The Gesualdo Six live at Wigmore Hall

The Gesualdo Six perform live from Wigmore Hall, with a collection of exquisite vocal consort pieces. And Mark Forrest introduces a week of specially recorded performances from the recent St. Magnus Festival in this, its 50th year. And throughout this week, Classical Live is shining a spotlight on the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Music Director Vasily Petrenko with exclusive recordings. Today, you can tune in for Elgar's symphonic study Falstaff. Also, baritone Roderick Williams performs a new work from the Scottish composer Jay Capperauld with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and Chorus conducted by Andrew Manze.

LIVE FROM WIGMORE HALL: The Gesualdo Six
Introduced for Classical Live by Petroc Trelawny

Programme:
William Byrd: This sweet and merry month of May
David Bednall: Put out into the deep
Trad/English: Bushes and Briars (arranged by Ralph Vaughan Williams)
Alison Willis: The Wind's Warning
Joby Talbot: The Wishing Tree
Trad/Irish: The Lark in the Clear Air (arranged by James Whitbourn)
Anna Semple: My Bonnie Lies
Christen Holmes: Summer Shower
Josquin des Prez: El Grillo
Orlando Gibbons: The silver swan
Charles Villiers Stanford: 4 Poems by Mary E Coleridge Op. 119: The Blue Bird
Owain Park: When love speaks
Francis Poulenc: Petites voix
Trad/English: The Oak and the Ash (arranged by Gordon Langford)

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Edward Elgar
Falstaff - Symphonic Study Op. 68
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Vasily Petrenko (conductor)

St Magnus @ 50:
Franz Schubert
Divertissement à la hongroise, D. 818
Pavel Kolesnikov/Samson Tsoy (piano duo)

Franz Joseph Haydn
The Creation -
'The Representation of Chaos'
Scottish Chamber Orchestra
Andrew Manze (conductor)

Jay Capperauld
The Language of Eden
Roderick Williams (baritone)
Scottish Chamber Orchestra & Chorus
Andrew Manze (conductor)

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