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Nicola Heywood Thomas presents Schumann Plus, a series of concerts broadcast live from St David's Hall, Cardiff, focusing on the music of Robert Schumann, plus works by lesser-known composers including Doreen Carwithen, Henri毛tte Bosmans, Ruth Gipps and Susan Spain-Dunk.

In the first concert this week broadcast live from St David鈥檚 Hall in Cardiff, tenor Alessandro Fisher and pianist JongSun Woo perform Schumann鈥檚 substantial Dichterliebe. Consisting of 16 songs, this set was composed in 1840 - the same year Schumann was eventually able to marry Clara Wieck after opposition from her father, and these love songs may well have been written for her. The concert then turns to British composers, with three settings of poems by Walter de la Mare composed by Doreen Carwithen, who was celebrated as a composer of both classical and film music, followed by Benjamin Britten鈥檚 arrangements of Irish, Welsh and English traditional folk songs. To end the concert returns to music from Wales, with a song by Meirion Williams: Mountain Breezes.

Alessandro Fisher, tenor
JongSun Woo, piano

Schumann: Dichterliebe, Op 48
Carwithen: Noon
Carwithen: Echo
Carwithen: Ride-by-Nights
Britten: Salley Gardens
Britten: The Ash Grove
Britten: The Plough Boy
Meirion Williams: Awelon y mynydd

Produced by Luke Whitlock