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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: Wigmore Hall Mondays: Kathryn Rudge and James Baillieu

Wigmore Hall Mondays: Kathryn Rudge and James Baillieu

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From Wigmore Hall in London, Kathryn Rudge and James Baillieu perform English song.

From Wigmore Hall in London, Sara Mohr-Pietsch introduces a performance from 2017 of English song, featuring mezzo-soprano Kathryn Rudge and pianist James Baillieu.

From Wigmore Hall in London, mezzo soprano Kathryn Rudge and pianist James Baillieu perform a recital of English song. 
English song flourished at the beginning of the 20th-century and was influenced by the wealth of poetry and the trauma of global warfare. Today's concert journeys through a programme of songs by Howells and Quilter and a rarity by Denis Browne, and Kathryn and James are joined by viola player Gary Pomeroy for three songs by Frank Bridge. it was first broadcast in February 2017 when Kathryn Rudge was a member of Radio 3's New Generation Artist scheme. 

Presented by Sara Mohr-Pietsch

Herbert Howells: Come sing and dance
Roger Quilter: Go, lovely rose; Now sleeps the crimson petal; Music, when soft voices die
William Charles Denis Browne: To Gratiana, dancing and singing
Herbert Howells: Peacock Pie - song-cycle Op.33
Ivor Gurney: Sleep; Most holy night; The Fields are full; By a bierside 
Frank Bridge*: Far, far from each other; Where is it that our soul doth go?; Music when soft voices die

Kathryn Rudge, mezzo-soprano
James Baillieu, piano
Gary Pomeroy, viola*.

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