The Orient Express
13 October 2025, 5:15pm - 6:15pm
From 1930 to 1962, the Arlberg Orient Express offered passengers a lavish, glamorous journey all the way from London to either Athens or Bucharest. French baritone Benoît Déchelotte and Swiss pianist Sarah Murer travel this route in song, with composers from the cities along the famed railway route and songs that encapsulate the thrill of travel and exploration.
Programme
- Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872 - 1958)
- Let Beauty awake (1904) from Songs of Travel (1904)
- Roger Quilter (1877 - 1953)
- My life's delight (1908) Op. 12 no.2 from Seven Elizabethan Lyrics
- Francis Poulenc (1899 - 1963)
- Carte postale from Quatre poèmes de Guillaume Apollinaire
- Avant le cinéma from Quatre poèmes de Guillaume Apollinaire
- 1904 from Quatre poèmes de Guillaume Apollinaire
- Jacques Ibert (1890 - 1962)
- ii. Tiède azur from La verdure dorée
- iii. Cette grande chambre from La verdure dorée
- Othmar Schoeck (1886 - 1957)
- Wanderlied der Prager Studenten (1908)
- Johanna Müller-Hermann (1878 - 1941)
- Willst Du mit mir wandern (1907) Op. 2
- Polka Op. 14
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- Alban Berg (1885 - 1935)
- Vier Gesänge (1910) Op. 2 1840
- Béla Bartók (1881 - 1945)
- ii. Nyár, 'Summer' from Five Songs
- Paul Constantinescu (1909 - 1963)
- Cântec de adormit mitura (1929)
- Georges Enescu (1881 - 1955)
- vi. Changeons propos from Sept chansons de Clément Marot
