Longing for Nature
13 October 2024, 4:00pm - 5:00pm
Sarah Wegener and Götz Payer gave a sensational recital of Strauss songs at the 2022 Festival, unforgettable for all those lucky enough to attend. We are thrilled to welcome them back for this beautifully curated programme. From the bliss of the forest expressed in music by Schumann, Alma Mahler and Max Reger, to the beauty of the night in Strauss’s ‘Die Nacht’ and the allure of the sea in songs by Rebecca Clarke and Alban Berg, the central theme is a profound yearning for contact with the natural world.
Programme
- Robert Schumann (1810 - 1856)
- Waldesgespräch (1840) Op. 39 no.3 1–20.v & 22.vi.1840 from Liederkreis
- Anton von Webern (1883 - 1945)
- Helle Nacht
- Alma Mahler (Schindler-Mahler) (1879 - 1964)
- Laue Sommernacht (1910) from Fünf Lieder (Mahler, Alma)
- Waldseligkeit (1915) Op. 49 no.1 from Vier Lieder (Mahler, Alma)
- Joseph Marx (1882 - 1964)
- Waldseligkeit (1911)
- Max Reger (1873 - 1916)
- Waldseligkeit Op. 62 no.2
- Erich Korngold (1897 - 1957)
- Sommer (1913) Op. 9 no.6 from 6 Einfache Lieder
- Arnold Schoenberg (1874 - 1951)
- Waldsonne (1899) Op. 2 no.4 from Vier Lieder
- Waldesnacht
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- Richard Strauss (1864 - 1949)
- Die Nacht (1885) Op. 10 no.3 from 8 Gedichte aus ‘Letzte Blätter’
- Alban Berg (1885 - 1935)
- Schilflied (1907) from Sieben frühe Lieder
- Gustav Mahler (1860 - 1911)
- Phantasie aus Don Juan (1880) no.5 1880-1883 from Lieder und Gesänge aus der Jugendzeit
- Rebecca Clarke (1886 - 1979)
- The Seal Man (1922)
- Frank Bridge (1879 - 1941)
- Come to me in my dreams (1906) H.71
- Liza Lehmann (1862 - 1918)
- There are Fairies at the Bottom of our Garden
- Wolseley Charles (1889 - 1962)
- The Green-Eyed Dragon
