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Edinburgh International Festival: 2018 Queen's Hall Series: Catriona Morison and Simon Lepper

Catriona Morison and Simon Lepper

15/08/2018

2018 Queen's Hall Series

BBC Radio 3 - Edinburgh International Festival, 2018 Queen's Hall Series, Catriona Morison and Simon Lepper

Mezzo-soprano Catriona Morison and pianist Simon Lepper in Brahms, Schumann and Mahler

Live from the Queen's Hall in Edinburgh, New Generation Artist mezzo-soprano Catriona Morison and pianist Simon Lepper perform songs by Brahms, Schumann, Mahler and Korngold.

Mezzo-soprano Catriona Morison, the first British winner of the Cardiff Singer of the World competition and a Radio 3 New Generation Artist, makes her festival debut in her home city of Edinburgh. Renowned pianist Simon Lepper joins her for a dramatic recital featuring a group of songs by Brahms and Schumann's final song cycle. After the interval, Mahler's evocative Rückert Lieder sits alongside settings of Dehmel and Shakespeare poetry in Korngold's Fünf Lieder.

Brahms: Wie Melodien; Dein blaues Auge; Therese; Mädchenlied; An die Nachtigall; Meine liebe is Grün; Alte Liebe; Immer leise; Geheimnis; Von ewiger Liebe
Schumann: Gedichte der Königin Maria Stuart

Interval at around 11.40am
Donald Macleod looks ahead to next Thursday (23rd August) when violinist James Ehnes makes a welcome return to the Festival and teams up with Scottish-born pianist Steven Osborne. James Ehnes plays J S Bach: Partita for solo violin No. 3 in E major from his album released in 2016.



Mahler: Rückert Lieder
Korngold: Fünf Lieder, Op. 38

Catriona Morison - mezzo-soprano
Simon Lepper - piano 


Presenter: Donald Macleod
Producer: Lindsay Pell

Edinburgh International Festival: 2018 Queen's Hall Series

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Concerts from the Queen's Hall in Edinburgh at the 2018 Edinburgh International Festival.

Concerts given at the Queen's Hall in Edinburgh as part of the 2018 Edinburgh International Festival.

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