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2021-04-08 12:53:53
Charmes: an alternative century of song from Olena Tokar and Igor Gryshyn with music by Alma Mahler-Werfel, Clara Schumann, Pauline Viardot-Garcia and Vitezslava Kapralova
[…] Tokar and Gryshyn begin with Five Songs, which Mahler-Werfer wrote between 1899 and 1910, and published in 1911 (under the name Alma Maria Schindler-Mahler) not long before Mahler's death. The songs set texts by Richard Dehmel (1862-1920), Otto Erich Hartleben (1864-1905), Julius Bierbaum (1865-1910), Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) and Heinrich Heine (1797-1856), all but the last one being contemporary to the composer and very much associated with current trends in Vienna (Hartleben translated Albert Giraud's Pierrot Lunaire into German, which formed the basis for Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire which premiered in 1912). Listening to these songs you remember that Mahler-Werfel studied with Alexander Zemlinsky before she met Mahler, and the songs very much inhabit the world of early Richard Strauss and early Schoenberg rather than Gustav Mahler, complex, lyrical and seductive yet often suffused with chromaticism and tension. Clara Wieck was a child prodigy (and nurtured as such by her […]
2021-02-10 23:08:17
Come and Celebrate Valentine’s day with a free loving-stream concert featuring many great Canadian musicians on February 14 at 8 PM EST. Repertoire Raphaëlle Paquette / Trio 12 cordes – Medley: C’est magnifique (Cole Porter\ F. Lienas) et Sous le ciel de Paris (Hubert Giraud\ J. Dréjac) Marc-André Gautier – l’hymne à l’Amour – (Marguerite [...]
2019-03-16 10:34:56
Almost music theatre: Dominick Argento and Schumann song cycles about Virginia Woolf and Mary, Queen of Scots, expanded with dramatic texts from Sarah Connolly at Wigmore Hall
[…] Virginia Woolf was interspersed with readings from Woolf's diaries. The concert was dedicated to the memory of Dominick Argento who died in February this year. Sarah Connolly (Photo Christopher Pledger) Zemlinsky's Sechs Gesänge Op. 13 set poems by the Belgian symbolist poet and playwright Maurice Maeterlinck in German translations by Friedrich von Oppein-Bronikowski. As such they provide a fascinating link between Pierrot Lunaire, settings of German translations of Belgian symbolist poet Albert Giraud by Zemlinsky's pupil Arnold Schoenberg, and Debussy's Pelleas et Melisande setting Maeterlinck. Maeterlinck's poems as selected by Zemlinsky are all rather oblique, yet each features women being tested and badly treated, with endings often being left up in the air. One big feature of the songs in the original version for voice and piano is that few have piano introductions, they plunge straight in (Zemlinsky would add introductions when he orchestrated the pieces).The music […]
2018-07-07 05:21:00
Classical Music News of the Week, July 7, 2018
[…] on Sunday, September 16, 2018 at 5:00 p.m. with a performance at FringeArts in Philadelphia as part of the Philadelphia Fringe Festival, featuring a world premiere from Ted Hearne, co-commissioned by Park Avenue Armory and The Crossing, together with Toivo Tulev's setting of Walt Whitman's "A child said, what is the grass?," a rare performance of David Lang's depart for 3 cellos and women, plus works by Louis Andriessen, Benjamin C.S. Boyle, Sebastian Currier, Suzanne Giraud, Gabriel Jackson, David Shapiro, and Kile Smith. The program, Arms and the Man, explores themes of nationalism and war, victory and loss, and joy and despair; it is also performed at New York's Park Avenue Armory on Wednesday, September 19, 2018 at 7:30 p.m. and Thursday, September 20, 2018 at 7:30 p.m. in an expanded concert experience that winds through the Armory's historic reception rooms. And so on through July 2019. For a complete […]
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