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Music: Classical: Chamber & Recital

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: Northern Ireland Opera Festival of Voice 2020 (3/4)

Northern Ireland Opera Festival of Voice 2020 (3/4)

BBC Radio 3 - Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert, Northern Ireland Opera Festival of Voice 2020 (3/4)

Chamber music performances from the NI Opera Festival of Voice 2020.

Performances by soprano Ailish Tynan, mezzo Kitty Whately and baritone James Newby, from the Northern Ireland Opera Festival of Voice 2020.

A series of recitals from Northern Ireland Opera's Festival of Voice 2020, recorded at the First Presbyterian Church in Rosemary Street, Belfast. 

John Toal introduces accompanist Simon Lepper with two graduates of the Radio 3 New Generation Artists Scheme – Irish soprano Ailish Tynan and British mezzo Kitty Whately – and one current member of the scheme, British baritone James Newby.

Across the series they’ll be celebrating the culture and traditions of Glenarm, Co. Antrim – the village in which the festival usually takes place.

Today’s programme celebrates stories and ballads, with songs by composers including Schubert, Barber and Sondheim.

Franz Schubert: Kolma’s Klage D. 217	
Ailish Tynan (soprano) and Simon Lepper (piano)

John Ireland: The Three Ravens 
Stanford: La belle dame sans merci 
James Newby (baritone) and Simon Lepper (piano)

John Cage: The Wonderful Widow of Eighteen Springs 
Barber: Solitary Hotel; Nuvoletta 
Ailish Tynan (soprano) and Simon Lepper (piano)

Juliana Hall: Lady Godiva 
Stephen Sondheim: I Read (Passion); On the Steps of the Palace; Children Will Listen; Moments in the Woods (Into the Woods)
Kitty Whately (mezzo) and Simon Lepper (piano)

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