Performance on 3 - 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