Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

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BBC Radio 3 is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 30th September 1967. It replaced Third Programme.

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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: Sounds of France: Music for string quartet by Debussy, Poulenc and Laurent Durupt

Music for string quartet by Debussy, Poulenc and Laurent Durupt

Sounds of France

BBC Radio 3 - Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert, Sounds of France, Music for string quartet by Debussy, Poulenc and Laurent Durupt

In this week's final concert, Quatuor Van Kuijk play Debussy and Poulenc.

Sounds of France: in this week's final concert, Quatuor Van Kuijk play Debussy's String Quartet, an arrangement of three songs by Poulenc and Laurent Durupt's Grids for Greed.

In this week's final concert, Quatuor Van Kuijk perform Debussy's ever-popular String Quartet, an arrangement of three songs by Poulenc, and Laurent Durupt's Grids for Greed, a piece written for them and premiered at the 2017 Proms.

Introduced by Fiona Talkington.

Poulenc arr. Jean-Christophe Masson: 3 Mélodies
Laurent Durupt: Grids for Greed
Debussy: String Quartet

Quatuor Van Kuijk

Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Sounds of France

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.

Sarah Walker introduces French chamber music from the Baroque to the present day.

Sarah Walker introduces performances of French chamber music from the Baroque to the present day.

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Sounds of France

Music for string quartet by Debussy, Poulenc and Laurent Durupt

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