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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 4: Miah Persson, Joseph Breinl

Episode 4

Episode 4: Miah Persson, Joseph Breinl

Downpatrick Recitals

Miah Persson, Joseph Breinl

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Miah Persson (soprano) and Joseph Breinl (piano) in music by Clara and Robert Schumann.

Recital by Miah Persson (soprano) with Joseph Breinl (piano). Schumann: Aus Myrten; Gedichte der Konigin; Maria Stuart; Frauenliebe und -Leben. Clara Schumann: Lieder, Op 13; Op 12.

Sean Rafferty presents the final Song Recital in this series from Downpatrick. The marraige of Robert and Clara Schumann  produced one of the most creative partnerships of the nineteenth century.   Both intended to become concert pianists and both were composers. However, Clara had a career as a brilliant pianist while Robert devoted his talents to composition.  Today Miah Persson and Joseph Breinl perform songs by both Clara and Robert.  They begin with songs from Myrthen which Robert compiled as a wedding present for Clara; then songs by Clara, some of which she presented to Robert on his thirty-first birthday;  and they end with Robert's sublime Frauenliebe und leben which traces a woman's love and life from the distresses of adolescence, through marriage, motherhood and bereavement.

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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