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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: 2018 Hay Festival - Mendelssohn Plus performed by Soraya Mafi and Simon Lepper

2018 Hay Festival - Mendelssohn Plus performed by Soraya Mafi and Simon Lepper

BBC Radio 3 - Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert, 2018 Hay Festival - Mendelssohn Plus performed by Soraya Mafi and Simon Lepper

Sarah Walker presents Mendelssohn Plus performed by Soraya Mafi and Simon Lepper.

Sarah Walker presents Mendelssohn Plus performed by soprano Soraya Mafi and pianist Simon Lepper at the 2018 Hay Festival.

Sarah Walker presents Mendelssohn Plus, with music performed by the soprano Soraya Mafi and the pianist Simon Lepper, recorded at St Mary's Church, Hay-on-Wye, during the 2018 Hay Festival. Included in the concert are a number of songs by Felix Mendelssohn such as his popular Auf Flugeln des Gesanges, On wings of song, as well as music by Robert and Clara Schumann, and Richard Strauss. Soraya Mafi also performs songs by Mendelssohn's sister, Fanny Hensel, including a romantic contemplation, Die Mainacht, and a collection of four songs by Johanna Muller-Hermann setting poems by Ricarda Huch, and two texts by the composer herself.

Soraya Mafi, soprano
Simon Lepper, piano

Mendelssohn: Auf Flugeln des Gesanges, Op 34 No 2
Hensel: Warum sind denn die Rosen so blass, Op 1 No 3
Mendelssohn: Sechs Lieder ohne Worte Op 30 No 3 (Adagio non troppo)
Hensel: Die Mainacht, Op 9 No 6
Hensel: Vier Lieder ohne Worte Op 8 No 3 (Larghetto - Lied)
Mendelssohn: Suleika, Op 34 No 4
Robert Schumann: Lied der Suleika, Op 25 No 9
Clara Schumann: Liebst du um Schonheit, Op 12 No 2
Robert Schumann: Widmung, Op 25 No 1
Muller-Hermann: Vier Lieder, Op 2
Richard Strauss: Schlagende Herzen, Op 29 No 2
Richard Strauss: Das Rosenband, Op 36 No 1
Richard Strauss: Standchen, Op 17 No 2
Richard Strauss: Morgen, Op 27 No 4

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