Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

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

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: Cheltenham Music Festival 2018: Cassadó, Mozart and Saint-Saëns

Cassadó, Mozart and Saint-Saëns

Cheltenham Music Festival 2018

BBC Radio 3 - Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert, Cheltenham Music Festival 2018, Cassadó, Mozart and Saint-Saëns

Cassadó, Mozart's String Quartet, K575, and Saint-Saëns's Septet, performed in Cheltenham.

Cassadó, Mozart's String Quartet No 21 in D, K575, and Saint-Saëns's Septet, performed by members of Radio 3's New Generation Artists scheme at the 2018 Cheltenham Festival. 

Sarah Walker introduces highlights from the 2018 Cheltenham Festival performed by Radio 3's New Generation Artists in the Georgian splendour of the Pittville Pump Room.  Today Romanian cellist Andrei Ionita plays Cassadó's virtuoso Suite for Solo Cello  the American quartet The Calidores present a late quartet written by Mozart with a rich cellist very much in mind, and they are joined by Norwegian violist Eivind Ringstad, German trumpeter Simon Hofele for a performance of a rarity, Saint-Saëns's Septet with Frank Dupree taking the piano part and bassist Daniel Storer. 

Cassadó: Suite for Solo Cello   
Andre Ionita, cello 

Mozart: String Quartet No 21 in D major K. 575 
Calidore Quartet

Saint-Saëns:  Septet for trumpet, 2 violins, viola, cello, double bass & piano  
Calidore Quartet, Simon Hofele, trumpet; Daniel Storer, double bass; Frank Dupree, piano



 

Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Cheltenham Music Festival 2018

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.

Broadcasts from the 2018 Cheltenham Music Festival

Accessibility links

Programme Index

Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Cheltenham Music Festival 2018

Cassadó, Mozart and Saint-Saëns

Genres

Brand

Series

BBC Radio 3

About BBC Radio 3