Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

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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: Bass-baritone Ashley Riches at Wigmore Hall

Bass-baritone Ashley Riches at Wigmore Hall

BBC Radio 3 - Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert, Bass-baritone Ashley Riches at Wigmore Hall

Live from Wigmore Hall: bass-baritone Ashley Riches - the art of story-telling in song.

Live from the Wigmore Hall: bass-baritone Ashley Riches and pianist Joseph Middleton celebrate the art of story-telling from Vienna to New York via Yarmouth Fair.

Live from Wigmore Hall: bass-baritone Ashley Riches and pianist Joseph Middleton celebrate the art of story-telling.  

The former Radio 3 New Generation Artist, Ashley Riches returns to the Wigmore stage with a programme that begins with Schubert's terrifying Erlking and ends in the cabaret world of Bolcom's Black Max. And, in between, he and pianist Joseph Middleton take us to the banks of the Rhine, to medieval France, to an English country fair and so on to the solitary hotel of James Joyces' Ulysses. 

Presented by Andrew McGregor. 

Schubert: Erlkönig D328
Schubert: Der König in Thule D367
Liszt: Die Loreley S273
Wolf: Mörike Lieder - Die Geister am Mummelsee
Carl Loewe: Der Zauberlehrling Op. 20 No. 2
Saint-Saëns: Le pas d'armes du Roi Jean
Hahn: Trois jours de vendange
Debussy: 3 ballades de François Villon - Ballade des femmes de Paris
Warlock: Yarmouth Fair
Trad (arr. R. Quilter): Barbara Allen 
Britten: Little Sir William
Barber: Despite and Still Op. 41 - Solitary Hotel
William Bolcom: 12 Cabaret Songs - Song of Black Max
William Bolcom - George

Ashley Riches (bass-baritone)
Joseph Middleton (piano)

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Bass-baritone Ashley Riches at Wigmore Hall

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