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The BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists Scheme helps to support talented musicians to reach the next stages of their careers and brings some of the world’s most promising new talent to listeners across the UK through BBC Radio 3 broadcasts.

New Generation Artists: Ashley Riches and Aleksey Semenenko

Music: Classical

Buxton Festival

21/07/2018

Ashley Riches and Aleksey Semenenko

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Kate Molleson celebrates the music-making of the BBC New Generation Artists.

Continuing Kate Molleson's series celebrating the music-making of BBC New Generation Artists, with Ukrainian violinist Aleksey Semenenko and English bass-baritone Ashley Riches.

Kate Molleson celebrates the music making of the current BBC New Generation Artists. Three of the current line-up of musicians are heard today, caught by the BBC microphones, as they embark on glittering international careers. In this second of eight Saturday programmes the Ukrainian violinist Aleksey Semenenko dazzles in a set of variations on a theme from the Barber of Seville and the English bass baritone Ashley Riches brings his understanding of poetry to Britten's masterful settings of William Blake. 

Vaughan Williams Linden Lea 
Ashley Riches (bass baritone), Anna Tilbrook (piano)

Henri Vieuxtemps Elegie 
Eivind Ringstad (viola), David Meier (piano)

Britten Songs and Proverbs of William Blake op.74 
Ashley Riches (bass baritone), Anna Tilbrook (piano)

Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco Figaro - concert transcription of 'Largo al factotum' from 'Il barbiere di Siviglia' 
Aleksey Semenenko (violin), Inna Firsova (piano)


For nearly two decades, the Radio 3 New Generation Artist Scheme has nurtured the talents of some of the world's finest instrumentalists, chamber ensembles and singers at the outset of their international careers. Each year, six or seven young musicians are offered a two year platform on which to develop their solo and chamber music careers. This includes studio recordings, engagements with the BBC Orchestras and a raft of engagements at some of the UK's leading Festivals including the BBC Proms, Bath, Cheltenham and Edinburgh Festivals among many others.

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