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Edinburgh International Festival

Music: Classical

Ronald Brautigam, Esther Hoppe & Christian Poltéra

Series of broadcasts from the Edinburgh International Festival

Edinburgh International Festival: 2017 Queen's Hall Series

Edinburgh International Festival: 2017 Queen's Hall Series: Episode 5: Karen Cargill and Simon Lepper

Episode 5

Episode 5: Karen Cargill and Simon Lepper

2017 Queen's Hall Series

Karen Cargill and Simon Lepper

BBC Radio 3 - Edinburgh International Festival, 2017 Queen's Hall Series, Karen Cargill and Simon Lepper

Karen Cargill and Simon Lepper perform sensual French songs by Debussy and Chausson.

Mezzo-soprano Karen Cargill and pianist Simon Lepper perform sensual French songs by Debussy, Chausson, Duparc and Hahn alongside Wagner's highly-charged Wesendock Lieder.

The Internationally renowned Scottish mezzo-soprano Karen Cargill makes her EIF Queen's Hall debut appearance. With her regular musical partner Simon Lepper, they perform a sensual and delicate selection of songs of Chassson, Hahn, Duparc and Debussy alongside Wagner's highly-charged and romantic Wesendonck lieder. Wagner based these songs on poems by Mathilde Wesendonck with whom he had fallen in love and the music reflects much to be found later in his opera Tristan and Isolde.

Presented by Donald Macleod

Hahn: A Chloris; Le Rossignol des lilas; L'Enamourée; Infidelité; Les Fontaines 
Debussy: Trois Chansons de Bilitis 
Chausson: Le Charme; Sérénade italienne; Le Colibri; Les Papillons

INTERVAL at around 11.35am
Donald Macleod takes a look ahead to next week when Swiss pianist Andreas Haefliger will perform at the Festival and introduces his recording of Beethoven Piano Sonata No 32 in C minor, Op 111 

Duparc: L'Invitation au voyage; Chanson triste; Extase; Phidylé
Wagner: Wesendonck Lieder

Karen Cargill (mezzo-soprano)
Simon Lepper (piano).

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Concerts from the Queen's Hall in Edinburgh for the 2017 Edinburgh International Festival.

Concerts given at the Queen's Hall in Edinburgh as part of the 2017 Edinburgh International Festival

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