04/11/2008

Tom Service presents one of the great pianist Alfred Brendel's final recitals recorded at the Aldeburgh Festival 2008, with a programme of music linking four of the composers closest to him over his 60-year career.

Alfred Brendel (piano)

Haydn: Andante and Variations in F minor
Mozart: Sonata in F, K533/494
Beethoven: Sonata in E flat, Op 27 No 1 (Quasi una fantasia)
Schubert: Sonata in B flat, D960

Encores:
Bach: Italian Concerto slow movement
Liszt:
Annees de pelerinage, 1st year, Switzerland
2. Au lac de Wallenstadt (At the Lake of Wallenstadt)
Schubert: G-flat major Impromptu

Followed by the second of this week's Schumann Focus:

Schumann: Five Lieder, Op 40
Christianne Stotijn (mezzo-soprano)
Joseph Breinl (piano)
Recorded for New Generation Artists in 2006

Schumann: Album fur die Jugend, nos. 37 & 39
Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli (piano)
EMI 2060052
CD.4, tr.8-9