Behind the lines

19 October 2026, 7:00pm - 8:30pm

Anna Prohaska is hailed the world over for her remarkable singing and vivid performances across a wide range of styles. We’re thrilled that she will appear at the Festival for the first time, joined by the eminent pianist Eric Schneider. Their programme, recorded for Deutsche Grammophon, is set in the past but speaks of the present: wartime texts set to music by composers from Michael Cavendish in the 16th century to Wolfgang Rihm in the 20th, via Beethoven, Poulenc, Weill and others. An unmissable evening.

Programme

Trad.
Es geht ein dunkle Wolk herein

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827)
Die Trommel gerühret from Egmont, Op.84

Hanns Eisler (1898 - 1962)
Kriegslied eines Kindes Op. 11 no. 4 from Zeitungsausschnitte

Hugo Wolf (1860 - 1903)
Der Tambour (1888) No.5 from Mörike-Lieder
Der Soldat II (1886) no.6 from Gedichte von Joseph von Eichendorff

Sergei Rachmaninov (1873 - 1943)
Poljubila ja ('The Soldier's Wife') (1893) Op. 8 no.4

Thomas Traill (1600 - 1671)
My Luve’s in Germanie

Charles Ives (1874 - 1954)
1. In Flanders Fields from Three Songs of War
1, 2, 3
3. Tom Sails Away from Three Songs of War

Roger Quilter (1877 - 1953)
Fear no more the heat o' the sun

Hanns Eisler (1898 - 1962)
Planzerschlacht
Die letzte Elegie
Die Heimkehr

Michael Cavendish (1565 - 1628)
Wandering in this place

Franz Schubert (1797 - 1828)
Kriegers Ahnung D957b from Schwanengesang
Ellens Gesang I (1825) D837 from Sieben Gesänge aus Walter Scotts ‘Fräulein vom See’