Festival Opening Concert - Schumann: Myrthen & Schubert songs

11 October 2013, 7:00pm

Birgid Steinberger (soprano)
John Mark Ainsley (tenor) 
Julius Drake (piano)

Pre-concert talk at 7.00pm by Richard Stokes free to all ticket-holders

An all-star cast and glorious repertoire from two of the mainstay composers of song make for a perfect opening to the Festival. John Mark Ainsley and Birgid Steinberger join Julius Drake for Schumann’s Myrthen – his wedding present to his beloved Clara – which contains many of his most famous songs although it is not often heard as a complete cycle. Songs by Franz Schubert complete the programme and introduce a theme of this year's Festival: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

PROGRAMME

Franz Schubert (1797-1828)

Settings of Goethe:

Erster Verlust, D226 Suleika I, D720 Suleika II, D717 Liebe schwärmt auf allen Wegen, D239   Willkommen und Abschied, D767 Schäfers Klagelied, D121 Wonne der Wehmut, D260 An den Mond, D259 Auf dem See, D543   Mignon und der Harfner, D877

INTERVAL

Robert Schumann (1810-1856)

Myrthen, Op. 25

1. Widmung
2. Freisinn
3. Der Nussbaum
4. Jemand
5. Lieder aus dem Schenkenbuch im Divan I
6. Lieder aus dem Schenkenbuch im Divan II
7. Die Lotosblume
8. Talismane
9. Lied der Suleika
10. Die Hochlander-Witwe
11. Lieder der Braut aus dem Liebesfruhling I
12. Lieder der Braut aus dem Liebesfruhling II
13. Hochlanders Abschied
14. Hochlandisches Wiegenlied
15. Aus den hebraischen Gesangen
16. Ratsel
17. Venetianische Lied 1
18. Venetianische Lied 2
19. Hauptmanns Weib
20. Weit, weit
21. Was will die einsame Trane?
22. Niemand
23. Im Westen
24. Du bist wie eine Blume
25. Aus den ostlichen Rosen
26. Zum Schluss

Series
2013 brochure

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