Helen Charlston and Sholto Kynoch live from Wigmore Hall

Mark Forrest brings you an afternoon of exclusive music-making, featuring a live concert from London’s Wigmore Hall, highlights from the Cowbridge Music Festival, and the start of a week celebrating performances from the BBC National Orchestra of Wales.

From the Cowbridge Music Festival, an annual celebration of music in the Vale of Glamorgan, there are performances by the acclaimed Welsh pianist Llŷr Williams and the Consone Quartet is joined by violist Rosalind Ventris and cellist Richard Lester. Plus, the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, perform two symphonic works by Sibelius and Elgar.

But we begin with live music from Wigmore Hall, introduced for Classical Live by Hannah French. Former BBC New Generation Artist mezzo-soprano Helen Charlston and pianist Sholto Kynoch take to the stage to perform a richly varied programme exploring love, longing, loss and joy through song, spanning Baroque masters, Romantic songwriters and 20th-century composers.

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Live from Wigmore Hall and presented by Hannah French

Federico Mompou
Pour évoquer l’image du passé, (Charmes)

Reynaldo Hahn
Néère, (Latin Studies)

Claudio Monteverdi
Sì dolce è’l tormento

Reynaldo Hahn
Tyndaris, (Latin Studies)

Pauline Viardot
Céra una volta, (Popular Tuscan Songs)

Nadia Boulanger
Elle a vendu mon cœur

Robert Schumann
Stirb, Lieb und Freud! (Kerner Lieder)

Johann Sebastian Bach
Widerstehe doch der Sünde, (Cantata No 54, ‘Widerstehe doch der Sünde’)

Franz Schubert
Wiedersehn

Johann Sebastian Bach (arr György Kurtág)
Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit, (Cantata No 106, ‘Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit’)

Anna Semple
I am not yours

Franz Schubert
Die Mutter Erde

Reynaldo Hahn
A Chloris

Pauline Viardot
Canción de la Infanta

Maurice Ravel
Ballade de la reine morte d’aimer

Federico Mompou
pour appeler la joie, (Charmes)

Marc-Antoine Charpentier
Sans frayeur dans ce bois

Helen Charlston (mezzo-soprano)
Sholto Kynoch (piano)

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Jean Sibelius
Symphony No 5 in E flat major
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Ryan Bancroft (conductor)

Cowbridge Festival:
Franz Liszt / Richard Wagner
Liebestod, (Tristan und Isolde)
Llŷr Williams (piano)

Cowbridge Festival:
Maurice Ravel
Pavane pour une infante defunte
Llŷr Williams (piano)

Cowbridge Festival:
Antonín Dvořák
Cypresses, (selection)
Consone Quartet
Rosalind Ventris (viola)
Richard Lester (cello)

Edward Elgar
Variations on an Original Theme, ‘Enigma’
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Nil Venditti (conductor)

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