Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

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BBC Radio 3 is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 30th September 1967. It replaced Third Programme.

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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: LSO St Luke's Artist Focus: Gareth Davies

LSO St Luke's Artist Focus: Gareth Davies

BBC Radio 3 - Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert, LSO St Luke's Artist Focus: Gareth Davies

Flautist Gareth Davies and Michael McHale play music by William Grant Still and Reinecke.

Flautist Gareth Davies and Michael McHale play music by William Grant Still and Reinecke, recorded in May at LSO St Luke's and presented by Hannah French.

Hannah French presents the third of four concerts focusing on top international wind and brass stars, and recorded in May at LSO St Luke's.  Today the light shines on flautist Gareth Davies with pianist Michael McHale, who perform a programme of watery-themed and bucolic music.

The recital starts with Debussy's solo work for flute, telling of the melancholic nymph, Syrinx.  That is followed by Richard H Walthew's Idyll, full of flowing melodies and birdsong.  Electra Perivolaris's Glen Sannox Song was inspired by the landscape and musical traditions of the Isle of Arran, melodic lines tracing the bends and curves of the Glen Sannox river.  The watery theme continues with William Grant Still's Songs for flute and piano, and the concert ends with Carl Reinecke's Undine Sonata - a musical telling of the fairy-tale Undine, the water nymph.


DEBUSSY
Syrinx

RICHARD H WALTHEW
Idyll

ELECTRA PERIVOLARIS
Glen Sannox River Song

WILLIAM GRANT STILL, arr. ALEXA STILL
Songs for Flute and Piano

CARL REINECKE
Undine Sonata

Gareth Davies (flute)
Michael McHale (piano)

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