Opening Recital: Sandrine Piau & Roger Vignoles

12 October 2012, 7:00pm

 7pm (free): Pre-concert talk given by Richard Stokes

The French soprano Sandrine Piau is acclaimed throughout the world for her performances of opera and song alike. She and leading accompanist Roger Vignoles open the Festival with a selection of French song, including Debussy’s  Ariettes oublieés in this his 150th anniversary, as well as songs by Strauss, Fauré, Poulenc and Chausson. A perfect way to begin the 2012 Lieder Festival.

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PROGRAMME

Gabriel Fauré

Au bord de l’eau
Clair de Lune                    
Les berceaux
Après un rêve

Claude Debussy

Les papillons
Romance : ‘L’âme évapourée et souffrante’
Fleur des blés
Apparition

Ernest Chausson

Dans la forêt du charme et de l’enchantement         
Les  heures
Les Papillons

Claude Debussy

Fêtes Galantes I

En sourdine
Fantoches
Clair de Lune

 

INTERVAL

Claude Debussy

Ariettes Oubliées

C’est l’extase
Il pleure dans mon cœur
L’ombre des arbres
Chevaux de bois
Green
Spleen

Richard Strauss

Mädchenblumen, Op. 22

Kornblumen
Mohnblumen
Efeu
Wasserrose

Francis Poulenc

Deux poèmes de Guillaume Apollinaire

Montparnasse                   
Hyde Park

Deux poèmes de Louis Aragon

C
Fêtes galantes

Series
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12 October 2012 | 9:00am

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