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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: The Belcea Quartet performs Haydn and Britten

The Belcea Quartet performs Haydn and Britten

BBC Radio 3 - Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert, The Belcea Quartet performs Haydn and Britten

Live from Wigmore Hall, London. The Belcea Quartet plays Haydn and Britten

Live from Wigmore Hall, London. The Belcea Quartet plays Haydn's String Quartet in D minor, Op 76 No 2, 'Fifths', and Britten's String Quartet No 3 in G, Op 94.

Live from Wigmore Hall, London. The Belcea String Quartet celebrate the 100th anniversary of the great music critic and analyst Hans Keller with Haydn's turbulent Quartet Op 76 No 2 (known as 'The Fifths') and Britten's Quartet No. 3, with its strong thematic and atmospheric links to his final opera Death in  Venice.

Presented by Sara Mohr-Pietsch.

Haydn: String Quartet in D minor, Op 76 No 2 (Fifths)
Britten: String Quartet No 3

Belcea String Quartet

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