Songs of the Sea live from Wigmore Hall

Linton Stephens introduces an afternoon of specially recorded music including highlights from this summer's Glenarm Festival of Voice in Northern Ireland, featuring Radio 3 New Generation Artist, tenor Santiago Sanchez and mezzo-soprano Carolyn Dobbin.

Also this week Linton features concerto recordings from the BBC Symphony Orchestra. Today, the orchestra is joined by former R3 New Generation Artist, accordionist Ryan Corbett for a performances of the Tatar Rhapsody by Mikhail Pletnev.

But we begin the week with a live concert from Wigmore Hall. Baritone James Newby and pianist Joseph Middleton perform a programme inspired by the sea, including songs by Schubert, Elgar, Rachmaninov, Finzi and Weill, among others.

Wigmore Hall Live
introduced by Hannah French

Franz Schubert
Gruppe aus dem Tartarus, D. 583

Nikolai Medtner
Meeresstille [12 Songs after Goethe, Op.15 No.7]

Granville Bantock
Song to the Seals

Cheryl Frances-Hoad
The Thought Machine – Rita the Pirate

John Ireland
Sea Fever

Franz Schubert
Des Fischers Liebesglück

Charles Ives
From ‘The Swimmers’

Henri Duparc
L’invitation au voyage

Emmanuel Chabrier
L’ile heureuse

Sergei Rachmaninov
The Isle [12 Songs, Op. 14 No. 2]

Edward Elgar
Where Corals Lie [Sea Pictures, Op. 37]

Franz Schubert
Der Schiffer, D. 536

Cecil Armstrong Gibbs
Sailing homeward

Gerald Finzi
Channel firing [Before and after Summer, Op. 16]

Eric Coates
Sleepy Lagoon

Charles Villiers Stanford
Drake’s Drum [Songs of the Sea, Op. 91]

Kurt Weill
My Ship [Lady in the Dark]

Cole Porter
The Tale of the Oyster [Fifty Million Frenchmen]

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From 2pm

Mikhail Pletnev
Tatar Rhapsody
Ryan Corbett (accordion)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Andrew Litton (conductor)

Joseph Haydn
Keyboard Trio No. 45 in E flat, Hob. XV:29
Esther Hoppe (violin)
Christian Poltera (cello)
Ronald Brautigam (piano)

From the London International Festival of Early Music 2024:

Trad. Polish
A selection of improvised Polonaises based on Telemann
Erik Bosgraaf (recorder)
filoBarocco

From the Glenarm Festival of Voice 2025:

Joan Trimble
The County Mayo (Song-Cycle)
Carolyn Dobbin (mezzo-soprano)
Simon Lepper (piano)

César Franck
Symphony in D minor
Ulster Orchestra
Jac van Steen (conductor)

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