Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte
18 October 2024, 5:15pm - 6:15pm
The Brahms Piano Quintet is one of the great masterpieces of the chamber music repertoire, and we are thrilled to welcome Ensemble 360, one of the country’s top ensembles, to perform it for us this evening. They are joined by the great German baritone Dietrich Henschel for a rare performance of Schoenberg’s riveting Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte, which was composed in the US in 1942 and whose text by Byron was chosen for its theme of struggle against tyranny and oppression.
Programme
- Johannes Brahms (1833 - 1897)
- Piano Quintet in F minor Op. 34
- Arnold Schoenberg (1874 - 1951)
- Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte
- 'Tis done - but yesterday a King!
- Ill-minded man!
- Thanks for that lesson
- The triumph and the vanity
- The Desolator desolate!
- He who of old would rend the oak
- The Roman, when his burning heart
- The Spaniard, when the lust of sway
- But thou - from thy reluctant hand
- And Earth hath spilt her blood for him
- Thine evil deeds are writ in gore
- Weigh'd in the balance
- And she, proud Austria's mournful flower
- Then haste thee to thy sullen Isle
- Thou Timour! in his captive's cage
- Or, like the thief of fire from heaven
- There was a day - there was an hour
- But thou forsooth must be a king
- Where may the wearied eye repose
Artists
Series
11 October 2024 | 12:00am
Cities of Song [Festival 2024]
Festival Passes
Festival Passes Available:
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Week 1 Festival Pass
Week 2 Festival Pass
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