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Edinburgh International Festival: Queen's Hall Series: Florian Boesch and Malcolm Martineau

Florian Boesch and Malcolm Martineau

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Schubert's song cycle Die schöne Müllerin from 2016

Baritone Florian Boesch and pianist Malcolm Martineau perform Schubert's song cycle of unrequited love Die schöne Müllerin at the 2016 Edinburgh International Festival.

Every weekday for three weeks, Radio 3 broadcasts one of the stand-out concerts from the Queen’s Hall over the past decade.  Today Jamie MacDougall presents Grammy nominated Austrian baritone Florian Boesch and Scottish pianist Malcolm Martineau in a recital of Schubert's song cycle of unrequited love ‘Die schöne Müllerin’, from the 2016 Edinburgh International Festival. Schubert's first song cycle is based on the poems by Wilhelm Müller and tells the story of a young man who falls in love with a miller's daughter and his personal tragedy as she falls in love with someone else. The story is told from the young's man's perspective and the final lullaby from the brook which led him to her implies that he drowns himself in despair. However, Florian Boesch has a more optimistic reading of the ending to this most romantic of stories.

Schubert: Die schöne Müllerin

Florian Boesch - baritone
Malcolm Martineau - piano


Photograph - Andreas Weiss

Edinburgh International Festival: Queen's Hall Series

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Stand-out concerts from the Queen's Hall in Edinburgh over the past decade.

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