Mark Forrest showcases the best performances by BBC orchestras, choirs, ensembles and other great performing groups from Europe and around the globe.
This week on Classical Live, we have music from the Barber Lunchtime Concert Series, held in Birmingham. Countertenor Hugh Cutting and lute player Daniel Murphy together in a programme entitled 'Heartstrings', exploring love songs from composers such as Barbara Strozzi and Thomas Campion.
Mark also has a spotlight on Robert and Clara Schumann throughout the week. Today, we hear the BBC Singers perform Robert Schumann's Sechs Lieder, Op. 33 plus the centrepiece is Clara Schumann's energetic Piano Concerto performed by pianist Beatrice Rana, the Lucerne Festival Orchestra and conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Quartet in G major K.80 for strings
Chaos Quartet
Johann Sebastian Bach
Ouverture in G minor BWV1070 (attrib)
Rachel Podger (violinist)
BBC Philharmonic
Robert Schumann
Sechs Lieder, Op. 33
BBC Singers
Grace Rossiter (conductor)
Clara Schumann
Piano Concerto
Beatrice Rana (piano)
Lucerne Festival Orchestra
Yannick Nézet-Séguin (conductor)
Barbara Strozzi
Che si puó fare?
Hugh Cutting (counter tenor)
Daniel Murphy (lute)
Joaquín Rodrigo
Adela
Hugh Cutting (counter tenor)
Daniel Murphy (lute)
Robert Schumann
‘Wenn ich in deine Augen seh’ from Dichterliebe
Hugh Cutting (counter tenor)
Daniel Murphy (lute)
Thomas Campion
Never weather-beaten sail
Hugh Cutting (counter tenor)
Daniel Murphy (lute)
Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel arr. Anna Magdalena Bach
‘Bist du bei Mir’ from Diomedes
Hugh Cutting (counter tenor)
Daniel Murphy (lute)
Colin Hay
I just don’t think I’ll ever get over you
Hugh Cutting (counter tenor)
Daniel Murphy (lute)
Arvo Pärt
Spiegel im Spiegel
Alina Ibragimova (violin)
Alasdair Beatson (piano)
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