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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: Ludlow English Song Weekend: 14/05/2019

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14/05/2019

Ludlow English Song Weekend

BBC Radio 3 - Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert, Ludlow English Song Weekend, 14/05/2019

A concert from the 2019 Ludlow English Song Weekend featuring music by Ireland and Woolf.

A week of Lunchtime Concerts from the 2019 Ludlow English Song Weekend, with artistic director Iain Burnside at the piano. Today's concert features music by Ireland and Alex Woolf.

This week's Lunchtime Concerts come from the 2019 Ludlow English Song Weekend, recorded at St Laurence's Church in Ludlow.  Artistic director Iain Burnside is at the piano, with singers from the Harewood Young Artists Scheme run by English National Opera: Rowan Pierce, Soraya Mafi, Elgan Llyr Thomas, William Morgan, David Webb and Alex Otterburn alongside violinist Michael Foyle.

Today's concert features soprano Rowan Pierce, tenor Elgan Llyr-Thomas, violinist Michael Foyle and pianist Iain Burnside in music by Muriel Herbert, Morfydd Owen, Elaine Hugh-Jones, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Janet Hamilton and a new commission by Alex Woolf.

Muriel Herbert - Loveliest of Trees
Morfydd Owen - When I came Last from Ludlow
Elaine Hugh-Jones -  Queen of Air and Darkness 
Elgan Llyr-Thomas (tenor) / Iain Burnside (piano)

Vaughan Williams - Along the Field
Rowan Pierce (soprano) /Michael Foyle (violin)

Janet Hamilton - The Cherry Tree
Rebecca Clarke - Eight o'clock
Janet Hamilton - With rue my heart is laden
Elgan Llyr-Thomas (tenor) / Rowan Pierce (soprano) / Iain Burnside (piano)

Alex Woolf - Quiet London 
Elgan Llyr-Thomas (tenor) / Rowan Pierce (soprano) / Iain Burnside (piano)

John Ireland - The Land of Lost Content.
Elgan Llyr-Thomas (tenor) / Iain Burnside (piano)

Vaughan Williams - I sowed my seeds of love
Vaughan Williams - Over the Water
Vaughan Williams - If I were a queen
Rowan Pierce (soprano) / Elgan Llyr-Thomas (tenor) / Michael Foyle (violin) / Iain Burnside (piano)

Presented by Ian Skelly

Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Ludlow English Song Weekend

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Music from Ludlow English Song Weekend, with artistic director Iain Burnside at the piano.

This week's Lunchtime Concerts come from the 2019 Ludlow English Song Weekend, recorded at St Laurence's Church in Ludlow. Artistic director Iain Burnside is at the piano.

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