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Mark Padmore (tenor) and Huw Watkins (piano) perform at the 2014 Cheltenham Festival. Huw Watkins: Four Sonnets. Schumann: Dichterliebe.

In the second of this week's visits to the 2014 Cheltenham Music Festival, Mark Padmore premieres Four Sonnets, a new work by Huw Watkins and offers a fresh perspective on Schumann's song-cycle "Dichterliebe", settings of verse by Heine.

Huw Watkins Four Sonnets
Schumann Dichterliebe

Mark Padmore (tenor)
Huw Watkins (piano).

58 minutes

Music Played

  • Huw Watkins

    Four Sonnets for voice and piano - The Melancholy Year

    Performer: Huw Watkins. Singer: Mark Padmore.
  • Henry Purcell

    Now that the sun hath veiled his light, real. Britten for voice and piano [orig.

    Performer: Huw Watkins. Singer: Mark Padmore.
  • Huw Watkins

    Four Sonnets for voice and piano - Striving to sing glad songs, I but attain

    Performer: Huw Watkins. Singer: Mark Padmore.
  • Huw Watkins

    Four Sonnets for voice and piano - sonnet

    Performer: Huw Watkins. Singer: Mark Padmore.
  • Henry Purcell

    Let the night perish (Job's curse), real. Britten for voice & piano [orig. for s

    Performer: Huw Watkins. Singer: Mark Padmore.
  • Huw Watkins

    Four Sonnets for voice and piano - How can I forget

    Performer: Huw Watkins. Singer: Mark Padmore.
  • Henry Purcell

    Thou wakeful shepherd (A morning hymn), real. Britten for voice and piano

    Performer: Huw Watkins. Singer: Mark Padmore.
  • Robert Schumann

    Dichterliebe

    Singer: Huw Watkins. Singer: Mark Padmore.

Broadcast

  • Wed 6 Aug 2014 13:00