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: Manchester Connections: Adam Walker and Huw Watkins

Manchester Connections: Adam Walker and Huw Watkins

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Adam Walker and Huw Watkins perform music by composers connected with Manchester.

Linton Stephens continues his Manchester Connections series. Flautist Adam Walker and pianist Huw Watkins perform a programme of works by composers connected with the city.

Linton Stephens continues a week of specially recorded concerts given by musicians with a Manchester connection. Today, former students of Chetham's School of Music, the flautist Adam Walker and composer-pianist Huw Watkins, join forces in a programme of music composed by some of Manchester's best-known luminaries, from Peter Maxwell Davies to Huw Watkins himself.

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Suite de Ballet
ALEXANDER GOEHR Variations for flute and piano
HUW WATKINS Capriccio
PETER MAXWELL DAVIES Solita
YORK BOWEN Sonata

Adam Walker (flute)
Huw Watkins (piano)

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