Goethe Study Day
12 October 2013, 10:00am - 3:00pm
The first week of this year’s Festival features many settings of the great German poet and polymath Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Today’s study day examines his towering influence in all areas of culture and especially music. The two lectures and accompanying recital should be fascinating to all, both those familiar with Goethe’s work and those interested to find out more. The subsequent 8pm concert continues our exploratin of this remarkable man. Save by buying a Day Pass to all events on this day.
Schedule of the day:
11am – Coffee and welcome
11.30am – Introduction to Goethe, given by Jim Reed, Taylor Professor of German Language and Literature, Queen’s College, Oxford.
12.30pm – Lunch. A light lunch will be available for purchase.
1.10pm – Recital given by Klemens Sander (baritone) & Deirdre Brenner (piano)
Settings of Goethe by Schubert, Beethoven, Loewe, Medtner, Liszt and Ives. (Full programme below)
This recital is generously sponsored by the Austrian Cultural Forum
Prize-winning baritone Klemens Sander is one of Austria’s brightest emerging stars, appearing regularly at the Theater an der Wien. He is joined by exceptional American pianist Deirdre Brenner in a programme that dwells half on the peerless settings of Goethe by Franz Schubert, while also exploring some lesser-known settings by a range of other composers.
2.30pm – Schubert & Goethe, given by John Warren (previously head of German and Austrian studies at Oxford Brookes University), including a discussion from the performer’s perspective with Klemens Sander and Deirdre Brenner.
4pm – End
Lunchtime Concert Programme
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Sehnsucht, Op. 83, no. 2
Nikolai Medtner (1880-1951)
Selbstbetrug
Liszt (1811-1886)
Freudvoll und Leidvoll
Nikolai Medtner
Der Untreue Knabe
Wolf (1860-1903)
Anakreons Grab
Hanns Eisler (1898-1962)
Was ich dort gelebt
Carl Loewe (1796-1869)
Der Schatzgräber
Othmar Schoeck (1886-1957)
Dämmrung senkte sich von oben
Charles Ives (1874-1954)
Ilmenau
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Auf dem See, D 543b
Der Fischer, D 225
Nähe des Geliebten, D 162
Ganymed, D 544
Gesänge des Harfners, D 479
1. Wer sich der Einsamkeit ergibt
2. Wer nie sein Brot mit Tränen aß
3. An die Türen will ich schleichen
Prometheus, D674
Series
11 October 2013 | 9:00am