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: Pieter Wispelwey and Paolo Giacometti

Pieter Wispelwey and Paolo Giacometti

BBC Radio 3 - Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert, Pieter Wispelwey and Paolo Giacometti

Live from Wigmore Hall, a cello recital with music by Schubert, Chopin and Prokofiev.

Much admired as a duo on recordings as well as live, cellist Pieter Wispelwey and his pianist partner Paolo Giacometti perform a major work by Schubert (an arrangement of a piece written in 1817 for violin and piano) and Prokofiev’s late sonata, composed in 1949 for Mstislav Rostropovich.

Live from London's Wigmore Hall
Presented by Andrew McGregor

Schubert: Sonata in A D574 'Duo' (arranged by Pieter Wispelwey for cello and piano)
Chopin: Prelude in B minor Op 28 No 6 (arranged by Pieter Wispelwey for cello and piano)
Chopin: Prelude in A minor Op 28 No 2 (arranged by Pieter Wispelwey for cello and piano)
Prokofiev: Cello Sonata in C, Op 119

Pieter Wispelwey (cello)
Paolo Giacometti (piano)

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