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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: Beethoven and Rachmaninov

Welsh Festivals: Beethoven and Rachmaninov

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Beethoven's String Quartet in D, Op 18  No 3, and Rachmaninov's Etudes Tableaux, Op 39.

Beethoven's String Quartet No 3 in D, Op 18, played by the Marmen Quartet and Freddy Kempf performs all Rachmaninov Etudes Tableaux, Op 39, at two of Wales's summer festivals.

In today's roundup from three of Wales' summer music festivals Christopher Cook returns to the historic market town of Machynlleth, where a packed audience in the Tabernacle was treated to the Marmen Quartet and Beethoven's nod to Haydn in the third of the Opus 18 series of quartets. After that it's a final visit to the North Wales International Music Festival and St. Asaph Cathedral, where some figurative fireworks were lit, as Freddy Kempf put his stamp on Rachmaninov's virtuosic second set of Etudes Tableaux. 

Beethoven: String Quartet in D, Op.18, no.3
Marmen Quartet 
Johannes Marmen, violin
Ricky Gore, violin
Bryony Gibson-Cornish, viola
Steffan Morris. cello

Rachmaninov: Etudes Tableaux, Op.39
Freddy Kempf, piano

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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