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Vivaldi, Faure, Rossini, Schubert

Duration:
2 hours, 30 minutes
First broadcast:
Friday 06 July 2012

Live from the Wigmore Hall
Presented by Martin Handley
Mezzo-soprano Joyce Didonato celebrates Venice in songs by Vivaldi, Fauré, Rossini and Schubert.
One of the world's great singers, DiDonato, accompanied by pianist David Zobel, begins the programme with masterpieces of the baroque and 19th-century bel canto, and extends it outwards to include songs by Michael Head and Reynaldo Hahn.

Vivaldi: From Ercole sul Termodonte:
Onde chiare che sussurrate
Amato ben
Fauré: Cinq mélodies 'de Venise'
Rossini: La regata veneziana
Schubert: Gondelfahrer.

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