New Generation Artists

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New Generation Artists - a BBC scheme to nurture exceptional young talent

The BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists Scheme helps to support talented musicians to reach the next stages of their careers and brings some of the world’s most promising new talent to listeners across the UK through BBC Radio 3 broadcasts.

New Generation Artists: Mendelssohn's Variations sérieuses

Mendelssohn's Variations sérieuses

BBC Radio 3 - New Generation Artists, Mendelssohn's Variations sérieuses

Featuring performances of music by Byrd, Wagner, Mendelssohn and Fleetwood Mac.

Featuring music by Byrd, Mendelssohn, Wagner and Fleetwood Mac performed by brilliant young artists at concerts around the UK.

New Generation Artists: Hugh Cutting, Masabane Cecilia Rangwanasha and Elisabeth Brauss in music by Mendelssohn, Wagner, William Byrd and Fleetwood Mac. 
BBC recordings from some of the brilliant young artists appearing this week at the London Jazz Festival, Oxford Lieder Festival and Wigmore Hall. 

Dave O'Higgins: Ballad for Barry 
Dave O'Higgins (sax) with recent NGAs Rob Luft (guitar) and Mischa Mullov-Abbado (bass) plus Ross Stanley (piano) and Billy Pod (drums)

Byrd: Ye sacred muses - Tallis is Dead	
Fleetwood Mac: Songbird 
Hugh Cutting (counter-tenor), Danny Murphy (lute)

Wagner: Traume from Wesendonck
Masabane Cecilia Rangwanasha (soprano), James Baillieu (piano)
		
Mendelssohn: Variations sérieuses in D minor Op. 54
Elisabeth Brauss (piano)

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