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Radio 3 New Generation Artists - Helen Charlston and Alessandro Fisher

Al Ryan presents Radio 3 New Generation Artists performing at St George's Bristol. Today, Helen Charlston and Alessandro Fisher perform British and German songs.

Al Ryan presents current and former Radio 3 New Generation Artists performing at St George's Bristol. Today, mezzo-soprano Helen Charlston and tenor Alessandro Fisher are joined by their regular collaborator, Sholto Kynoch, for a programme of solos and duets. They perform works by Brahms and Schubert, set alongside music from the British art-song revival of the early twentieth century and including folk songs, nautical ballads and beloved texts by Masefield, Yeats and Shakespeare.

Helen Charlston, mezzo-soprano
Alessandro Fisher, tenor
Sholto Kynoch, piano

Ireland: Sea Fever
John Ireland: Full Fathom Five
Vaughan Williams: Think of me
Schubert: Vier Canzonen D. 688
Vaughan Williams: Adieu
Brahms: F眉nf Lieder Op. 105
Vaughan Williams: It was a lover and his lass
Dunhill: The Cloths of Heaven
Clarke: Down by the Salley Gardens
Britten: How sweet the answer
Britten: The Salley Gardens
Gurney: Sleep
Elwyn-Edwards: The Cloths of Heaven
Coleridge Taylor: Oh, the Summer

57 minutes

Music Played

  • John Ireland

    Sea fever

    Performer: Sholto Kynoch. Singer: Helen Charlston.
  • John Ireland

    Full fathom five

    Performer: Sholto Kynoch. Singer: Helen Charlston. Singer: Alessandro Fisher.
  • Sholto Kynoch

    Think of me

  • Franz Schubert

    Four Canzonen D688

    Performer: Helen Charlston. Performer: Sholto Kynoch.
  • Sholto Kynoch

    Adieu

  • Johannes Brahms

    Five songs, Op 105

    Performer: Sholto Kynoch. Singer: Alessandro Fisher.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    It was a lover and his lass

    Performer: Sholto Kynoch. Singer: Helen Charlston. Singer: Alessandro Fisher.
  • Thomas Dunhill

    The cloths of heaven

    Singer: Alessandro Fisher. Performer: Sholto Kynoch.
  • Rebecca Clarke

    Down by the Salley gardens

    Performer: Sholto Kynoch. Singer: Helen Charlston.
  • Benjamin Britten

    How sweet the answer

    Performer: Sholto Kynoch. Singer: Helen Charlston.
  • Benjamin Britten

    The Salley gardens

    Performer: Sholto Kynoch. Singer: Helen Charlston.
  • Ivor Gurney

    Five Elizabethan Songs (No 5, Sleep)

    Performer: Sholto Kynoch. Singer: Alessandro Fisher.
  • Dilys Elwyn-Edwards

    The cloths of heaven

    Performer: Sholto Kynoch. Singer: Alessandro Fisher.
  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Oh, the summer

    Performer: Sholto Kynoch. Singer: Helen Charlston. Singer: Alessandro Fisher.

Broadcast

  • Wed 28 Feb 2024 13:00