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

Great Music in Irish Houses Festival 2019 - Brahms and Beethoven

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

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

Performances of Brahms and Beethoven from the 2019 Great Music in Irish Houses Festival.

Performances from the 2019 Great Music in Irish Houses Festival, with music by Brahms and Beethoven.

In our final visit to the 2019 Great Music in Irish Houses Festival, we have music by Brahms and Beethoven. Opening today’s concert, cellist Mark Coppey and pianist Finghin Collins perform Brahms’ Cello Sonata in E minor, written over a period of three years in the 1860s, with the piano having a more prominent role. We finish the week with the Pavel Haas Quartet and Beethoven’s String Quartet in C major, from the composer’s middle period, one of his “Razumovsky” quartets, commissioned by Count Razumovsky, the Russian ambassador to Vienna.

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