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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: Wigmore Hall - Cellist Narek Hakhnazaryan and Pavel Kolesnikov

Wigmore Hall Mondays - Narek Hakhnazaryan and Pavel Kolesnikov

Wigmore Hall - Cellist Narek Hakhnazaryan and Pavel Kolesnikov

BBC Radio 3 - Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert, Wigmore Hall - Cellist Narek Hakhnazaryan and Pavel Kolesnikov

Cellist Narek Hakhnazaryan plays Schumann, Khudoyan and Mendelssohn with Pavel Kolesnikov.

Cellist Narek Hakhnazaryan and pianist Pavel Kolesnikov play Schumann, Khudoyan and Mendelssohn in a performance from 2015 at Wigmore Hall, London.

From Wigmore Hall

Cellist Narek Hakhnazaryan and Pavel Kolesnikov (piano) play Schumann, Khudoyan and Mendelssohn
Presented by Sara Mohr-Pietsch. 

Schumann: Five Pieces in Folk Style Op. 102
Adam Khudoyan: Sonata No. 1 for solo cello
Mendelssohn: Cello Sonata No. 2 in D major Op. 58
 
Narek Hakhnazaryan (cello)
Pavel Kolesnikov (piano)
 
First broadcast in 2015, two exceptional young artists, both tipped for long-term career success, perform works of great colour and vitality. Armenian cellist Narek Hakhnazaryan, a member of Radio 3's New Generation Artists scheme in 2015, made his mark in 2011 as winner of the Cello First Prize and Gold Medal at the XIV International Tchaikovsky Competition, while his Russian-born, London-based contemporary Pavel Kolesnikov achieved his international breakthrough as Laureate of the 2012 Honens Prize for Piano and has gone on to release numerous critically acclaimed recordings.

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