German baritone Dietrich Henschel brings his wide experience on the opera stage to his dramatic, heartfelt concert performances, in which he truly embodies the emotions of his songs. His welcome return to the Festival is in a programme of rich, passionate late-Romantic song.

He is joined by the acclaimed Scottish pianist Steven Osborne, praised widely for his dazzling pianism, his characterful, nuanced interpretations and the restrained intensity of his playing.

Alongside poignant settings of Byron and Michelangelo by Wolf, Henschel and Osborne perform evocative songs from both ends of Korngold’s career: four remarkable Lieder written when the composer was just a teenager, and three later songs that draw on his well-loved film scores. The powerful Jedermann Monologues by Frank Martin are among the composer’s most moving creations, dealing with mortality, faith and redemption. Henschel contrasts them with four of Mahler’s vivid folk-poetry settings from Des Knaben Wunderhorn