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Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: City of London Festival 2011

Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: City of London Festival 2011: Episode 5: Ben Johnson, James Baillieu

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Episode 5: Ben Johnson, James Baillieu

City of London Festival 2011

Ben Johnson, James Baillieu

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Ben Johnson (tenor), James Baillieu (piano) in Schumann, Liszt, Grainger, Quilter, Grieg.

Ben Johnson (tenor) and James Baillieu (piano) perform songs by Schumann, Liszt, Grainger, Quilter and Grieg at the 2011 City of London Festival.

Another recital featuring Radio 3 New Generation Artists at the 2011 City of London Festival. In a recital recorded in the church of St. Margaret, Lothbury, tenor Ben Johnson (with pianist James Bailleu) sings songs by Schumann, Liszt, Quilter and Grieg. He also includes some remarkable music by by Australian-born Percy Grainger, reflecting the festival's theme of music from the antipodes.

Ben Johnson (tenor)
James Baillieu (piano)

Schumann - Morgens steh' ich auf und frage; Im Rhein; 
Anfangs wollt' ich fast verzagen; Du bist wie eine Blume 
Liszt - Morgens steh' ich auf und frage; S.290; Anfangs wollt' ich fast verzagen; Du bist wie eine Blume; Im Rhein 
Grainger - Four settings from Songs of the North: 
My Faithful Fond One;The Woman Are A Gane Wud; O'er the Morr; Fair Young Mary 
Quilter - (from Seven Elizabethan Lyrics): 
Weep You No More; The Faitheless Shepherdess; By a fountainside; Fair house of Joy 
Grainger - The Power of Love (Kjaerlighedn's Styrke) 
Grieg - Zur Rosenzeit; Ein Traum 
Grainger - (from The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border): 
The Twa Corbies; Lord Maxwell's Goodnight.

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Concerts given by Radio 3 New Generation Artists at the 2011 City of London Festival

Series of concerts given by Radio 3 New Generation Artists at the 2011 City of London Festival

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