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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: Radio 3 Cello Festival: A wedding present

A wedding present

Radio 3 Cello Festival

BBC Radio 3 - Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert, Radio 3 Cello Festival, A wedding present

Russian cellist Anastasia Kobekina performs music by Shostakovich and Franck.

Russian cellist Anastasia Kobekina joins pianist Jean-Selim Abdelmoula for works by Shostakovich and Cesar Franck.

Young cellist Anastasia Kobekina joins pianist Jean-Selim Abdelmoula for the final recital in Radio 3’s Cello Festival in partnership with the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.  Shostakovich’s anguished cello sonata opens their recital, written at a turbulent time in the composer’s life.  Franck’s hugely popular sonata (and wedding gift for Eugene Ysaye) follows, in an arrangement that Franck himself approved for cello and piano.

Shostakovich: Cello Sonata in D minor, Op 40	
Franck: Violin Sonata in A major – arrangement for cello	

Anastasia Kobekina, cello 
Jean-Selim Abdelmoula piano





Presenter: Tom Redmond
Producer: Laura Metcalfe

Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Radio 3 Cello Festival

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.

Recitals from the Radio 3 Cello Festival at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland

Tom Redmond introduces a week of recitals from the Radio 3 Cello Festival in partnership with the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.

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