arr. Dmitry Sitkovetsky)
Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht, Op. 4

Trondheim Soloists.
Director: Oyvind Gimse


Presenter: Kate Molleson
Producer: Laura Metcalfe

Photo credit: L Burgher.

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.

Recordings taken from the St Magnus International Festival, introduced by Kate Molleson.

A series of recordings taken from the St Magnus International Festival, introduced by Kate Molleson.

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