lain Burnside looks at the public and private faces of Schubert. This third programme features the inexorable tread of Schubert's favourite rhythmic motif, heard in two songs of the night, a grisly tale of murder on a boat, a piano duet, and the song Death and the Maiden, on which the composer based an extended movement of variations for string quartet.
Die Sterne, D939 Elly Ameling
(soprano), Dalton Baldwin (piano)
Der Tod und das Madchen Janet Baker
(mezzo), Geoffrey Parsons (piano)
String Quartet in D minor, D810
(Death and the Maiden) (2nd mvt) Amadeus Quartet
Der Zwerg Jessye Norman (soprano), Irwin Gage (piano)
Wandrers Nachtlied II Bryn Terfel
(baritone), Malcolm Martineau (piano) Variations on an Original Theme, D813 Daniel Barenboim and Radu Lupu (piano duet)
Repeated next Wednesday 12 midnight