Coffee Concert I – Songs by Wagner and Duparc by Various, ket 08 rgs 2022, Nuo (2022/2022)

The Coffee concerts are back! Start the perfect Festival day with good coffee and irresistible cakes from master Konditormeister Falko Burkert paired with terrific bite-sized concerts. This year one of the finest accompanists in the world Malcolm Martineau has devised four programmes in partnership with BBC Radio 3 performing all 16 of Duparc’s gorgeously romantic songs threaded through four richly varied recitals by major singers, including songs by Richard Strauss, Mahler, Wagner, Ravel, Debussy, Wolf, Liszt and Quilter. Our Duparc series begins with four great songs paired with Wagner’s intoxicating Wesendonk Songs and performed by world-class mezzo Jennifer Johnston who won the 2021 Royal Philharmonic Society Singer of the Year Award. Jennifer Johnston has one of the most generous and beautiful voices in the business Prospect