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2024-01-29 14:59:14
Schubery, Mendelssohn, 2024
[…] You can decide for yourself which one you like better. As for Mendelssohn, his most famous “songs” were not vocal butfor piano solo:Songs without Words. Still, he also composed “real” songs – not as many as Schubert, of course, who wrote about 600 – and some of them are wonderful. Here, for example, is Gruss (Greeting), a song from his op. 19a on a poem by Henrich Heine. It’s performed by the Irish tenor Robin Tritschler, accompanied by Malcolm Martineau. When he wrote his songs op. 19a, Mendelssohn wasn’t much older than Schubert of An die Musik: he started the cycle at the age of 21. Three Italian composers were also born this week: Alessandro Marcello, on February 1st of 1673, Luigi Dallapiccola, on February 3rd of 1904, and Luigi Nono, on January 29th of 1924. We’ve never written about Dallapiccola even though he was a very interesting composer; we’ll […]
2024-01-29 03:52:46
Felix Mendelssohn - GrussRobin Tritschler (Tenor)Malcolm Martineau (Piano)
2023-10-26 06:37:00
Stories in music in Oxford: visual inspirations from the Mendelssohn siblings, William Blake in song & image, vivid story-telling from Wolf & Mörike
Mendelssohn, Looking at Blake, Hugo Wolf: Mörike Lieder; Harriet Burns, Alessandro Fisher, Eugene Asti, Robin Tritschler, Christopher Glynn, Thomas Oliemans, Hans Eijsackers; Oxford Lieder FestivalMusic, visual arts and story-telling in a day at the Oxford International Song Festival, ranging widely over the Mendelssohn siblings' relationship, 20th century settings of Blake, and Hugo Wolf in devilishly good formTuesday 24 October 2023 was a day of stories at the Oxford International Song Festival. Things began with soprano Harriet Burns, tenor Alessandro Fisher and pianist Eugene Asti in songs by both Fanny and Felix Mendelssohn, then at rush hour, tenor Robin Tritschler and pianist Christopher Glynn combined 20th-century settings of William Blake with the artist's own images, and in the evening we had the vivid story-telling of baritone Thomas Oliemans and pianist Hans Eijsackers in a selection of Wolf's Mörike-Lieder.The day had begun with a Show and Tell at The Weston Library, looking at Mendelssohn-related manuscripts […]
2022-02-18 07:52:20
The Leeds Lieder Festival 2022 runs from Thursday 28 April to Sunday 1 May 2022; four days of song curated by artistic director Joseph Middleton under the title Song Illuminated, exploring how song illuminates our lives. With all of the concerts taking place at the Howard Assembly Room. Dorothea Röschmann, soprano, opens the festival with Joseph Middleton in Mahler's Des Knaben Wunderhorn and music by Wolf and Wagner. Ian Bostridge, tenor, and Dame Imogen Cooper will be performing Schubert's later masterpiece, Schwanengesang, whilst Robin Tritschler, tenor, is joined by pianist Christopher Glynn for a recital that has moonlight illuminating all the songs. Louise Alder, soprano, joins Middleton to bring the festival to a close with a recital of songs ranging from Fauré to Rodgers and Hammerstein. But there is much more to the festival than this. There are lunchtime recitals in partnership with Samling Institute, BBC New Generation Artists and Kathleen Ferrier Awards, with […]
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