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This week's Lunchtime Concerts feature some of Radio 3's New Generation Artists at The Sage Gateshead. Today, tenor Ben Johnson sings music by Poulenc, Roussel, Oldham and Britten.

This week's Lunchtime Concerts come from The Sage Gateshead, with performances by some of Radio 3's current New Generation Artists. In today's broadcast, the tenor Ben Johnson and pianist Tom Primrose perform one of Francis Poulenc's best-loved song-cycles: "Tel jour, telle nuit" alongside Benjamin Britten's moving setting of eight poems by Thomas Hardy: "Winter Words". The programme also includes some less well-known songs from Chinese poems by Albert Roussel and Arthur Oldham.

Poulenc: Tel jour, telle nuit
Roussel: Amoureux s茅par茅s, Op.12'2
Roussel: Des fleurs font une broderie, Op.35'1
Oldham: 5 Chinese Lyrics
Britten: Winter Words

Ben Johnson (tenor) / Tom Primrose (piano).

58 minutes

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Tue 19 Jun 2012 13:00

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  • Tue 19 Jun 2012 13:00