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A Poet's Echo

BBC Radio 3
on BBC Radio 3

'Let well-tuned words
Amaze
With harmony divine' (Thomas Campion )
A sequence exploring the connection between words and music.
Britten Hymn to St Cecilia
BBC Northern Singers/ Stephen Wilkinson
9.46 Mendelssohn
Overture:
The Fair Melusina
Montreal SO/Dutoit
10.10 Delius Brigg Fair: an English Rhapsody RPO/Beecham
10.43 Bridge There Is a Willow Grows Aslant a Brook: ECO/Tate
11.05 Si bel ius Prelude and Suite No 1
(The Tempest)
Gothenburg SO/Jarvi
11.35 Walton The Twelve
BBC Northern Singers/ Stephen Wilkinson
Jonathan Bielby (organ). With settings of Auden by Douglas Young , Rudolf Escher and Britten and songs by Campion and Dowland, performed by Stephen Varcoe and Nigel North. Producer Paul Hindmarsh

Contributors

Unknown:
Thomas Campion
Singers:
Stephen Wilkinson
Singers:
Stephen Wilkinson
Singers:
Jonathan Bielby
Unknown:
Douglas Young
Unknown:
Rudolf Escher
Unknown:
Stephen Varcoe
Unknown:
Nigel North.
Producer:
Paul Hindmarsh
Source: Radio Times

BBC Radio 3

About BBC Radio 3

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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