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Live from Wigmore Hall, London

Presented by Martin Handley

A concert from the Wigmore series 'Schumann: Under the Influence', in which American pianist Jonathan Biss is asserting Schumann's place in a chain of composers across the centuries, from Purcell to the present day.

Purcell: Fantasias (a selection)

Schumann: String Quartet in A minor Op. 41 No. 1

8.15: Interval

8.35: Timothy Andres: Piano Quintet (UK premiere)

Schumann: Piano Quartet in Eb Op. 47

Elias String Quartet
Jonathan Biss (piano)

Young American pianist Jonathan Biss is devoting most of his current season to the music of Robert Schumann, for whom he feels a special affinity: "Most of what I know about myself, I have learned from playing Schumann", he said recently. He feels that Schumann is often misunderstood, a one-off eccentric: his aim this season is to allow his audiences to sense Schumann's place in music history. The concert includes the UK premiere of a work by young American composer Timothy Andres, who acknowledges Brahms, Brian Eno and Radiohead as among his influences: his Piano Quintet is a five-movement piece that takes a Schumann motif as its starting point.