Songs from the East: Benjamin Appl & Graham Johnson
17 October 2017, 19:30
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Already internationally known, Benjamin Appl is joined by the ‘peerless song accompanist’ (Daily Telegraph) Graham Johnson for a programme of Lieder vom Orient that includes Brahms’s Op.32 songs, settings of Platen and Daumer. The eastern-inspired poetry of Rückert, Heine, Goethe, Geibel and Byron is heard in songs by Schubert, Schumann – whose Rückert settings were surely an influence on Mahler – Cornelius, Loewe and others.
Programme
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Franz Schubert (1797 - 1828)
Die Liebe hat gelogen (D751) - Du liebst mich nicht (D756)
Johannes Brahms (1833 - 1897)
9 Lieder und Gesänge (Op.32)
- 1. Wie rafft' ich mich auf in der Nacht
- 2. Nicht mehr zu dir zu gehen
- 3. Ich schleich umher
- 4. Der Strom, der neben mir verrauschte
- 5. Wehe, so willst Du mich wieder
- 6. Du sprichst, dass ich mich täuschte
- 7. Bitteres zu sagen denkst du
- 8. So stehn wir, ich und meine Weide
- 9. Wie bist du, meine Königin
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Franz Schubert (1797 - 1828)
Lachen und Weinen (D777) - Dass sie hier gewesen (D775)
- Du bist die Ruh (D776)
- ~~~ Interval ~~~
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Robert Schumann (1810 - 1856)
Aus den „Östlichen Rosen“ (Op.25 no.25) from Myrthen - Freisinn (Op.25 no.2) from Myrthen
- Die Lotosblume (Op.25 no.7) from Myrthen
- Belsatzar (Op.57)
- Aus den „Hebräischen Gesängen“ (Op.25 no.15) from Myrthen
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Carl Loewe (1796 - 1869)
Alles ist eitel, spricht der Prediger (Op.4 no.4) -
Hugo Wolf (1860 - 1903)
Sonne der Schlummerlosen from Vier Gedichte nach Heine, Shakespeare und Lord Byron - Nun wandre, Maria (no.3) from Spanisches Liederbuch: Geistliche Lieder
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Peter Cornelius (1824 - 1874)
Die Könige (Op.8 no.3) -
Richard Strauss (1864 - 1949)
Die heiligen drei Könige (Op.56 no.6) -
Hugo Wolf (1860 - 1903)
Epiphanias
Benjamin Appl
Benjamin Appl
Baritone
Described as ‘the current front-runner in the new generation of Lieder singers’ (Gramophone Magazine, UK), Benjamin Appl, Gramophone Award Young Artist of the Year 2016, is celebrated by audiences and critics in recital, concerts and opera. He was a member of the BBC New Generation Artist scheme from 2014-16 and was also a Wigmore Hall Emerging Artist and ECHO Rising Star for the 2015-16 season, appearing in recital at major European venues including the Barbican Centre London, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Wiener Konzerthaus, Philhar... Read Full Biography
Graham Johnson
Graham Johnson
Pianist
Described as "that peerless song accompanist” by the Daily Telegraph (November 2015) Graham Johnson is recognised as one of the world’s leading vocal accompanists. Born in Rhodesia, he came to London to study in 1967. After leaving the Royal Academy of Music, his teachers included Gerald Moore and Geoffrey Parsons. In 1972 he was the official pianist at Peter Pears' first masterclasses at the Snape Maltings, which brought him into contact with Benjamin Britten – a link which strengthened his determination to accomp... Read Full BiographyThis event is part of a series:
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