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Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Radio 3 New Generation Artists

Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Radio 3 New Generation Artists: Episode 2: Henk Neven, Mahan Esfahani

Henk Neven, Mahan Esfahani

Episode 2

Episode 2: Henk Neven, Mahan Esfahani

Radio 3 New Generation Artists

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Henk Neven (baritone) performs Liszt and Mahan Esfahani (harpsichord) performs Bach.

Henk Neven (baritone) in Liszt: Im Rhein im Schone Strome; Ein Fichtenbau; Es muss ein wunderbares; Freudvoll und Leidvoll. Mahan Esfahani (harpsichord) in Bach: Partita No 4.

Now entering its second decade, Radio 3's New Generation Artist scheme exists to provide concert and recording opportunites to some of the world's finest younger musicians. The scheme's alumni include such major names as Paul Lewis, Alice Coote, Janine Jansen and the Belcea and Jerusalem string quartets.

In the second of four lunchtime programmes featuring studio and concert performances by current Radio 3 New Generation Artists, Dutch baritone Henk Neven performs songs by Liszt, and Iranian-born harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani plays Bach's Partita No. 4 in D 

Full programme:

Liszt: Im Rhein im SchÃ¶nen Strome; Ein Fichtenbaum (1860 version); Es muss ein Wunderbares sein; Freudvoll und Leidvoll (1860 version)
Die VÃ¤tergruft 
Henk Neven (baritone), Hans Eijsackers (piano)

Bach: Partita No. 4 in D major, BWV828
Mahan Esfahani (harpsichord).

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.

Studio and concert performances by Radio 3 New Generation Artists of the 2008/10 intake

Series of concerts featuring studio and concert performances given by Radio 3 New Generation Artists of the 2008/10 intake

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