Mark Padmore and Jonathan Biss live from Wigmore Hall

Alex Humphreys brings you an afternoon of exclusive music-making including a live concert from London's Wigmore Hall and highlights from this summer's East Neuk Festival. Mark Padmore and Jonathan Biss explore a carefully chosen program of songs by Schubert and Schumann. Their performance brings out the emotional depth and contrasts of the music, alongside the richness and meaning of the poetry.

From the East Neuk Festival, the celebrated Calidore Quartet perform chamber music by Schubert.

Elsewhere in the program, we hear music from the Baltic Sea Festival, an annual classical music festival held in Stockholm which brings together leading orchestras, conductors and musicians from around the Baltic Sea and beyond. Today’s selection opens with a contemporary work by Molly Kien, followed by two expressive works by Monteverdi and finally Dvořák’s lively Slavonic Dance No. 2.

Live from Wigmore Hall:

Franz Schubert
Der Wanderer an den Mond D870
Im Freien D880
Der Einsame D800
Der Winterabend D938

Robert Schumann
Kerner Lieder Op. 35

Mark Padmore (tenor)
Jonathan Biss (piano)

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Piano Mondays:
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concerto No. 27 K595
Imogen Cooper (piano)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Ryan Wigglesworth (conductor)

East Neuk Festival:
Franz Schubert
String Quartet No. 14 in D minor, “Death and the Maiden”
Calidore Quartet

Baltic Sea Festival:
Molly Kien
A Demon in Disguise
Swedish Radio Choir
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Andrés Orozco-Estrada, (conductor)

Baltic Sea Festival:
Claudio Monteverdi
E pur io torno qui, Ottone's aria from act 1 of 'L’incoronazione di Poppea'
Il Pomo d'Oro
Jakub Józef Orliński, (countertenor)

Baltic Sea Festival:
Claudio Monteverdi
Voglio di vita uscir, SV 337
Il Pomo d'Oro
Jakub Józef Orliński, (countertenor)

Baltic Sea Festival:
Antonín Dvořák
Slavonic Dance No. 2 in E minor, Op. 72
Czech Philharmonic
Semyon Bychkov (conductor)

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