Mark Padmore and Jonathan Biss live from Wigmore Hall

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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 in Scotland, 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) *** 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) To listen to this programme (using most smart speakers), just say "Ask BBC Sounds to play Classical Live".