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: Helen Charlston

Helen Charlston

BBC Radio 3 - Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert, Helen Charlston

From Wigmore Hall, the mezzo-soprano sings Schumann's Dichterliebe.

From Wigmore Hall, the mezzo-soprano sings Schumann's Dichterliebe, together with songs by Carl Loewe, Felix Mendelssohn, Fanny Hensel, Josephine Lang and Heloise Werner.

Robert Schumann’s song-cycle Dichterliebe is the endpoint of a programme on the subject of poetic love, given by Helen Charlston and Sholto Kynoch. As well as being the winner of the first prize in the 2018 London Handel Singing Competition and of the Ferrier Loveday Song Prize at the 2021 Kathleen Ferrier Awards, Helen is also a current BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist.

From Wigmore Hall, London
Presented by Andrew McGregor

Carl Loewe: Die Lotosblume, Op 9 No 1
Fanny Hensel: Schwanenlied, Op 1 No 1 
Josephine Lang: Wenn zwei von einander scheiden Op 33 No 2
Felix Mendelssohn: Reiselied, Op 34 No 6
Héloïse Werner: Knight's Dream
Robert Schumann: Dichterliebe

Helen Charlston (mezzo-soprano)
Sholto Kynoch (piano)

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