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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: Great Music in Irish Houses Festival 2019 (1/4)

Great Music in Irish Houses Festival 2019 - Martinů, Lekeu and Dvorak

Great Music in Irish Houses Festival 2019 (1/4)

BBC Radio 3 - Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert, Great Music in Irish Houses Festival 2019 (1/4)

The 2019 Great Music in Irish Houses Festival, with music by Martinů, Lekeu and Dvorak.

Performances from the 2019 Great Music in Irish Houses Festival, with music by Martinu, Lekeu and Dvorak.

In our first programme from the 2019 Great Music in Irish Houses Festival, we have performances from cellist Mark Coppey and Finghin Collins, beginning with Martinů's Variations on a Slovakian Theme. Finghin is then joined by soprano Ailish Tynan and the Van Kuijk Quartet with Lekeu’s Nocturne from Trois Poèmes. And completing today’s Lunchtime Concert, the Pavel Haas Quartet with Dvorak’s last piece of chamber music written in 1895- his String Quartet No. 14 in A flat major.

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