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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: Schumann's Kerner Lieder and David's Bruce's Gumboots  at St George's Bristol

Music: Classical

Schumann's Kerner Lieder and David's Bruce's Gumboots  at St George's Bristol

BBC Radio 3 - Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert, Schumann's Kerner Lieder and David's Bruce's Gumboots  at St George's Bristol

Mark Padmore sings Schumann and clarinettist Julian Bliss joins the Carducci Quartet.

Schumann's Kerner Lieder, performed by Mark Padmore with Julius Drake, and clarinettist Julian Bliss joins the Carducci Quartet in David Bruce's Gumboots at St George's Bristol.

Georgia Mann introduces further highlights from a series of concerts given at St George's Bristol earlier this year. Today renowned tenor Mark Padmore returns with pianist Julius Drake to perform Schumann's Kerner Lieder, written when the composer was enjoying a particularly fruitful year of song-writing and the clarinettist Julian Bliss joins the award-winning Carducci quartet for the contemporary American composer David's Bruce's "Gumboots", a piece that was inspired by South African miners and dance rhythms.

David Bruce: Gumboots
Julian Bliss, clarinet
Carducci Quartet

Schumann: Kerner Lieder, Op 35
Mark Padmore, tenor
Julius Drake, piano.

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