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Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Northern Ireland Opera Festival of Voice

Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Northern Ireland Opera Festival of Voice: Episode 2

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Episode 2

Northern Ireland Opera Festival of Voice

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Music by Guridi, Geoffrey Bush, Nelson, Philip Martin, Beethoven, Tippett and Granados.

Works by Guridi, Geoffrey Bush, Havelock Nelson, Philip Martin, Beethoven, Tippett and Granados, with mezzo-soprano Clara Mouriz, soprano Aoife Miskelly and tenor Ilker Arcayurek.

John Toal presents the second programme in this week's Lunchtime Concert series from the Northern Ireland Opera Festival of Voice, recorded at St. Patrick's Church of Ireland in Glenarm, Co. Antrim. Today's programme begins with mezzo-soprano Clara Mouriz alongside pianist Simon Lepper and the Spanish Composer Jesús Guridi's 'Tres Canciones Castellanas' based on popular Castilian melodies. Following this, Irish soprano Aoife Miskelly and pianist Will Vann present a series of songs including British composer Geoffrey Bush's setting of Shakespeare's 'It was a lover and his Lass'. New Generation Artist, tenor, Ilker Arcayürek then performs Beethoven's 'Adelaide', based on words by German poet Friedrich von Matthisson. There are arias from two different 'Midsummer' opera settings, by Britten and Tippett, performed by Aoife Miskelly. Completing the recital, Clara Mouriz returns with music from Spanish composer Enrique Granados and his setting of 'La maja de Goya', and finishing with 'La maja y el ruiseñor'. Accompanied on piano by Simon Lepper.

Guridi: Tres Canciones Castellanas
Clara Mouriz (mezzo-soprano), Simon Lepper (piano)

Geoffrey Bush: It Was a Lover and His Lass 
Nelson: Dirty Work 
Philip Martin: The Fiddler of Dooney (from Five Yeats Poems) 
Aoife Miskelly (soprano), Will Vann (piano) 

Beethoven: Adelaide, Op.46 
Ilker Arcayürek (tenor), Simon Lepper (piano)

Tippett: Bella's Makeup Aria (The Midsummer Marriage) 
Britten: Injurious Hermia (A Midsummer Night's Dream) 
Aoife Miskelly (soprano), Will Vann (piano) 

Granados: La maja de Goya
Clara Mouriz (mezzo-soprano), Simon Lepper (piano)

Granados: Oriental (from Goyescas)
Simon Lepper (piano)

Granados: La maja y el ruiseñor 
Clara Mouriz (mezzo-soprano), Simon Lepper (piano).

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John Toal presents recitals given at the Northern Ireland Opera Festival of Voice 2016

John Toal presents a series of four of recitals given at St Patrick's Church of Ireland in Glenarm, Co Antrim, as part of the Northern Ireland Opera Festival of Voice 2016

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