This concert was live-streamed as part of the Summer 2022 Series. The video is no longer online but other concerts are available to watch in full here: Wigmore Hall Concert Video Library

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Finished in 1903, Debussy’s Estampes (‘Prints’) is a three-movement impressionist suite, with each movement influenced by distinct sound worlds: Indonesian gamelan music; the Arabic scale and strumming Spanish guitar; and French folk melodies. Schumann’s Symphonic Studies began life as a theme and variations on a theme by Baron von Fricken, whose ward Ernestine was once briefly (and secretly) engaged to the composer.