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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: St Magnus International Festival

Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: St Magnus International Festival: Episode 2

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St Magnus International Festival

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Highlights from the St Magnus Festival on Orkney with Michael Butten and Red Note Ensemble

Highlights from the 2018 St Magnus International Festival, with guitarist Michael Butten performing Bach and Red Note Ensemble playing a Haydn trio for flute, violin and cello.

Highlights from St Magnus International Festival around Orkney with guitarist, Michael Butten performing works by Legnani, (Paganini's favourite guitarist), the Catalan 20th century composer Roberto Gerhard and one of Bach's great Sonatas and Partitas which has been borrowed from the violin repertoire by many guitarists. The Red Note Ensemble feature playing one of Haydn's London trios arranged for flute, violin and cello and the programme is rounded off with a light-hearted encore arranged by Tom Poster drawing on his love of the American songbook.

Legnani - Fantasia in A Op 19
Gerhard - Fantasia
Haydn - Trio Hob IV: 4
JS Bach - Violin Sonata No 3 
Gershwin arr. Poster - They can't take that away from me

Michael Butten, guitar
Red Note Ensemble:
Robert Irvine, cello
Ruth Morley, flute
Tom Hankey, violin
Tom Poster, piano
Elena Urioste, violin
Ensemble Perpetuo.

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.

Highlights from the 2018 St Magnus International Festival on Orkney.

Highlights from the 2018 St Magnus International Festival on Orkney, the UK's most northerly classical music festival.

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