Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert - Scotland Week - Lisa Milne, Iain Burnside

One of the RSAMD's most successful alumni, Aberdeen-born soprano Lisa Milne, teams up with pianist Iain Burnside to perform a mixed programme of English, Scottish, German and French songs across three centuries. Songs and sonnets inspired by Shakespeare make up the first half of the programme with Purcell arranged by Tippett and Britten and balanced with a more childs-eye view of life with the famous Fontaine fables such as The Fox and the Crow etc set by the early 20th century french composer Andre Caplet. Songs from closer to home also feature with James MacMillan's atmospheric settings of three songs by the influential Scots poet William Soutar, Ballad, The Children and Scots Song. Presented by Mary Ann Kennedy. Purcell The Blessed Virgin's Expostulation (arr. Tippett / Bergmann) If Music Be the Food of Love (arr. Britten) 'Twas within a furlong of Edinburgh Town (arr. Tippett / Bergmann) Mad Bess (arr. Britten) Strauss Drei Lied der Ophelia aus 'Hamlet' Wie erkenn' ich mein Treulieb Guten Morgen, 's ist Sankt Valentinstag Sie trugen ihn auf der Bahre bloß James MacMillan Ballad The Children Scots Song Caplet Trois Fables de Jean de la Fontaine Le Corbeau et le Renard La Cigale et la Fourmi Le Loup et l'Agneau.