CARNEGIE HALL PRESENTS
Mark Padmore
Jonathan Biss
Performers
Mark Padmore, Tenor
Jonathan Biss, Piano
Program
ALL-SCHUBERT PROGRAMPiano Sonata in A Major, D. 959
"Im Freien," D. 880
"Die Sterne," D. 939
"Des Fischers Liebesglück," D. 933
"Der Winterabend," D. 938
"Herbst," D. 945
Selections from Schwanengesang, D. 957
·· Kriegers Ahnung
·· Aufenthalt
·· In der Ferne
·· Die Stadt
·· Am Meer
·· Der Doppelgänger
·· Die Taubenpost
Event Duration
The printed program will last approximately two hours, including one 20-minute intermission. Please note that there will be no late seating before intermission.This concert is made possible, in part, by the A. L. and Jennie L. Luria Foundation.
At a Glance
Bios
Mark Padmore
Mark Padmore was born in London and grew up in Canterbury. After beginning his musical
studies on the clarinet, he was awarded a choral scholarship to King's College, Cambridge,
and graduated with an honors degree in music. He has established an international career,
most notably through his appearances in Bach Passions--especially his acclaimed
performances as the Evangelist in both the St. Matthew and St. John
Passions with the Berliner Philharmoniker and Sir Simon Rattle, staged by Peter
Sellars.
In the opera house, Mr. Padmore has worked with directors Peter Brook, Katie Mitchell,
Mark Morris, and Deborah Warner. Recent work includes the leading roles in Harrison
Birtwistle's The Corridor and The Cure at the Aldeburgh Festival and
Linbury Studio Theatre, Covent Garden; Handel's Jephtha for the Welsh and English
national operas; Captain Vere in Britten's Billy Budd; and the Evangelist in a
staging of the St. Matthew Passion for Glyndebourne Festival Opera.
In concert, Mr. Padmore has performed with the world's leading orchestras, including the
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Berliner Philharmoniker, New
York Philharmonic, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal
Concertgebouw Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, and Orchestra of the Age of
Enlightenment.
Mr. Padmore has given recitals worldwide, performing the three Schubert song cycles in
London, Liverpool, Paris, Tokyo, Vienna, and New York City, as well as at the Schubertiade
in Schwarzenberg. His recital partners have included Jonathan Biss, Imogen Cooper, Julius
Drake, Till Fellner, Simon Lepper, Roger Vignoles, and Andrew West. Composers who have
written for Mr. Padmore include Sally Beamish, Harrison Birtwistle, Jonathan Dove, Thomas
Larcher, Nico Muhly, Alec Roth, Mark-Anthony Turnage, Huw Watkins, Ryan Wigglesworth, and
Hans Zender.
Mr. Padmore's extensive discography includes Beethoven's Missa solemnis and
Haydn's Die Schöpfung with Bernard Haitink and the Bavarian Radio Symphony
Orchestra on BR-Klassik; and lieder by Beethoven, Haydn, and Mozart with Kristian
Bezuidenhout for Harmonia Mundi. Other Harmonia Mundi recordings include As Steals the
Morn, a collection of Handel arias with The English Concert (BBC Music
Magazine Vocal Award); and Schubert cycles with Paul Lewis (Winterreise,
Gramophone Vocal Award).
Mr. Padmore was voted 2016 Vocalist of the Year by Musical America and was
awarded an honorary doctorate by University of Kent in 2014. He is artistic director of the
St. Endellion Summer Music Festival in Cornwall.
Jonathan Biss
Pianist Jonathan Biss shares his talent, passion, and intellectual curiosity with
classical music lovers in the concert hall and beyond. For more than two decades on the
concert stage, he has forged relationships with the New York Philharmonic, The Philadelphia
Orchestra, The Cleveland Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, Boston Symphony Orchestra,
Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra,
Budapest Festival Orchestra, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, and many others.
This season, Mr. Biss continues his latest Beethoven project, Beethoven/5, for
which The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra has co-commissioned five composers to write new
piano concertos, each inspired by one of Beethoven's piano concertos. The five-year plan
began last season, when Mr. Biss premiered Timo Andres's The Blind Banister, which
was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Music; he will perform the piece with the New York
Philharmonic in the spring of 2017.
In the 2016-2017 season, Mr. Biss examines, both in performance and academically, the
concept of a composer's "late style," and has put together programs of later works by Bach,
Beethoven, Brahms, Britten, Elgar, Gesualdo, Kurtág, Mozart, Schubert, and Schumann-both
for solo piano and in collaboration with the Brentano String Quartet and tenor Mark
Padmore. In addition to Carnegie Hall, he performs these programs at London's Barbican
Centre, Amsterdam's Concertgebouw, and in performances in San Francisco and at the
Philadelphia Chamber Music Society. He also gives master classes at Carnegie Hall in
connection with the "late style" project and publishes a Kindle Single on the topic in
January.
Mr. Biss has a notable recording career with recent albums for EMI winning
Diapason d'Or de l'année and Edison awards. In 2017, he will release the sixth
volume of his nine-year, nine-disk recording cycle of Beethoven's complete piano
sonatas.
Mr. Biss studied at Indiana University and the Curtis Institute of Music, where he joined
the piano faculty in 2010. He led the first massive open online course (MOOC) ever offered
by a classical music conservatory, Exploring Beethoven's Piano Sonatas, reaching
more than 150,000 people in 185 countries. His bestselling eBook Beethoven's
Shadow, published by Rosetta Books in 2011, was the first Kindle Single written by a
classical musician.