Thursday 23 September 2010 7.30pm
Angelika Kirchschlager and Simon Lepper
Mendelssohn and the 19th Century Salon
“the vocally opulent Angelika Kirchschlager is simply stunning”
“One of the world’s finest lyric mezzo-sopranos” Neil Fisher, The Times
Austrian mezzo-soprano Angelika Kirchschlager explores the beauty of the early Romantic period in a programme featuring songs by Felix and Fanny Mendelssohn and Carl Loewe. As one of the most sought after and highly regarded artists of her generation, Kirchschlager is recognised as a leading interpreter of Strauss and Mozart. Her forthcoming opera engagements include Handel at The Met, New York and Octavian and Clairon at the Vienna State Opera.
Kirchschlager is accompanied by Simon Lepper, decribed by Opera magazine as “one of the most gifted and enterprising accompanists of his generation”. Simon plays with some of the world’s leading recitalists, including Mark Padmore last season in the Howard Assembly Room.
Full Programme:
FELIX MENDELSSOHN Im Frühling (Op.9, no.4)
Frühlingsglaube (Op.9, no.8)
Frühlingslied,” Op. 19a, no. 1
Das erste Veilchen,” Op. 19a
Frühlingslied,” Op. 47, no. 3
Frühlingslied,” Op. 34, no. 3
FELIX MENDELSSOHN
SONGS FROM THE HEINE CYCLE ‘SÄNGERFAHRT’, op.33 by Franz Lachner.
Die badende Elfe
Im Mai (“Im wunderschönen Monat Mai”)
Eine Liebe (“Die Rose, die Lilie”)
Was will die einsame Trane?
FELIX MENDELSSOHN Pagenlied
Der Waldschloss
Weinachtslied
Die Liebende Schreibt
Reiselied(Uhland) 1831
Interval
FANNY MENDELSSOHN Suleika
Die Mainacht, Op. 9, no. 6
Ich wandelte unter den Bäumen
Warum sind den die Rosen so blass?, Op. 1, no. 3
Schwanenlied, Op. 1, no. 1
Wanderlied, Op. 1, no. 2
CARL LOEWE From Frauenliebe und leben, Op. 60
Seit ich ihn gesehen
Ich kann's nicht fassen
Helft mir,ihr Schwestern
An meinem Herzen
Traum der eignen Tage
From Vier Fabellieder Op 64
Der Kuckuck
Der verliebte Maikäfer
Tickets £18.00
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