Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Original version

BBC Radio 3 is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 30th September 1967. It replaced Third Programme.

BBC Radio 3

Radio 3

Performances & Events

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: Kronberg Festival (1/3)

Kronberg Festival (1/3)

BBC Radio 3 - Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert, Kronberg Festival (1/3)

Performances of music by Schumann, Saariaho and Piazzolla from the 2022 Kronberg Festival.

Chamber music from the 2022 Kronberg Festival, with a focus on music for cello solo or ensemble by Schumann, Saariaho and Piazzolla.

Sarah Walker introduces the first of three programmes this week, featuring highlights of concerts from last year's Kronberg Festival. The concerts were recorded in the newly inaugurated Casals Forum, the first climate-neutral concert hall building in Europe. There's a cello focus to all the concerts, either solo cello or in ensembles with music ranging from Schumann to Saariaho and Piazzolla.

Gardel
Por una cabeza, Tango
(Arr.cello quartet James Barralet)
Anouchka Hack, cello
Minji Kim, cello
Edward Luengo, cello
Kian Soltani, cello


Schumann:
Fantasiestücke, op. 73
Bruno Philippe, cello
Jérôme Ducros, piano

Kaija Saariaho 
Sept Papillons for cello solo
Anastasia Kobekina, cello


Giovanni Sollima (1962) 
Violoncelles, vibrez!
for 2 cellos and cello-ensemble


Piazzolla
Winter, from 'The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires'
Kian Soltani cello ensemble:
Sebastian Fritsch
Anouchka Hack
Minji Kim    
Manuel Lipstein  
Edward Luengo	
Kian Soltani
Ildikó Szabó
Alexander Warenberg


Guillaume Connesson (1970) 
Disco toccata
Ivan Karizna, cello
Anastasia Kobekina, cello

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.

Accessibility links

Programme Index

Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Kronberg Festival (1/3)

Genres

Brand

BBC Radio 3

About BBC Radio 3