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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: LSO ST Luke's + 1 Series

Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: LSO ST Luke's + 1 Series: Episode 4: Wendy Dawn Thompson

Music: Classical

LSO ST Luke's + 1 Series

Episode 4

Episode 4: Wendy Dawn Thompson

Wendy Dawn Thompson

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Wendy Dawn Thompson and Eugene Asti perform works by Scumann and Mahler at LSO St Luke's.

From LSO St Luke's in London, Wendy Dawn Thompson and Eugene Asti perform Scumann's Frauenliebe und-Leben and three of his Mary Stuart Songs, plus songs by Mahler.

LSO St Luke's Schumann + 1 Series

Wendy Dawn Thompson (mezzo Soprano)
Eugene Asti (piano)

The last in a series of concerts featuring Schumann song cycles, recorded recently at LSO St Luke's. Today Wendy Dawn Thompson and Eugene Asti perform "Frauenliebe und -Leben", which celebrates a woman's marriage and motherhood, and closes with the sorrow of bereavement. The cycle foreshadowed the Schumann's own marriage, as Robert died young, leaving Clara to four decades of widowhood.

Also on the programme, Schumann's Mary Stuart Songs, written towards the end of his life, and songs by Mahler, the heir to Schumann and Brahms in the realm of German song.

Schumann: Frauenliebe und -leben, Op 42
Schumann: Abschied von Frankreich; An die Königin Elisabeth; Gebet (Gedichte der Königin Maria Stuart, Op 135)
Mahler: Urlicht; Ich atmet' einen linden Duft; Liebst du um Schönheit; Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen

Presented by Penny Gore.

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A series of Schumann song cycles performed at LSO St Luke's in London

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