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Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Masabane Cecilia Rangwanasha

Masabane Cecilia Rangwanasha

BBC Radio 3 - Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert, Masabane Cecilia Rangwanasha

Live from Wigmore Hall: soprano Masabane Cecilia Rangwanasha sings the songs she loves.

Live from Wigmore Hall: Masabane Cecilia Rangwanasha, the rising South African star, sings the songs she loves - from Mahler and Wagner to The Sound of Music.

The South African soprano comes to Wigmore Hall with a suitcase full of songs from around the world. The former Royal Opera House Jette Parker Young Artist and the popular winner of the Song Prize at the 2021 BBC Cardiff Singer of the Year Competition is a current Radio 3 New Generation Artist. After her triumphs at the BBC Proms in Strauss's Four Last Songs and the Verdi Requiem, Masabane this season headlines at the Salzburg Easter Festival. 

Presenter live from Wigmore Hall by Hannah French.    

Wagner: Stehe still! and Schmerzen from Wesendonck Lieder
Richard Strauss: Morgen Op. 27 No. 4
Mahler: Rückert Lieder
Stephanus le Roux Marais: Heimwee
Trad. S. African: Lala ho nna
May Brahe: Bless this House O Lord we Pray
Alma Bazel Androzzo: If I can help somebody
Trad:  Amazing Grace
Richard Rodgers: Climb Ev'ry Mountain from The Sound of Music

Masabane Cecilia Rangwanasha (soprano)
with Anna Blackmur (violin)
Simon Lepper (piano)

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