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 Ailish Tynan and pianist Iain Burnside, live from London's Wigmore Hall

Soprano Ailish Tynan and pianist Iain Burnside, live from London's Wigmore Hall

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Music by Edvard Grieg, Hugo Wolf, Libby Larsen and Charles Ives.

Soprano Ailish Tynan and pianist Iain Burnside perform songs by Edvard Grieg, Hugo Wolf, Libby Larsen, Charles Ives and Harold Arlen.

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. 

Georgia Mann introduces acclaimed Irish soprano Ailish Tynan and pianist Iain Burnside in recital.

Grieg: 6 songs Op. 48
Wolf: Blumengruss
Wolf: Ganymed
Wolf: Gleich und gleich
Wolf: Kennst du das Land
Traditional (Irish): The Leprechaun (arr. Herbert Hughes)
Traditional (Irish): I know where I'm goin' (arr. Herbert Hughes)
Traditional (Irish): Marry Me Now (arr. Herbert Hughes)
Traditional (Irish): Gartan Mother's Lullaby (arr. Herbert Hughes)
Ives:	Memories: a. Very Pleasant, b. Rather Sad
Libby Larsen: Pregnant
Ives: Songs my mother taught me
Arlen: Somewhere over the rainbow

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Soprano Ailish Tynan and pianist Iain Burnside, live from London's Wigmore Hall

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