Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

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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: Nordic Tales

Wigmore Hall: Elena Urioste

Nordic Tales

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Award-winning tenor Alessandro Fisher sings Grieg and Delius at Wigmore Hall, London.

From Wigmore Hall, Radio 3 New Generation Artist Alessandro Fisher is joined by world-renowned accompanist Roger Vignoles to sing Schumann, Grieg, Delius and de Frumerie.

From Wigmore Hall, London, Radio 3 New Generation Artist Alessandro Fisher is joined by world-renowned accompanist Roger Vignoles for a programme of music steeped in Nordic folklore by Schumann, Grieg, Delius and the Swedish composer and pianist Gunnar de Frumerie, whose song cycle 'Songs of the Heart' sets the poetry of Nobel Prize winner Pär Lagerkvist. 

Recorded at Wigmore Hall, 16th March 2020.
Presented by Andrew McGregor.

Robert Schumann: 
5 songs on texts by Hans Christian Andersen, Op 40

Edvard Grieg: 
To brune øjne & Jeg elsker dig (The heart's melodies, Op 5)
En svane, Op 25 No 2
Med en vandlilie, Op 25 No 4
Prinsessen
Fra Monte Pincio, Op 39 No  1

Frederick Delius:
Evening Voices
Sweet Venevil
The Nightingale & Longing (Five Songs from the Norwegian)

Gunnar de Frumerie: 
Songs of the heart, Op 27

Alessandro Fisher (tenor)
Roger Vignoles (piano)

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