Wednesday's New Generation Artists, "From Britten to the Beetles", was a bit of an odd mixture (the R3 norm?), but did have some Early Music...
From Britten to The Beatles
New Generation Artists
Current members of Radio 3's New Generation Artists scheme in music ranging from the melancholy songs of John Dowland to the passion of Waxman's Carmen Fantasy. And, between them, a performance of the quartet that Benjamin Britten wrote in 1945 to mark the 250th anniversary of the death of English composer Henry Purcell.
Franz Waxman : Carmen Fantasy
Geneva Lewis (violin), Ryan Corbett (accordion)
Dowland: Can she excuse
Fleetwood Mac / Christine McVie: Songbird
The Beatles: Blackbird
Dowland: In Darkness let me Dwell
Hugh Cutting (counter tenor) Daniel Murphy (lute)
Britten: String Quartet No. 2 in C major, Op.36
Leonkoro Quartet
Duparc: Extase
Duparc L'invitation au voyage
Johanna Wallroth (soprano), Simon Lepper (piano)
Richard Rodgers: Spring's Here
Fergus McCreadie (solo piano)
New Generation Artists
Current members of Radio 3's New Generation Artists scheme in music ranging from the melancholy songs of John Dowland to the passion of Waxman's Carmen Fantasy. And, between them, a performance of the quartet that Benjamin Britten wrote in 1945 to mark the 250th anniversary of the death of English composer Henry Purcell.
Franz Waxman : Carmen Fantasy
Geneva Lewis (violin), Ryan Corbett (accordion)
Dowland: Can she excuse
Fleetwood Mac / Christine McVie: Songbird
The Beatles: Blackbird
Dowland: In Darkness let me Dwell
Hugh Cutting (counter tenor) Daniel Murphy (lute)
Britten: String Quartet No. 2 in C major, Op.36
Leonkoro Quartet
Duparc: Extase
Duparc L'invitation au voyage
Johanna Wallroth (soprano), Simon Lepper (piano)
Richard Rodgers: Spring's Here
Fergus McCreadie (solo piano)
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