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Music: Classical: Chamber & Recital

Live and recorded concerts from all over the UK. Includes the Wigmore chamber music series

Live and recorded concerts from all over the United Kingdom. Also includes the flagship Wigmore chamber music series.

Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Downpatrick Recitals

Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Downpatrick Recitals: Episode 3: Robin Tritschler, Simon Lepper

Episode 3

Episode 3: Robin Tritschler, Simon Lepper

Downpatrick Recitals

Robin Tritschler, Simon Lepper

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Robin Tritschler (tenor) and Simon Lepper (piano) perform music by Schumann and Britten.

Song recital from the Great Hall in Downpatrick, Co Down. Robin Tritschler (tenor) and Simon Lepper (piano) perform Schumann's Dichterliebe and Britten's Winter Words.

Sean Rafferty introduces the penultimate Lunchtime Concert featuring song recitals recorded in Downpatrick, Co. Down. Today the Irish tenor, Robin Tritschler and pianist, Simon Lepper perform song cycles by Schumann and Britten. Schumann's Dichterliebe (A Poet's Love) is settings of 16 poems by Heinrich Heine and was composed during Schumann's year of song, 1840. Schumann arranged the the sequence of songs to tell the story of unrequited love. Over 100 years later in 1953, Benjamin Britten set the words of Thomas Hardy and the theme of the eight settings is the loss of innocence.

Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

Sean Rafferty presents song recitals given at the Great Hall in Downpatrick, Co Down

Sean Rafferty presents a series of song recitals given at the Great Hall in Downpatrick, Co Down, the final resting place of St Patrick, Ireland's patron saint

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