Schubertiade In Hohenems 2015 [Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert]

Penny Gore introduces concert performances from this leading chamber music festival, founded by the baritone Hermann Prey in 1976 in the small town of Hohenems, in Vorarlberg, the westernmost part of Austria.

The roster of artists appearing at the festival reads like a 'Who's Who' of the lieder and chamber music scene. And alongside established figures, the festival fosters younger talent, heard today in Schubert's late Piano Trio.

Schubert: Gondelfahrer, D809

Benjamin Bruns and Julian Pr退gardien (tenors),

Daniel Schmutzhard (baritone),

Christian Immler (bass-baritone),

Andreas Frese (piano).

Schubert: Trio in E flat major, D929

Aaron Pilsan (piano),

Mariella Haubs (violin),

Kian Soltani (cello).

Schubert: Der 23. Psalm, D706

Juliane Banse (soprano),

Mojca Erdmann (soprano),

Angelika Kirchschlager (mezzo-soprano),

Sophie Rennert (mezzo-soprano),

Helmut Deutsch (piano)

Photo of Pilsan, Haubs and Soltani (c) Schubertiade Gmb 2015.

Penny Gore with performances of Schubert's Gondelfahrer, Trio in E flat and Der 23 Psalm.

Penny Gore introduces concert performances from this leading chamber music festival, founded by the baritone Hermann Prey in 1976 in the small town of Hohenems, in Vorarlberg, the westernmost part of Austria.

Today Igor Levit plays the first of three Beethoven piano sonatas you can hear in this week's programmes, and an all-star cast of singers join forces in Schubert part songs - the beginning of a year-long project to perform all his songs at the Schubertiade.

Schubert: Das Abendrot (Der Abend bluht, der Westen gluht), D236; Das Leben, D269; Im Gegenw䀀tigen Vergangenes, D710

Beethoven: Piano Sonata No 17 in D minor, Op 31 No 2 (Tempest)

Igor Levit (piano)

Schubert: Mondenschein, D875; Coronach, D836; St䀀ndchen, D920

Mojca Erdmann (soprano),

Juliane Banse (soprano),

Angelika Kirchschlager (mezzo-soprano),

Martin Mitterrutzner (tenor),

Maximilian Schmitt (tenor),

Sophie Rennert (contralto),

Benjamin Appl (baritone),

Andr耀 Schuen (baritone),

David Steffens (bass),

Helmut Deutsch and Graham Johnson (pianos)

Photo of singers and Graham Johnson (c) Schubertiade Gmb 2015.

Penny Gore with Beethoven's Piano Sonata No 17 and a selection of Schubert partsongs.

Haydn: Quartet in B flat major. Op 76 No 4 (Sunrise)

The Jerusalem Quartet

Beethoven: Piano Sonata No 3 in C major, Op 2 No 3

Igor Levit (piano)

Photo of Igor Levit (c) Schubertiade Gmb 2015.

Penny Gore with Haydn's Quartet in B flat (Sunrise) and Beethoven's Piano Sonata No 3 in C

Beethoven: Sonata No 26 in E flat major, Op 81a (Les Adieux)

Igor Levit (piano)

Schubert: String Quartet No 13 in A minor, D804 (Rosamunde)

Pavel Haas Quartet.

Penny Gore with Beethoven's Sonata No 26 and Schubert's String Quartet No 13.