"Weihnachtslieder": Late-Romantic Christmas Songs

03 December 2011, 6:00pm - 7:00pm

The recital will feature a wide range of popular Lieder by Hugo Wolf and Peter Cornelius, as well as neglected gems by Joseph Haas and Richard Trunk. Join Mary Bevan (soprano), Thomas Elwin (tenor), Johnny Herford (baritone) and Peter Wilkinson (piano) for this telling of the Christmas story through German art song.

This one-hour programme starts at 6pm and all tickets cost £10, with a reduction to £8 if you have or are buying a ticket to the 8pm concert.

A bar will be open after the concert.

PROGRAMME:

Engelbert Humperdinck: Weihnachten
Peter Cornelius: Christbaum
Richard Trunk: Christbaum
Richard Trunk: Advent
Hugo Wolf: Nun wandre, Maria
Max Reger: Uns ist geboren ein Kindelein
Alban Berg: Winter
Richard Trunk: Maria
Engelbert Humperdinck: Das Licht der Welt
Joseph Haas: Die beweglichste Musika
Richard Trunk: Idyll
Joseph Haas: Weihnachtslegende
Max Reger: Mariä Wiegenlied
Hugo Wolf: Die ihr schwebet um diese Palmen
Hugo Wolf: Schlafendes Jesuskind
Max Reger: aria am Rosenstrauch
Hugo Wolf: Ach, des Knaben Augen
Max Reger: Christkindleins Wiegenlied
Peter Cornelius: Die Hirten
Christian Schubart: Weihnachtslied der Hirten
Peter Cornelius: Die Könige
Richard Trunk: Die heiligen drei Könige
Peter Cornelius: Simeon
 

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