Rückert Lieder
13 October 2024, 7:00pm - 8:45pm
Generously supported by Sir Martin & Lady Elise Smith
Dame Sarah Connolly’s recitals are an annual highlight of the Festival. She and Joseph Middleton perform the extraordinary Rückert Lieder, written by Mahler in the first two summers of the 20th century, while he was staying at his rural lakeside retreat in Maiernigg: immersed in nature and escaping the frantic pace of Vienna. Their programme also includes songs by Brahms, Debussy’s scandalous Chansons de Bilitis, and a selection of pastoral English songs by Bridge, Moeran, Gurney and Ireland.
Programme
- Johannes Brahms (1833 - 1897)
- Ständchen (1885) Op. 106 no.1
- Da unten im Tale WoO 33 no.6 from 49 Deutsche Volkslieder
- O kühler Wald (1877) Op. 72 no.3
- Gustav Mahler (1860 - 1911)
- Rückert-Lieder (1901) 1901-1902
- Claude Debussy (1862 - 1918)
- Chansons de Bilitis (1897) 1897-1898
- Frank Bridge (1879 - 1941)
- Day after day
- Speak to me, my love
- Ernest John Moeran (1894 - 1950)
- Twilight (1920)
- Ivor Gurney (1890 - 1937)
- Thou didst delight my eyes (1921)
- John Ireland (1879 - 1962)
- Earth's Call (1918)
