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Live and recorded concerts from all over the United Kingdom. Also includes the flagship Wigmore chamber music series.

Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Big Chamber Weekend: British Favourites

Sean Shibe, Mark Simpson, Trish Clowes

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Mark Simpson and friends perform Ireland, Maxwell Davies, Howells and Simpson.

The Radio 3 Big Chamber Weekend from Saffron Hall in Essex presents Mark Simpson and friends, today performing Ireland, Maxwell Davies, Howells and Simpson.

Tom McKinney continues a week of lunchtime concerts from the Radio 3 Big Chamber Weekend recorded at Saffron Hall in Essex, which brings the composer and virtuoso clarinettist Mark Simpson together with his friends in some of the music he loves best, played alongside his own chamber-music works. Today, he plays some of his favourite chamber music by British composers, from Ireland to Howells.

Mark Simpson is a former BBC Young Musician of the Year and Radio 3 New Generation Artist.

Presented by Tom McKinney.

IRELAND	               
Fantasy Sonata                                                  	
Mark Simpson (clarinet)
Richard Uttley (piano)

SIMPSON   	            	
Night Music					
Leonard Elschenbroich (cello)
Richard Uttley (piano)

MAXWELL DAVIES	
Trumpet Sonata 				
Simon Höfele (trumpet)
Richard Uttley (piano)

HOWELLS		
Rhapsodic Quintet				
Mark Simpson (clarinet)
Navarra String Quartet


Elizabeth Arno (producer)

Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Big Chamber Weekend

Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

Tom McKinney presents the Radio 3 Big Chamber Weekend recorded at Saffron Hall in Essex

Tom McKinney presents the Radio 3 Big Chamber Weekend recorded at Saffron Hall in Essex.

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