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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 - Elizabeth Watts and Julius Drake

Music: Classical

Wigmore Hall Mondays - Elizabeth Watts and Julius Drake in Liszt, Debussy and Hahn

26/10/2015

Wigmore Hall Mondays - Elizabeth Watts and Julius Drake

BBC Radio 3 - Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert, Wigmore Hall Mondays - Elizabeth Watts and Julius Drake

Soprano Elizabeth Watts and pianist Julius Drake perform songs by Liszt, Debussy and Hahn.

Live from Wigmore Hall in London, soprano Elizabeth Watts and pianist Julius Drake perform songs by Liszt, Debussy and Hahn.

Live from Wigmore Hall, London, soprano Elizabeth Watts and pianist Julius Drake perform songs by Liszt, Debussy and Hahn.

Liszt: 
Enfant, si j'étais roi, S283
S'il est un charmant gazon, S284/1
Comment, disaient-ils, S276
La tombe et la rose, S285
Quand tu chantes bercée, S306a
Oh! quand je dors, S282

Debussy: Ariettes oubliées

Hahn:
Rêverie
Si mes vers avaient des ailes
L'Incrédule
Fêtes galantes

Elizabeth Watts, soprano
Julius Drake, piano

Elizabeth Watts has forged an outstanding artistic partnership with Julius Drake over the past decade. Their lunchtime recital explores three distinctive responses to the poetry of Paul Verlaine and Victor Hugo, complementing the seductive soundworld of Debussy's Ariettes oubliées with an exquisite selection of songs by Hahn, and Liszt's impassioned Hugo settings.

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