Liebeslieder Walzer
25 October 2017, 19:30
Concert
This event will be broadcast from Holywell Music Room

A celebration of Viennese culture would not be complete without some element of dancing! Brahms enjoyed great success during his own lifetime, and his acclaimed two sets of Liebeslieder Walzer ('Love-song Waltzes') have been hugely popular ever since the first of them were heard in 1870. Also included in the programme are the ‘gypsy songs’ of both Brahms and his friend and mutual admirer, Antonín Dvořák. A team of four exceptional singers join Deirdre Brenner and Sholto Kynoch for a performance of these effervescent songs.
Programme
Johannes Brahms (1833 - 1897)
Neue Liebeslieder (Op. 65)
- 1. Verzicht
- 2. Finstere Schatten der Nacht
- 3. An jeder Hand die Finger
- 4. Ihr schwarzen Augen
- 5. Wahre, wahre deinen Sohn
- 6. Rosen steckt mir an die Mutter
- 7. Vom Gebirge Well' auf Well'
- 8. Weiche Gräser im Revier
- 9. Nagen am Herzen fühl
- 10. Ich kose süss, mit der und der
- 11. Alles, alles in den Wind
- 12. Schwarzer Wald, dein Schatten
- 13. Nein, Geliebter, setze dich
- 14. Flammenauge, dunkles Haar
- 15. Zum Schluss: Nun, ihr Musen, genug!
Johannes Brahms (1833 - 1897)
Zigeunerlieder (ensemble version) (Op. 103)
- 1. He, Zigeuner, greife in die Saiten ein!
- 2. Hochgetürmte Rimaflut, wie bist du so trüb
- 3. Wisst ihr, wann mein Kindchen
- 4. Lieber Gott, du weisst, wie oft bereut ich hab
- 5. Brauner Bursche führt zum Tanze
- 6. Röslein dreie in der Reihe blühn so rot
- 7. Kommt dir manchmal in den Sinn
- 8. Horch, der Wind klagt in den Zweigen traurig sacht
- 9. Weit und breit schaut niemand mich an
- 10. Mond verhüllt sein Angesicht
- 11. Rote Abendwolken ziehn
- ~~~ Interval ~~~
Antonín Dvořák (1841 - 1904)
Zigeunermelodien (Op. 55)
Johannes Brahms (1833 - 1897)
Liebeslieder-Walzer (Op. 52)
- 1. Rede, Mädchen, allzu liebes
- 2. Am Gesteine rauscht die Flut
- 3. O die Frauen, o die Frauen
- 4. Wie des Abends schöne Röte
- 5. Die grüne Hopfenranke
- 6. Ein kleiner, hübscher Vogel
- 7. Wohl schön bewandt war es
- 8. Wenn so lind dein Auge mir
- 9. Am Donaustrande
- 10. O wie sanft die Quelle
- 11. Nein, es ist nicht auszukommen
- 12. Schlosser auf, und mache Schlösser
- 13. Vögelein durchrauscht die Luft
- 14. Sieh, wie ist die Welle klar
- 15. Nachtigall, sie singt so schön
- 16. Ein dunkeler Schacht ist Liebe
- 17. Nicht wandle, mein Licht
- 18. Es bedet das Gesträuche

Elena Copons
Elena Copons
Soprano
Elena Copons began her vocal studies in Barcelona with Dolors Aldea and continued at the Konservatorium Wien with Helga Wagner and Sylvia Greenberg. She completed further studies in "Lied and Oratorio" with Birgit Steinberger and Carolyn Hague. In 2006 Elena won the "Best Singer" prize at the "Curs Internacional de Música Isaac Albéniz" in Spain. In 2007 she was awarded 2nd place at the "Internationaler Lied Wettbewerb Hugo Wolf" in Stuttgart. Elena has performed at the Gran Teatre ... Read Full Biography
Christina Sidak
Christina Sidak
Mezzo Soprano
Christina Sidak was born Vienna, where she completed her studies in Singing at the University for Music and Performing Arts with distinction. Her teachers included Regina Köbler, KS Gabriele Fontana, Reto Nickler and Christoph U. Meier. Masterclasses with Brigitte Fassbaender, Christa Ludwig, Marjana Lipovsek and Helmut Deutsch further enriched her development as a singer. Christina Sidak was an award winner in the Heinrich Strecker Singing Competition and in 2013 she won the “Würdigungspreis”, an award of special ac... Read Full Biography
Jan Petryka
Jan Petryka
Tenor
Born in Warsaw into a family of musicians, Jan Petryka first graduated as a cellist at Kunstuniversität Graz before completing his studies in ‘Lied und Oratorium‘ (with Marjana Lipovsek and Rotraud Hansmann) at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna. Jan has since worked with renowned ensembles and conductors such as Arnold Schoenberg Chor (Erwin Ortner), Les Musiciens du Louvre (Marc Minkowski), Radiosymphonieorchester Wien, Bach Consort Wien, Wiener Akademie, L’Orfeo Barockorchester, La Chapelle Rhe... Read Full Biography
Martin Hässler
Martin Hässler
Baritone
German bass-baritone Martin Hässler is an alumnus of the Leipzig Academy of Music and Guildhall School of Music and Drama’s prestigious opera programme, where he studied with Rudolf Piernay and Janice Chapman, and was a two year recipient of the Guildhall Artist Fellowship. He won second prize at Thomas Quasthoff’s Das Lied – International Song Competition, first prize at Bundeswettbewerb Gesang Berlin (junior) and Best Singer’s Award at the Gerald Moore Competition London. In 2016 he made his debut at Garsing... Read Full Biography
Deirdre Brenner
Deirdre Brenner
Pianist
Pianist Deirdre Brenner has performed throughout the USA, Europe and Asia. A musician with a passion for chamber music and art song, she has appeared in venues including the Wiener Musikverein, Wiener Kozerthaus, The Kennedy Center (Washington, DC), Teatro Real (Madrid), the National Concert Hall (Dublin), Stadthalle (Bayreuth), Philharmonie Essen, St. Martin-in-the-Fields (London) and the Hollywell Music Room (Oxford). Deirdre has performed at festivals including the Seoul Spring Festival of Chamber Music, Oxford Lieder Festival, Aix-en-... Read Full Biography
Sholto Kynoch
Sholto Kynoch
Pianist
Sholto Kynoch is a sought-after pianist who specialises in song and chamber music. He is the founder and Artistic Director of the Oxford Lieder Festival, which won a prestigious Royal Philharmonic Society Award in 2015, cited for its ‘breadth, depth and audacity’ of programming. Recent recitals have taken him to Wigmore Hall, Heidelberger Frühling in Germany, the Zeist International Lied Festival in Holland, the LIFE Victoria festival and Palau de la Música in Barcelona, the Opéra de Lille, Kings Place in Lo... Read Full BiographyFestival Passes
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The Last of the Romantics - Mahler and fin-de-siècle Vienna
Please click here to view the full Festival brochure. Vienna at the turn of the twentieth century was a vibrant melting pot for music and the arts. Whirling waltzes sat alongside gargantuan symphonies. The height of romanticism had been reached but was nearly exhausted and on the brink of a whole new musical language. Tradition - with Brahms a holder of the torch - ...