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: Brentano Quartet

Brentano Quartet

BBC Radio 3 - Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert, Brentano Quartet

Live from Wigmore Hall, including Haydn's 'Bird' & Mozart's 'Hoffmeister' string quartets.

Live from Wigmore Hall, including Haydn's 'Bird' and Mozart's 'Hoffmeister' string quartets.

Two masterworks from the classical era: Haydn’s 'Bird' Quartet (1781), so-called because of the repeated notes the violin plays at the very opening; coupled with Mozart's The String Quartet in D major, K. 499 (1786), written for his good friend, the publisher Franz Anton Hoffmeister. 

Live from Wigmore Hall, London
Presented by Hannah French

Haydn: String Quartet in C, Op 33 No 3 'The Bird'
Mozart: String Quartet No 20 in D, K499 'Hoffmeister'

Brentanto Quartet

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