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Live from the Lammermuir Festival in East Lothian, the young British baritone James Atkinson joins pianist Sholto Kynoch for a recital of music with nature at its heart.

Schumann wrote to his wife that his Liederkreis song cycle was ‘my most romantic music ever, with much of you in it, dearest Clara’ and his settings of Eichendorff’s poetry express love, memories and melancholy. Madeleine Dring’s Three Shakespeare songs follow, written in 1949 before Ravel’s settings of Renard poems, depicting four birds and a cricket.

Schumann: Liederkreis Op.39
Dring: Three Shakespeare Songs
Ravel: Histoires Naturelles

James Atkinson - Baritone
Sholto Kynoch - Piano

Kate Molleson - Presenter
Laura Metcalfe - Producer