Roderick Williams, baritone and Iain Burnside, piano by Various, から (2018/2018), St George's Hall Concert Room, Liverpool, United Kingdom

"You have never seen me sad; let it not happen now, on parting…” Schubert’s Schwanengesangcollects the last thoughts of one of music’s noblest spirits. Tender, heartfelt and profound, it’s a whole music-drama in miniature. And you’ll never hear it sung with more understanding or love than by two of the world’s greatest living interpreters of lieder: Roderick Williams and the incomparable Iain Burnside. The evening opens with the first ever song cycle by a major composer, Beethoven's 'To the Distant Beloved'.