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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: Mendelssohn's String Octet

Music: Classical

Wigmore Hall Mondays: Elias and Navarra string quartets

Mendelssohn's String Octet

BBC Radio 3 - Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert, Mendelssohn's String Octet

From Wigmore Hall, the Elias and Navarra Quartets combine for Mendelssohn's String Octet.

From Wigmore Hall in London, Andrew McGregor presents Sally Beamish's Reed Stanzas and Mendelssohn's Octet performed by two British-based string quartets, the Elias and Navarra.

From Wigmore Hall, London, two fantastic British-based quartets join forces in Mendelssohn's Octet, the teenage prodigy's miraculous masterpiece. The Elias String Quartet opens with Sally Beamish's beautiful work for the ensemble, inspired by Hebridean landscapes and poetic imagery.

Introduced by Andrew McGregor.

Sally Beamish: String Quartet No 3 'Reed Stanzas'
Mendelssohn: Octet in E flat major, Op 20

Elias String Quartet
Navarra String Quartet

First broadcast on 25 June 2018

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