Last week I posted an interview with Jordi Roch, Artistic Director of the Schubertíada a Vilabertran; this week I'm announcing the programme of the next season, the Schubertíada 2014.
Please note that some dates changed since last August!
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Song of the week: An Silvia (F. Schubert) - F. Wunderlich, H. Giesen
When someone dies at 35 it's always a tragedy for his family and his friends. If the person has a public presence and is as talented as Wunderlich was, we all wonder (probably with a bit of egoism) what he could have done if he would have had more time. I wonder if Wunderlich had reached perfection, as Giesen suggests. Where would his career have headed? It's difficult to say; his operatic career was impressive, he played many, many roles during the ten years it lasted, but he still had a long way to go in Lied.
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Song of the week: Beim Schlafengehen (R. Strauss) - K. Jarnot, H. Deutsch
Some weeks ago, a friend of mine asked me to listen to a recording he had just bought, with lieder by Strauss sung by Konrad Jarnot. Jarnot had been a delightful discovery for him but his enthusiasm about the recording was due to... the Vier letzte Lieder! A baritone singing the four last songs by Strauss! I must admit, I was as surprised as my friend.
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Song of the week: Der Hidalgo (F. Schumann) - S. Keenlyside, G. Johnson
We are beginning the 2013-2014 season. If you have just returned from holiday, welcome back! What about opening September with one of our ten happiest Art Songs?
Emanuel Geibel is a poet known by Art Song lovers as one of the editors, together with Paul Heyse, of the Spanisches Liederbuch (Book of Spanish Songs), a compilation of Spanish poetry published on 1852 that inspired many songs to several composers, the most important of which was Hugo Wolf. Also, Robert Schumann selected ten poems to his Spanisches Liederspiel (Spanish Songs Spiel) and we already listened to Geistliches Wiegenlied by Brahms on this blog some months ago, which is a Geibel's translation of a poem by Lope de Vega.
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Cançó de la setmana: Widmung (R. Schumann) - H. Prey, L. Hokanson
This week I've written just a light post about clichés and obvious things. But please don't miss the song, one of my favourite performings of Schumann's Widmung: Herman Prey and Leonard Hokanson.
One more thing: next week I'm starting to post also in English. Yes, the whole post. I hope you will read and comment...
Series
The same poem, one more song
The Buch der Lieder and ten composers
The 10 saddest songs
The 10 happiest songs
Ten buggy songs
Wilhelm Meister's Songs
Lied goes pop
Abecedari Liederabend
The ESMUC Master's Degree in Lied visits us
