From the Royal Albert Hall, London. Songs lie at the heart of this concert with two powerful arias by Beethoven and Mozart. Before that, Schubert's tenderest symphony - poignantly left incomplete - and to end, Hindemith's imaginative portrait of the Renaissance artist Mathias Grunewald.
Amanda Roocroft (soprano), Malcolm Martineau (piano), Royal Philharmonic, conductor Daniele Gatti
Schubert Symphony No 8 in B minor (Unfinished)
Beethoven Ah! Perfido
8.10 The Flesh Made Word
The last of five interval talks on religion and language. Poet and novelist Michele Roberts laments the way male-dominated religions have tried to stifle and control important parts of our humanity - imagination, creation, passion and sex.
8.30 Mozart Ch'io Mi Scordi di Te? K505
Hindemith Symphony Mathis der Maler