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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: Wigmore Hall Mondays: Calefax with Cora Burggraaf

Music: Classical

Wigmore Hall: Sarah Connolly

22/09/2014

Wigmore Hall Mondays: Calefax with Cora Burggraaf

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Calefax and Cora Burggraaf (mezzo-soprano) perform Copland, Britten, Gershwin and Weill.

Live from Wigmore Hall, London. Wind arrangements and songs by Copland, Britten, Gershwin and Weill, performed by the Calefax reed quintet with mezzo-soprano Cora Burggraaf.

Live from Wigmore Hall, London. Echoes of the roaring twenties in wind arrangements of Copland's Sentimental Melody and Gershwin's An American in Paris, and popular songs by Britten and Weill, performed by Dutch virtuoso ensemble Calefax Reed Quintet and mezzo-soprano Cora Burggraaf.

Introduced by Sara Mohr-Pietsch

Copland (arr. Althuis): Sentimental Melody
Britten (arr. Althuis): Cabaret Songs - Calypso; Johnny; Tell me the truth about love; Funeral blues
Gershwin (arr. Hekkema): An American in Paris
Weill (arr. Hekkema): Youkali, Die Ballade vom ertrunkenen Mädchen; Surabaya Johnny

Calefax Reed Quintet
Cora Burggraaf (mezzo-soprano).

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