
Forbidden Fruit
14 October 2023, 7:45pm - 9:00pm
The Music The forbidden fruit in the Garden of Eden, with its irresistible spell and temptation to disobey, has long been a symbol for man's immoral, illegal, or illicit desires. This programme, taken from Benjamin Appl’s forthcoming CD recording, takes us from simple folk songs through to the great song composers such as Schumann and Wolf, ‘Impressionists’ such as Debussy and Poulenc, and back to ‘New Objectivity’ (see Event 7) via Kurt Weill and Hanns Eisler, all exploring the blurred lines of forbidden desires and sinful pleasures.
The Artists Benjamin Appl is one of today’s most exciting singers, whose performances never fail to captivate. His voice has ‘an almost infinite range of colours’ (Süddeutsche Zeitung) and ‘singing is his most natural mode of expression’ (BBC Music Magazine). For this concert, he is joined by our Artistic Director, pianist Sholto Kynoch.
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Programme
- Gabriel Fauré (1845 - 1924)
- In paradisum (1948) Op. 48 from Requiem
- Hugo Wolf (1860 - 1903)
- Ganymed (1891) no.50 from Goethe-Lieder
- Kurt Weill (1900 - 1950)
- Youkali
- Francis Poulenc (1899 - 1963)
- L’offrande
- Reynaldo Hahn (1873 - 1947)
- A Chloris (1960)
- Richard Strauss (1864 - 1949)
- Das Rosenband (1897) Op. 36 no.1
- Hugo Wolf (1860 - 1903)
- An die Geliebte (1888) No. 32 from Mörike-Lieder
- Roger Quilter (1877 - 1953)
- Now sleeps the crimson petal (1904) Op. 3 no.2
- Hugo Wolf (1860 - 1903)
- Und willst du deinen Liebsten sterben sehen (1892) no.17 from Italienisches Liederbuch
- Claude Debussy (1862 - 1918)
- La chevelure (1897) from Chansons de Bilitis
- Francis Poulenc (1899 - 1963)
- Couplets bachiques FP 42 no.5
- Arnold Schoenberg (1874 - 1951)
- Arie aus dem Spiegel von Arcadien / Seit ich so viele Weiber sah / Langsamer Walzer (1901) from Brettl-Lieder (Cabaret Songs)
- Leonello Casucci (1885 - 1975)
- Just a Gigolo
- Edvard Grieg (1843 - 1907)
- To a Devil
- Francis Poulenc (1899 - 1963)
- Le serpent FP 15b/1
- Robert Schumann (1810 - 1856)
- Loreley (1840) Op.53 no.2 iv.1840 from Romanzen und Balladen, iii
- Frühlingsfahrt (1840) Op. 45 no.2 31.x–5.xi.1840 from Romanzen und Balladen, i
- Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel (1805 - 1847)
- Die Nonne Op. 9 no.12
- Lothar Brühne (1900 - 1958)
- Kann denn Liebe Sünde sein
- Jake Heggie (1961)
- The snake from Eve-Song
- Franz Schubert (1797 - 1828)
- Heidenröslein (1815) D257
- Gretchen am Spinnrade (1814) D118
- Hanns Eisler (1898 - 1962)
- Abortion Song
- Robert Schumann (1810 - 1856)
- Wer nie sein Brot mit Tränen ass (1849) Op. 98a no.4 v–vii 1849 from Lieder und Gesänge aus Wilhelm Meister
- Gustav Mahler (1860 - 1911)
- Urlicht (1892) from Des Knaben Wunderhorn
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