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New Generation Artists - a BBC scheme to nurture exceptional young talent

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 in Finzi and Mariam Batsashvili in Liszt

Ashley Riches in Finzi and Mariam Batsashvili in Liszt

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Ashley Riches sings Finzi's Hardy setting, Earth and Air and Rain

Pianist Mariam Batsashvili plays Liszt's transcendental Apres une lecture du Dante and Ashley Riches sings Finzi's Earth and Air and Rain, set to poems by Thomas Hardy.

New Generation Artists: the Georgian pianist Mariam Batsashvili gives a transcendental performance of Liszt's Après une lecture du Dante and Ashley Riches sings Finzi's Earth and Air and Rain, ten masterful setting of poems by Thomas Hardy. Also today, a cello suite by a Catalan contemporary of Pablo Casals and Debussy's sultry faun as recreated by Fritz Kreisler.     
Presented by Kate Molleson.  

Liszt	Après une lecture du Dante: Fantasia quasi Sonata	
Mariam Batsashvili (piano)

Gaspar Cassado Suite for solo cello	
Andrei Ionita (cello)
		
Finzi	 Earth and Air and Rain	
Ashley Riches (bass-baritone), Anna Tilbrook (piano)

Today's performances from these award-winning artists were recorded in concerts at Turner Sims Southampton, at the Cheltenham Festival and also in the BBC's studios,

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