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 exclusive recordings from the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Music Director Vasily Petrenko. Today, you can tune in for Elgar's symphonic study, Falstaff, recorded at the Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall.

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

Programme:
William Byrd: This sweet and merry month of May a6
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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