Allan Clayton & James Baillieu: Beethoven & Tippett

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BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Fri 11 Oct 2019 1.00pm - 2.00pm
LSO St Luke's, London

PURCELL arr TIPPETT Music for a while; If music be the food of love
BEETHOVEN An die ferne Geliebte; Adelaide
TIPPETT Songs for Ariel; The Heart’s Assurance

Allan Clayton tenor
James Baillieu piano

Tickets: £15 (£13 concessions)
NB Unallocated seating

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Part of the BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concerts 2018/19 season multibuy - click here for more information on multibuys

Part of 2019/20 season

Please note that finish times are approximate and subject to change

Royal Philharmonic Society Singer of the year award winner Allan Clayton joins star song pianist James Baillieu to perform two masterpieces ruminating on love for one who is absent.

Michael Tippett thought of his masterpiece in song as having the subtitle ‘Love under the shadow of death’. Setting love poems by Sidney Keyes, The Heart’s Assurance represents a personal response to the death of a friend.

While Beethoven is not thought of foremost as a composer of small, intimate works, with An die ferne Geliebte he became the first major composer to write a narrative song cycle, and in doing so created a genre which inspired the great song composers of the Romantic age.

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Broadcast

Recorded by BBC Radio 3 for broadcast on 12 December

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