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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: Mezzo-soprano Kitty Whately celebrates the words and music of women

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Mezzo-soprano Kitty Whately celebrates the words and music of women

BBC Radio 3 - Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert, Mezzo-soprano Kitty Whately celebrates the words and music of women

Kitty Whately sings settings of works by some of the best-loved female poets and writers.

Kitty Whately and Simon Lepper perform settings of works by 20th-century's female poets and writers including Ursula Vaughan Williams, Virginia Woolf and Margaret Atwood.

Live from Wigmore Hall, London, presented by Sara Mohr-Pietsch. Kitty Whately and Simon Lepper present a programme of English Song settings of some of the 20th-century’s best-loved female poets and writers, including Ursula Vaughan Williams, Virginia Woolf, Edna St. Vincent Millay and Margaret Atwood.

Introduced by Sara Mohr-Pietsch.

Jonathan Dove: All the Future Days (Autobiography; Penelope; The Siren)
Ralph Vaughan Williams: 4 Last Songs
Judith Cloud: Night Dreams (Variations on the Word Sleep)
Lori Laitman: Orange Afternoon Lover (I Was Reading a Scientific Article)
Dominick Argento: From the Diary of Virginia Woolf (Anxiety)
Rebecca Clarke: Lethe
Juliana Hall: Letters from Edna (To Harriet Monroe; To Mother)
Jonathan Dove: Nights Not Spent Alone

Kitty Whately (mezzo-soprano)
Simon Lepper (piano)

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