A Heine Liederkreis: Julien Van Mellaerts & Gamal Khamis
26 October 2018, 1:05pm 31 May 2025 - 7:10pm
Presented in association with the Kathleen Ferrier Awards
Julien Van Mellaerts achieved the impressive feat in 2017 of winning both the Kathleen Ferrier Awards and the Wigmore Hall International Song Competition. Today, he and Gamal Khamis perform Schumann’s glorious settings of Heine, his Liederkreis Op.24. They also present two songs by Ross Griffey, setting Rupert Brooke, Shakespeare settings by Korngold and Charles Ives songs to German texts by Rückert and Heine.
Programme
- Robert Schumann (1810 - 1856)
- Liederkreis (1840) Op. 24
- Ross Griffey
- Dead Men's Love (2013)
- Beauty and Beauty (2013)
- Charles Ives (1874 - 1954)
- Feldeinsamkeit (1900) Op. 86 no.2
- Widmung (1897) Op. 25 no.1 i–early iv 1840
- Ich grolle nicht (1899) Op. 48 no.7
- Erich Korngold (1897 - 1957)
- Songs of the Clown (1943) Op. 29
