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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: Schumann Plus performed by Alessandro Fisher and JongSun Woo

Schumann Plus performed by Alessandro Fisher and JongSun Woo

BBC Radio 3 - Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert, Schumann Plus performed by Alessandro Fisher and JongSun Woo

Nicola Heywood Thomas presents a live concert of Schumann performed by Alessandro Fisher.

Nicola Heywood Thomas presents Schumann Plus - a live series of concerts from St David's Hall, Cardiff, today featuring tenor Alessandro Fisher and pianist JongSun Woo.

Nicola Heywood Thomas presents Schumann Plus, a series of concerts broadcast live from St David's Hall, Cardiff, focusing on the music of Robert Schumann, plus works by lesser-known composers including Doreen Carwithen, Henriëtte Bosmans, Ruth Gipps and Susan Spain-Dunk.

In the first concert this week broadcast live from St David’s Hall in Cardiff, tenor Alessandro Fisher and pianist JongSun Woo perform Schumann’s substantial Dichterliebe. Consisting of 16 songs, this set was composed in 1840 - the same year Schumann was eventually able to marry Clara Wieck after opposition from her father, and these love songs may well have been written for her. The concert then turns to British composers, with three settings of poems by Walter de la Mare composed by Doreen Carwithen, who was celebrated as a composer of both classical and film music, followed by Benjamin Britten’s arrangements of Irish, Welsh and English traditional folk songs. To end the concert returns to music from Wales, with a song by Meirion Williams: Mountain Breezes.

Alessandro Fisher, tenor
JongSun Woo, piano

Schumann: Dichterliebe, Op 48
Carwithen: Noon
Carwithen: Echo
Carwithen: Ride-by-Nights
Britten: Salley Gardens
Britten: The Ash Grove
Britten: The Plough Boy
Meirion Williams: Awelon y mynydd

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