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: Sarah Connolly and Mahan Esfahani

Sarah Connolly and Mahan Esfahani

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Live from Wigmore Hall, Sarah Connolly and Mahan Esfahani in music spanning five centuries

Live from London's Wigmore Hall, Sarah Connolly and Mahan Esfahani perform songs and keyboard music spanning five centuries, from Dowland to Andriessen with WF Bach in between.

Live from Wigmore Hall: mezzo-soprano Sarah Connolly is joined by harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani in a programme which spans five centuries of song. The partnership of Dame Sarah with Mahan Esfahani promises to be both stimulating and thought provoking, as the harpsichordist swaps his harpsichord for the modern piano in Britten's lovingly reworked accompaniments to some of Purcell most famous songs.

Presented by Martin Handley.

Louis Andriessen:  Overture to Orpheus 
Dowland arr. Paul Max Edlin: Come, Heavy Sleep 
Purcell arr. Britten:  O Solitude, We sing to him, One charming night,  I take no pleasure 
W.F. Bach: Keyboard Sonata in E-flat, Fk. 5  
Martinu: Deux pieces for harpsichord
Tippett: Songs for Ariel 

Dame Sarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano)
Mahan Esfahani (harpsichord and piano)

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