Christian Gerhaher and Gerold Huber readily access areasof imagination and insight that are off-limits to all but themost enlightened artists. Their latest Wigmore Hall recitalopens with Dvořák’s Biblical Songs, ten uplifting settingsin Czech of Psalms extracted from the Bible of Kralice, alandmark of the Protestant Reformation.

Matters spiritualalso arise in Schumann’s ‘Requiem’, the ‘old Catholicpoem’, which the composer added to his settings of sixpoems by Nikolaus Lenau.

The programme’s second halfincludes three mature Schumann Lieder and his earlysequence of a dozen songs to poems by Justinus Kerner.

Following this concert, Christian Gerhaher will bepresented with The Wigmore Medal, in recognitionof his outstanding contribution to Wigmore Hallover the past 15 years.