成人快手

Live from the Pittville Pump Room in Cheltenham, 成人快手 Radio 3 New Generation Artists, Helen Charlston (mezzo-soprano) and Kunal Lahiry (piano) present songs inspired by birds and the music they create all around us. Centred on Judith Weir鈥檚 cycle, The Voice of Desire, and its theme of our conversations with nature. Introduced by Ian Skelly.

Purcell: Come all ye songsters (The Fairy Queen)
Brahms: Nachtigall op 97 no 1
Chausson: Le Colibri op.2 no 7
Britten: Ash Grove (Folk song arrangements vol.1)
Mahler: Ging heut' Morgen 眉bers Feld (Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen, no 2)
Messiaen: Bonjour toi, colombe vert (Harawi, no 2)
Weir: The Voice of Desire
Ravel: Oiseaux Tristes (Miroirs no 2)
Mahler: Wer hat dies Liedlein erdacht? (Des Knaben Wunderhorn, no 4)
Gibbons: The Silver Swan
Schubert: Die Kr盲he (Winterreise no 15)
Mahler: Wenn mein Schatz hochzeit macht (Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen, no 1)
Copland: Nature, the gentlest mother (Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson, no 1)
Britten: Lemady (8 folksongs, no 3)
Dring: It was a lover and his lass (7 Shakespeare songs, no 2)

Helen Charlston, mezzo-soprano
Kunal Lahiry, piano

Produced by Chris Taylor