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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: Glenarm Festival of Voice: Saint-Saëns, Milhaud, Honegger and Ravel

Glenarm Festival of Voice: Saint-Saëns, Milhaud, Honegger and Ravel

BBC Radio 3 - Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert, Glenarm Festival of Voice: Saint-Saëns, Milhaud, Honegger and Ravel

Chamber music performances from the NI Opera Festival of Voice 2019 in Glenarm, Co Antrim.

Another chance to hear performances by soprano Siobhan Stagg, mezzo Ema Nikolovska and baritone Julien Van Mellaerts at the Northern Ireland Opera Festival of Voice 2019.

Another chance to hear a series of recitals from Northern Ireland Opera's Festival of Voice 2019, recorded at St Patrick's Church of Ireland in Glenarm, Co Antrim. 

John Toal introduces accompanist Joseph Middleton with the Australian soprano, Siobhan Stagg, the Canadian-Macedonian mezzo Ema Nikolovska (a Radio 3 New Generation Artist), and the New Zealand baritone Julien Van Mellaerts in a programme celebrating composers active in Paris in the 1920s – a musical melting pot, with illustrious composers, and some up-and-coming ones, living side by side.

Today’s programme includes song by Saint-Saëns, Milhaud, Honegger and Ravel.

Poulenc: Banalités	
Honegger: Trois chanson de la petite sirène	
Milhaud: Catalogue de fleurs
Ema Nikolovska, mezzo-soprano
Joseph Middleton, piano	

Saint-Saëns: Marquise, vous souvenez-vous?; La Coccinelle; Le Rossignol; La Brise; Tournoiement; Guitares et Mandolines
Julien Van Mellaerts, baritone 
Joseph Middleton, piano

Hahn: À Chloris; Si mes vers avaient des ailes; L'Heure exquise
Nadia Boulanger: Prière 
Ravel: Kaddisch   	
Siobhan Stagg, soprano 
Joseph Middleton, piano

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