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Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: 2019 Hay Festival - Ravel Plus: Ravel Plus: James Newby and Joseph Middleton

Ravel Plus: James Newby and Joseph Middleton

2019 Hay Festival - Ravel Plus

BBC Radio 3 - Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert, 2019 Hay Festival - Ravel Plus, Ravel Plus: James Newby and Joseph Middleton

Sarah Walker presents Ravel Plus performed by James Newby and Joseph Middleton.

Sarah Walker presents Ravel Plus performed by baritone James Newby with the pianist Joseph Middleton at the 2019 Hay Festival, including works by Debussy, Duparc and Ravel.

Sarah Walker presents Ravel Plus, with music performed by the baritone James Newby, a current Radio 3 New Generation Artist, with the pianist Joseph Middleton, recorded at St Mary's Church, Hay-on-Wye, during the 2019 Hay Festival. The concert comprises a selection of music including Ravel’s Histoires Naturelles which sets poems by Jules Renard, and Ravel's Cinq melodies populaires grecques, inspired by popular Greek folk music from the time. The concert also includes a selection of songs by Debussy and Duparc.

The 2019 Hay Festival lunchtime concert series also celebrates the 20th anniversary of Radio 3’s New Generation Artists scheme, which nurtures and promotes some of the world’s finest young musicians at the start of their international careers. Throughout the week there’ll be performances by both current and former BBC New Generation Artists.

James Newby, baritone
Joseph Middleton, piano

Claude Debussy: Trois melodies
Maurice Ravel: Cinq melodies populaires grecques
Maurice Ravel: Histoires Naturalles
Henri Deparc: Extase
Henri Deparc: La vague et la cloche
Henri Deparc: Phidylé

Produced by Luke Whitlock

Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: 2019 Hay Festival - Ravel Plus

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Sarah Walker with music performed by both current and former BBC New Generation Artists.

Sarah Walker presents Ravel Plus, with music recorded at St Mary's Church, Hay-on-Wye, performed by both current and former BBC New Generation Artists.

Sarah Walker presents Ravel Plus, with music performed by both current and former BBC New Generation Artists.

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