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    Radio 3 at Bath International Music Festival
    21 May - 7 June

    Great Voices of Bulgaria

    Venues for the Bath Festival include the famous Assembly Rooms and Bath Abbey. The programming by artistic director Joanna McGregor reflects her own cross-cultural interests.

      Radio 3 Lunchtime Concerts at 1pm

      Alison Balsom credit Richard Dunkley, EMI Classics
      Tuesday 3 June

      Alison Balsom Ensemble 
      Alison Balsom       - trumpet
      Magnus Johnston - violin
      Marie Macleod - cello
      Tom Poster - harpsichord/piano

      Music by Vivaldi, Neruda, Purcell, Handel, Goedicke, Ligeti, Falla and Piazzolla

      Concert:       24 May, Assembly Rooms

        Adrian Brendel (cellist)
        Wednesday 4 June

        Elias String Quartet
        Adrian Brendel         - cello

        Music by Mendelssohn, Britten and Schubert

        Concert:         26 May, Assembly Rooms

          Aronowitz Ensemble
          Thursday 5 June

          Aronowitz Ensemble 
          Magnus Johnston           - violin
          Nadia Wijzenbeek - violin
          Tom Hankey - viola
          Marie Macleod - cello
          Tom Poster - piano/harmonium

          Music by Dvorak, Ravel and Schumann

          Concert:           1 June, Assembly Rooms

            Yevgeny Sudbin
            Friday 6 June

            Yevgeny Sudbin - piano

            Music by Haydn, Chopin, Scriabin and Ravel

            Concert:             3 June, Assembly Rooms

              Radio 3 The Choir, Sundays at 6.30pm

              Great Voices of Bulgaria
              Sunday 22 June

              The Great Voices of Bulgaria
              Ilia Mihaylov               - conductor

              Bulgarian and Russian Orthodox Chants; Bulgarian folk music

              Concert: 31 May, Bath Abbey

                Radio 3 Performance on 3 at 7pm

                Joanna MacGregor
                Friday 30 May

                Britten Sinfonia
                Diego Masson                 - conductor
                Joanna MacGregor - piano
                Cynthia Millar - ondes martenot
                Dhafer Youssef - voice and oud
                Bath Camerata
                Wells Cathedral School Chamber Choir

                Music by Dhafer Youssef (world premiere, BBC Radio 3 commission), Bach and Messiaen

                Concert: 28 May, Bath Abbey

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