New Generation Artists in Concert: Spotlight on Kunal Lahiry
Radio 3 New Generation Artist Kunal Lahiry brings together the creative culture of LGBTQ+ artists and classical music in a curated Queer Song Festival at St George's Bristol.
Radio 3 New Generation Artist Kunal Lahiry brings together the creative culture of LGBTQ+ artists and classical music in a specially curated 鈥淨ueer Song Festival鈥�, part of Bristol Pride.
Recorded at St George鈥檚 Bristol, in these highlights from the two-day festival highly acclaimed soprano Ruby Hughes, herself a former New Generation Artist, and Kunal, a current member, perform a richly varied programme ranging from Schubert to a newly commissioned work by singer and performance artist Lyra Pramuk as well as poet Nat Marcus - a queer response to Schubert鈥檚 Winterreise.
Grammy award-winning tenor Frederick Ballentine joins Kunal after the interval. 鈥淥ur People鈥� is a deeply moving story of the black and LGBTQ+ people of America鈥檚 experience, told through song in four chapters: Otherness, Oppression, Reflection, and Revolution. From traditional spirituals like 鈥淪ometimes I feel like a Motherless Child鈥� and Margaret Bonds, to Rachmaninov to Billie Holiday鈥檚 鈥淪trange Fruit鈥�, and contemporary responses from John Musto and Ricky Ian Gordon as part of the AIDS Quilt Songbook, "Our People" explores and rejoices the journey of these two communities separately, but also together.
Introduced by Linton Stephens
Music includes
Purcell, arr Thomas Ad猫s : By beauteous softness (Now does the glorious day appear, Z332)
Lyra Pramuk,: Lyra
Schubert:
Die Sterne, D939
Nachtstuck, D 672
Auf dem Wasser zu singen, D774
Errollyn Wallen:
North
Rain
Ives:
Serenity
The Housatonic at Stockbridge
Ruby Hughes, soprano
Kunal Lahiry, collaborative piano
c. 8.15 Kunal Lahiry in conversation with Linton Stephens
Our People
Traditional spiritual : Sometimes I feel like a motherless child
Copland: Nature! The gentlest mother
William Bolcom: George
Copland: Why do they shut me out of heaven? (12 songs of Emily Dickinson)
Schubert: Memnon
Margaret Bonds: Minstrel Man (The Dream Portraits)
Going up in Smoke
David Krakauer: The 80s Miracle Diet
John Musto: Heartbeats
Ricky Ian Gordon: I never knew
Abel Meeropol , arr. Pablo Campos: Strange Fruit
Requiem
Gershwin arr. Earl Wild: The Man I Love
John Musto: Litany (Shades of Blue)
Purcell: When I was laid in Earth (Dido and Aeneas)
So Loud, So Proud
Ricky Ian Gordon: My People
Sergei Rachmaninov: Spring Waters, Op 14, No 11
Nina Simone, Langston Hughes arr. Pablo Campos: Backlash Blues
Frederick Ballentine, tenor
Kunal Lahiry, collaborative piano
Producer: Johannah Smith
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Henry Purcell
By beauteous softness
Performer: Kunal Lahiry. Music Arranger: Thomas Ad猫s. Singer: Ruby Hughes. -
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Franz Schubert
Die Sterne, D 939
Performer: Kunal Lahiry. Singer: Ruby Hughes. -
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Franz Schubert
Nachtstuck, D 672
Performer: Kunal Lahiry. Singer: Ruby Hughes. -
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Franz Schubert
Auf dem Wasser zu singen, D 774
Performer: Kunal Lahiry. Singer: Ruby Hughes. -
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Lyra Pramuk
Tinnitus
Performer: Kunal Lahiry. Singer: Ruby Hughes. -
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Errollyn Wallen
North
Performer: Kunal Lahiry. Singer: Ruby Hughes. -
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Errollyn Wallen
Rain
Performer: Kunal Lahiry. Singer: Ruby Hughes. -
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Charles Ives
Serenity
Performer: Kunal Lahiry. Singer: Ruby Hughes. -
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Charles Ives
The Housatonic at Stockbridge
Performer: Kunal Lahiry. Singer: Ruby Hughes. -
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Trad.
Sometimes I feel like a Motherless child
Singer: Frederick Ballentine. -
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Aaron Copland
Nature! The gentlest mother (12 Poems of Emily Dickinson)
Singer: Frederick Ballentine. -
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William Bolcom
George
Performer: Kunal Lahiry. Singer: Frederick Ballentine. -
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Aaron Copland
Why do they shut me out of heaven? (12 poems of Emily Dickinson)
Performer: Kunal Lahiry. Singer: Frederick Ballentine. -
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Franz Schubert
Memnon, D 541
Performer: Kunal Lahiry. Singer: Frederick Ballentine. -
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Margaret Bonds
Minstrel Man (The Dream Portraits)
Performer: Kunal Lahiry. Singer: Frederick Ballentine. -
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David Krakauer
The 80s Miracle Diet
Performer: Kunal Lahiry. Singer: Frederick Ballentine. -
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John Musto
Heartbeats
Performer: Kunal Lahiry. Singer: Frederick Ballentine. -
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Ricky Ian Gordon
R3iC_TX040723_Ricky Ian Gordon I never knew
Performer: Kunal Lahiry. Singer: Frederick Ballentine. -
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Abel Meeropol
Strange Fruit
Performer: Kunal Lahiry. Music Arranger: Pablo Campos. Singer: Frederick Ballentine. -
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George Gershwin
The Man I Love
Performer: Kunal Lahiry. Music Arranger: Earl Wild. -
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John Musto
Litany (Shades of Blue)
Performer: Kunal Lahiry. Singer: Frederick Ballentine. -
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Henry Purcell
When I am laid in Earth (Dido and Aeneas)
Performer: Kunal Lahiry. Singer: Frederick Ballentine. -
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Ricky Ian Gordon
My People
Performer: Kunal Lahiry. Singer: Frederick Ballentine. -
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Sergey Rachmaninov
Spring Waters, Op 14, No 11
Performer: Kunal Lahiry. Singer: Frederick Ballentine. -
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Nina Simone
Backlash Blues
Performer: Kunal Lahiry. Music Arranger: Pablo Campos. Singer: Frederick Ballentine. -
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Ethel Smyth
String Quartet in E minor (3rd mvt)
Ensemble: Archaeus Quartet.- Lorelt.
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Jonathan Dove
Song 2 (Out of Winter)
Singer: Nicky Spence. Performer: Andrew Matthews-Owen.- All You Who Sleep Tonight.
- Naxos.
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Broadcast
- Tue 4 Jul 2023 19:30大象传媒 Radio 3