Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

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Live and recorded concerts from all over the United Kingdom. Also includes the flagship Wigmore chamber music series.

Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Louise Alder and Joseph Middleton

Louise Alder and Joseph Middleton

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Live from London's Wigmore Hall, a recital including songs by Amy Beach and Alma Mahler.

Soprano Louise Alder and pianist Joseph Middleton perform a recital by women composers, including Amy Beach, Clara Schumann, Lili Boulanger, Alma Mahler and Libby Larsen.

Winner of the Dame Joan Sutherland Audience Prize at the 2017 BBC Cardiff Singer of the World competition, soprano Louise Alder and pianist Joseph Middleton perform a recital by women composers, culminating in Libby Larsen's song cycle 'Try Me, Good King': five songs drawn from the final letters and gallows speeches of the first five of Henry VIII's six wives (his sixth wife, Katherine Parr, outlived him), resulting in a monodrama of anguish and power.

Live from Wigmore Hall
Presented by Hannah French

Amy Beach: Three Browning Songs:
The years at the spring
Ah love but a day
I send my heart up to thee

Clara Schumann: Er ist gekommen; Warum willst du; Liebst du um Schönheit

Lili Boulanger: Vous m’avez regardé; Nous nous aimerons tant; Si tout ceci n’est qu’un pauvre reve

Alma Mahler: Laue Sommernacht; Ich wandle unter Blumen; Licht in der Nacht 
 
Libby Larsen: Try Me, Good King:
Katherine of Aragon 
Anne Boleyn 
Jane Seymour 
Anne of Cleves 
Katherine Howard 

Louise Alder (soprano)
Joseph Middleton (piano)

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