This week, I'm talking about two more recitals at the Schubertiade Vilabertran. To begin with, the second one given by Juliane Banse and Wolfram Rieger, and the baritone Adrian Eröd who will also join them; it will take place on August 20th. The first part will focus on duets by Schumann and Mendelssohn and will also include some songs for one voice from both composers. In the second part, we will be listening to a selection of the Italianisches Liederbuch by Hugo Wolf, a work usually sung by a man and a woman (a baritone and a soprano, in our case). I realized I haven’t talked about those songs yet, so I've just jot down it in my notebook; we'll spend some time with them at our new season.

 

As I told you last week, I'll devote the four remaining weeks of August to the Schubertiade Vilabertran, in a similar way to what I did last year: in those four posts, briefly I will go over the six song recitals we are going to listen in Vilabertran, and I'll recover the pieces included in those concerts that we previously listenend on Liederabend.

Today, I'm talking about the first recital, the SV16 opening concert, that will take place on August 18, within eight days. We'll listen to two regular artists at the festival, mezzo-soprano Juliane Banse and pianist Wolfram Rieger, who will perform songs by Brahms, Schubert and Duparc. When reviewing the program, which [...]