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Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Mananan Festival and Manchester Pride 2012

Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Mananan Festival and Manchester Pride 2012: Episode 4

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Mananan Festival and Manchester Pride 2012

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Katie Derham presents music by Ireland, Britten and Tchaikovsky.

Presented by Katie Derham. With soprano Ruby Hughes in Britten folk songs, baritone Roderick Williams in music by Ireland and the Heath Quartet in Tchaikovsky's String Quartet No 3.

This week's Lunchtime Concerts come from the 2012 Mananan Festival and Manchester Pride Fringe. The concerts were recorded at the Erin Arts Centre in Port Erin on the Isle of Man, and at the Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall in Manchester. Today you can hear soprano Ruby Hughes singing a selection Britten's folksong arrangements, The Heath Quartet playing Tchaikovsky's 3rd string quartet, and three songs by John Ireland performed by baritone Roderick Williams' with pianist Susie Allan.

Ireland Great Things
Ireland Summer Schemes 
Ireland Weathers
Roderick Williams (baritone) / Susie Allan (piano)

Britten Ca' the Yowes
Britten Sweet Polly Oliver
Britten Come you not from Newcastle 
Britten The last rose of summer 
Britten Oliver Cromwell 
Ruby Hughes (soprano) with Julius Drake (piano)

Tchaikovsky String Quartet No.3 in E flat minor.

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Highlights from the 2012 Mananan Festival and Manchester Pride Fringe

Highlights from the 2012 Mananan Festival and Manchester Pride Fringe, which took place at the Erin Arts Centre in Port Erin on the Isle of Man, and at the Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall in Manchester

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