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Presented by Martin Handley.

From the Cadogan Hall in London, the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House under its Music Director, Antonio Pappano, in a concert offering rare insights into the music of Mahler and Wagner. But it's Pappano the pianist who opens the concert when he directs Mahler's Piano Quartet in A minor - the composer's only chamber work - which was written when the composer was just 16. Wagner's Siegfried Idyll was an intimate and passionate gift to his wife Cosima after the birth of their son with the musicians famously standing on the stairs of the Wagner House to serenade Cosima and her baby. The programme ends with Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde - but as seen through the eyes of Schoenberg, who made a delightful chamber version of this monumental cycle of songs. It is performed tonight by soloists tenor Klaus Florian Vogt and baritone Thomas Hampson.

Mahler - Piano Quartet Movement in A minor
Wagner - Siegfried Idyll
Mahler - Das Lied von der Erde (chamber version, arranged by Schoenberg, completed by Rainer Riehn)

Klaus Florian Vogt, tenor
Thomas Hampson, baritone
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
Antonio Pappano, conductor/piano

Followed by another instalment of a recital given by soprano Amanda Roocroft, accompanied by pianist Malcolm Martineau, all part of the Wigmore Hall's 100 Years of German Song series. Liszt, Cornelius, Jensen, Bruch and Brahms are the composers featured throughout the week as the cycle reaches the 1860-1870 decade.