Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

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Live and recorded concerts from all over the UK. Includes the Wigmore chamber music series

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Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Pianist Stephen Hough, live at London's Wigmore Hall

Pianist Stephen Hough live at London's Wigmore Hall

Pianist Stephen Hough, live at London's Wigmore Hall

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Music by Bach (arr Busoni) and Schumann, live at London's Wigmore Hall.

Andrew McGregor introduces acclaimed British pianist Stephen Hough in music by Bach (arr Busoni) and Schumann.

Every weekday in June, as part of BBC Arts’ Culture in Quarantine initiative, Radio 3 broadcasts a live Lunchtime Concert from London's Wigmore Hall. Taking place without an audience present, this series of twenty recitals - the first live concert broadcasts since the start of lockdown - features some of the UK's finest instrumentalists and singers in music from the 16th century to the present day. 

To begin the series, Andrew McGregor introduces the acclaimed British pianist Stephen Hough in music by Bach (arr. Busoni) and Schumann.

JS Bach, arr. Busoni Chaconne from Partita No 2 in D minor for solo violin, BWV 1004
Schumann Fantasie in C, Op 17

Photo: Stephen Hough credit Sim Canetty-Clarke

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Pianist Stephen Hough, live at London's Wigmore Hall

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