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Radio 3 Live in Concert: Live from the Wigmore Hall, London: Episode 1: Vivaldi, Faure, Rossini, Schubert

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Episode 1: Vivaldi, Faure, Rossini, Schubert

Vivaldi, Faure, Rossini, Schubert

BBC Radio 3 - Radio 3 Live in Concert, Live from the Wigmore Hall, London, Vivaldi, Faure, Rossini, Schubert

Joyce DiDonato (mezzo) performs music by Vivaldi, Faure, Rossini and Schubert.

Joyce DiDonato (mezzo) and David Zobel (piano) in music celebrating Venice. Vivaldi: Ercole sul Termodonte (excerpts). Faure: Cinq melodies de Venise. Plus Rossini and Schubert.

Live from the Wigmore Hall
Presented by Martin Handley
Mezzo-soprano Joyce Didonato celebrates Venice in songs by Vivaldi, Fauré, Rossini and Schubert.
One of the world's great singers, DiDonato, accompanied by pianist David Zobel, begins the programme with masterpieces of the baroque and 19th-century bel canto, and extends it outwards to include songs by Michael Head and Reynaldo Hahn.

Vivaldi: From Ercole sul Termodonte:
Onde chiare che sussurrate
Amato ben
Fauré: Cinq mélodies 'de Venise'
Rossini: La regata veneziana
Schubert: Gondelfahrer.

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Joyce DiDonato celebrates Venice in songs by Vivaldi, Faure, Rossini and Schubert

Martin Handley presents a concert in which mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato celebrates Venice in songs by Vivaldi, Faure, Rossini and Schubert

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