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Live and recorded concerts from all over the United Kingdom. Also includes the flagship Wigmore chamber music series.

Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Edinburgh 70

Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Edinburgh 70: Episode 5: Wunderlich, Souzay, Gens

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Episode 5: Wunderlich, Souzay, Gens

Edinburgh 70

Wunderlich, Souzay, Gens

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Wunderlich, Souzay and Gens sing Beethoven, Schubert and Faure.

5/12. Lyric tenor Fritz Wunderlich sings lieder by Beethoven while great interpreters of French Art song, Gerard Souzay and Veronique Gens, sing Faure and Debussy.

Lyric tenor Fritz Wunderlich sings his final performance before his untimely death aged only 35, with lieder by Beethoven and Schubert. The programme also includes two great interpreters of French Art song, past and present: from 1967 Gerard Souzay and from 2013 Veronique Gens singing mélodies by Fauré and Debussy.

Beethoven: Adelaide; Resignation; Mailied; Der Kuss
Fritz Wunderlich, tenor
Hubert Giesen, piano

Debussy: Trois Melodies sur les poems de Verlaine
Gérard Souzay, baritone 
Dalton Baldwin, piano

Fauré: Le papillon et la fleur; Au bord de l'eau; Après un rêve; Les Berceaux; Lydia; Mandoline
Véronique Gens, soprano
Susan Manoff, piano

Schubert: Der Einsame; An Sylvia; Die Forelle
Fritz Wunderlich, tenor
Hubert Giesen, piano.

Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

Series of concerts celebrating the rich history of performance at the Edinburgh

Series of concerts celebrating the rich history of performance at the Edinburgh International Festival as it marks 70 years

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