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: Perth Easter Festival (1/4)

Sunday - Tom Redmond

Perth Easter Festival (1/4)

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Steven Osborne performs Messiaen's epic Quartet for the End of Time with SCO soloists.

Steven Osborne and SCO soloists perform Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time, written by the composer while imprisoned by the Nazis and inspired by the Book of Revelations.

Pianist Steven Osborne joins SCO soloists to performs Messiaen's spiritual masterpiece, Quartet for the end of Time, written while the composer was imprisoned by the Nazis in Stalag VIII-A at Gorlitz and first performed in the camp to the other prisoners. He took his inspiration from texts in the Book of Revelations: a mighty angel, apocalyptic scenes, birdsong, heavenly silence and the end of time itself.

Messiaen: Quartet for the end of time  

Osborne/SCO players
Steven Osborne, piano
Maria Włoszczowska, violin
Maximiliano Martin, clarinet
Philip Higham, cello

Presented by Tom Redmond
Produced by Lindsay Pell

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