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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: Sophie Bevan sings Berlioz and Debussy

Sophie Bevan sings Berlioz and Debussy

BBC Radio 3 - Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert, Sophie Bevan sings Berlioz and Debussy

Live from Wigmore Hall, soprano Sophie Bevan sings song cycles by Berlioz and Debussy.

Live from London's Wigmore Hall, Sophie Bevan sings Berlioz's Les nuits d'été and Debussy's Cinq poèmes de Charles Baudelaire, two cornerstones of the French Romantic repertoire.

Live from Wigmore Hall: Sophie Bevan sings Berlioz and Debussy. 

The acclaimed soprano offers a treat for all lovers of French song in a programme that contains two of the cornerstones of the Romantic repertoire. Berlioz's settings of his friend and neighbour, Théophile Gautier tells of love unrequited or lost, whilst Debussy's settings of Baudelaire reveal a composer coming to terms with the notorious complexities of Baudelaire's poetry in music of Wagnerian amplitude. 

Presented by Andrew McGregor

Debussy: Cinq poèmes de Charles Baudelaire
Berlioz: Les nuits d'été Op.7

Sophie Bevan (soprano), 
Ryan Wigglesworth (piano)

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