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: LSO St Luke's - Bruch and Vaughan Williams: Part 4

Part 4 LSO St Luke's - Bruch and Vaughan Williams

BBC Radio 3 - Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert, LSO St Luke's - Bruch and Vaughan Williams, Part 4

Tenor Ben Johnson and the Nash Ensemble perform music by Bruch and Vaughan Williams.

RVW150: From LSO St Luke's, the Nash Ensemble play Bruch's String Quintet in A minor and, with tenor Ben Johnson, Altes lied and Russisch, plus Vaughan Williams's On Wenlock Edge.

As part of Radio 3's season Vaughan Williams Today, celebrating the 150th anniversary of his birth, another chance to hear an archive series from the Nash Ensemble performing at LSO St Luke's in London in 2017. 

The UK's leading chamber group, the Nash Ensemble, celebrate two of the most tuneful of chamber music composers, Bruch and Vaughan Williams - and their little-known connection.

Bruch: Altes Lied, Op 7 No 1; Russisch, Op 7 No 3
Bruch: String Quintet in A minor
Vaughan Williams: On Wenlock Edge
Ben Johnson (tenor)
Nash Ensemble

In 1897 the young Englishman Ralph Vaughan Williams spent an enjoyable few months in Berlin studying with the renowned German composer Max Bruch. "Bruch encouraged me," Vaughan Williams recalled, "and I had never had much encouragement before." Bruch's official testimonial for Vaughan Williams calls him "a very good musician and a talented composer"; Vaughan Williams also remembered Bruch appreciating his "ve-ry o-riginaal ideeas" - though not his harmonies, which were "rather too originell". Hearing their music together, the delightful surprise is discovering how much they had in common.

Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: LSO St Luke's - Bruch and Vaughan Williams

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The Nash Ensemble perform music by Bruch and Vaughan Williams at LSO St Luke's in London.

In a series of concerts given at LSO St Luke's in London, the Nash Ensemble perform music by Bruch and Vaughan Williams, two composers with a little-known connection.

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