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Live and recorded concerts from all over the UK. Includes the Wigmore chamber music series

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

Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: New Generation Artists at The Sage Gateshead

Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: New Generation Artists at The Sage Gateshead: Episode 1: Ben Johnson, Tom Primrose

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Episode 1: Ben Johnson, Tom Primrose

New Generation Artists at The Sage Gateshead

Ben Johnson, Tom Primrose

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Ben Johnson sings music by Poulenc, Roussel, Oldham and Britten at The Sage Gateshead.

This week's Lunchtime Concerts feature some of Radio 3's New Generation Artists at The Sage Gateshead. Today, tenor Ben Johnson sings music by Poulenc, Roussel, Oldham and Britten.

This week's Lunchtime Concerts come from The Sage Gateshead, with performances by some of Radio 3's current New Generation Artists. In today's broadcast, the tenor Ben Johnson and pianist Tom Primrose perform one of Francis Poulenc's best-loved song-cycles: "Tel jour, telle nuit" alongside Benjamin Britten's moving setting of eight poems by Thomas Hardy: "Winter Words". The programme also includes some less well-known songs from Chinese poems by Albert Roussel and Arthur Oldham. 

Poulenc: Tel jour, telle nuit
Roussel: Amoureux séparés, Op.12'2
Roussel: Des fleurs font une broderie, Op.35'1
Oldham: 5 Chinese Lyrics
Britten: Winter Words

Ben Johnson (tenor) / Tom Primrose (piano).

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.

Concerts given at The Sage Gateshead by some of Radio 3's current New Generation Artists

Series of concerts given at The Sage Gateshead by some of Radio 3's current New Generation Artists

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