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: Soprano Lucy Crowe and pianist Anna Tilbrook live at London's Wigmore Hall

Soprano Lucy Crowe and pianist Anna Tilbrook live at London's Wigmore Hall

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Music by Arne, Schumann, Madeleine Dring and Berg.

Andrew McGregor introduces acclaimed British soprano Lucy Crowe in recital with pianist Anna Tilbrook. Music by Arne, Schumann, Madeleine Dring and Berg.

Every weekday in June, as part of BBC Arts’ Culture in Quarantine initiative, Radio 3 broadcasts a live Lunchtime Concert from London's Wigmore Hall. Taking place without an audience present, this series of twenty recitals - the first live concert broadcasts since the start of lockdown - features some of the UK's finest instrumentalists and singers in music from the 16th century to the present day. 

Andrew McGregor introduces the acclaimed British soprano Lucy Crowe in recital with pianist Anna Tilbrook.

Arne: O ravishing delight
Schumann: Lied der Suleika Op. 25 No. 9 from 'Myrthen'
Schumann: Meine Rose Op. 90 No. 2
Schumann: Mignon Op. 98a No. 1
Berg: 7 frühe Lieder
Britten: The Salley Gardens No. 1 from Folk Song Arrangements, Vol 1 - British Isles 
Irish air arr. Phyllis Tate: The lark in the clear air 
Traditional (Irish): She moved through the fair
Traditional (Canada): She's like the swallow
Dunhill: The Cloths of Heaven 
Gurney: Sleep No. 4 from Five Elizabethan Songs 
Vaughan Williams: Silent Noon No. 2 from The House of Life 
Dring: It was a lover and his lass No. 5 from 7 Shakespeare Songs

Photo: Lucy Crowe credit Victoria Cadisch

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Soprano Lucy Crowe and pianist Anna Tilbrook live at London's Wigmore Hall

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