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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: Welsh Festivals: Welsh Festivals: Ravel and Debussy

Welsh Festivals: Ravel and Debussy

Welsh Festivals

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Ravel and Debussy played by pianist Freddy Kempf and the Marmen String Quartet.

Ravel's Le tombeau de Couperin played by pianist Freddy Kempf at the North Wales Music Festival and Debussy's String Quartet in G performed by the Marmens at Machynlleth Festival.

Wales hosts an abundance of music Festivals in some of the UK's most breathtaking settings.  This week Christopher Cook introduces highlights from three of its Summer Festivals, all situated in locations of outstanding natural beauty.  Later in the week we'll visit the pretty border town of Presteigne, but the series begins at the North Wales International Music Festival in St. Asaph where pianist Freddy Kempf enchanted audiences in its ancient cathedral with Ravel's homage to his baroque antecedent. After that we head to the historic town of Machynlleth for an evocatively drawn performance of Debussy's Quartet, given by the Marmen Quartet. 

Ravel: Le Tombeau de Couperin
Freddy Kempf, piano 

Debussy: String Quartet in G 
Marmen Quartet
Johannes Marmen, violin
Ricky Gore, violin
Bryony Gibson-Cornish, viola
Steffan Morris. cello

Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Welsh Festivals

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.

Christopher Cook introduces highlights from three Welsh festivals held in summer 2018

Christopher Cook introduces highlights from three of 2018's summer music festivals, all situated in locations of outstanding natural beauty in Wales.

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