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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Music: Classical: Chamber & Recital

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: Meta4

Meta4

BBC Radio 3 - Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert, Meta4

Live from Wigmore Hall, string quartet Meta4 play Beach, Barber and Nagaraja.

Live from Wigmore Hall, Finnish string quartet Meta4 play a programme dating from the Baroque (Purcell), via Beach and Barber, to the present day with Krishna Nagaraja's Stringar.

Founded in 2001, the Finnish quartet Meta4 was winning international prizes within three years and in 2008 joined the BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists scheme. This distinctive programme includes works dating from the Baroque (Purcell), via Amy Beach and Samuel Barber, right up to the present day with a work by violinist, violist, arranger and composer Krishna Nagaraja that draws on Nordic folk traditions.

Live from Wigmore Hall, London
Presented by Andrew McGregor

Henry Purcell: Fantasia a4 No 7 in C minor, Z738
Amy Beach: String Quartet, Op 89
Samuel Barber: String Quartet, Op 11 - Molto adagio
Krishna Nagaraja: Stringar

Meta4 (string quartet)

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.

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