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Celtic Twilight

BBC Radio 3
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An early tone poem by Bax, singing under the spell of Yeats "to sweeten Ireland's wrong", and a first performance of Norman Hay 's atmospheric 1921 cantata setting poems by Yeats.
Melanie Armitstead (mezzo) Stephen Roberts (baritone) Chorus of the Belfast
Philharmonic Society Ulster Orchestra, conductor John Lubbock
Bax Cathleen ni Hoolihan
Nonnan Hay The Wind among the Reeds
Repeated tomorrow 12 noon

Contributors

Unknown:
Norman Hay
Unknown:
Melanie Armitstead
Baritone:
Stephen Roberts
Conductor:
John Lubbock
Conductor:
Bax Cathleen
Source: Radio Times

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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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