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Live and recorded concerts from all over the United Kingdom. Also includes the flagship Wigmore chamber music series.

Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Ulster Hall

Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Ulster Hall: Episode 1: Ailish Tynan, Iain Burnside

Music: Classical

Episode 1

Episode 1: Ailish Tynan, Iain Burnside

Ulster Hall

Ailish Tynan, Iain Burnside

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Soprano Ailish Tynan and pianist Iain Burnside in a recital of 19th and 20th-century song.

Ailish Tynan (soprano) and Iain Burnside (piano) perform music by Mendelssohn, Ives, Hughes, Duparc, Barber, Szymanowski, Cage and Moeran at the Ulster Hall in Belfast.

Chamber Music in the Ulster Hall 1/4
The Ulster Hall is 150 years old this year and has been renowned as a concert venue for some of the finest musicians visiting Belfast.

Today soprano, Ailish Tynan with pianist Iain Burnside present a song recital celebrating Irish texts: Composers like Barber and Symanowski have been inspired by the texts of James Joyce, while Herbert Hughes, Benjamin Britten, Mendelssohn, Duparc and Charles Ives have each set texts by Thomas Moore. Barber's Hermit songs go back to Irish texts dating from the 8th - 13th centuries 

Ailish Tynan soprano
Iain Burnside piano

Felix Mendelssohn (1809 - 1847) Der Blumenkranz 

Charles Ives (1874 - 1954) A night thought

Herbert Hughes (1882 - 1937) Oh breath not his name

Henri Duparc (1848 - 1933) Élégie 

Benjamin Britten ( 1913 - 1976) The last rose of summer

Samuel Barber (1910 - 1981) from Hermit Songs 
St. Ita's Vision 
The Heavenly Banquet 
Desire for Hermitage 

Karol Szymanowski (1882 - 1937) 4 songs of James Joyce, op 54 

Samuel Barber ((1910 - 1981) Nuvoletta 

John Cage (1912 - 1992 The Wonderful Widow of Eighteen Springs

EJ Moeran (1894-1950) 3 folksongs from County Kerry 
The Roving Dingle Boy
The Lost Lover
The Tinker's Daughter.

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Series of concerts given at the Ulster Hall in Belfast

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