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: Christian Lindberg and Roland Pöntinen

Christian Lindberg and Roland Pöntinen

BBC Radio 3 - Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert, Christian Lindberg and Roland Pöntinen

Christian Lindberg and Roland Pontinen perform works by Hindemith, Weber and themselves.

Swedish trombonist Christian Lindberg and pianist Roland Pontinen perform live from Wigmore Hall. Their programme includes works by Hindemith, Weber and themselves.

Andrew McGregor presents the Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert live from Wigmore Hall in London, today featuring two top Swedish soloists: trombonist Christian Lindberg and pianist Roland Pöntinen.  Alongside Hindemith's 1941 sonata and the brooding Romance supposedly composed by Weber, each artist contributes one of his own works, Lindberg a trombone solo and Pöntinen a work for piano.


PAUL HINDEMITH
Sonata for trombone and piano

CARL MARIA VON WEBER
Romance

CHRISTIAN LINDBERG
Land of the Rising Sun

ROLAND PONTINEN
Prélude d'automne

TCHAIKOVSKY, arr. Christian Lindberg/Roland Pöntinen
Nutcracker Suite

Christian Lindberg (trombone)
Roland Pöntinen (piano)

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Christian Lindberg and Roland Pöntinen

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