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The lied opens this evening with Schubert, who represented the zenith of the genre, and Wolf, who heralded its sublime twilight: the occasion to hear several famous pieces by Schubert– including Der Tod und das Mädchen, in which Death takes on a sensual and reassuring air to seduce a young girl. The programme also proposes us a rarity from Wolf: Drei Gedichte von Michelangelo. These powerfully Dionysian poems – writing often freed Michelangelo from his excesses of melancholy – the composer draws inspiration for a triptych for bass reflecting on glory and vanity.
Alongside the vast crop of lieder by Schubert and Wolf, Franz-Josef Selig has gleaned a number of shadowy pieces to introduce us to Mussorgsky’s Songs and Dances of Death: here, the composer of Khovanshchina shows us his most sombre, pessimistic side. Confronted with this intimate tableau of death, what consolation is left for us except the moving beauty of a song which still drives our present? Selig’s voice plunges into the unfathomable depths of this music from a “sunless” land.
| Franz Schubert | Auf der Donau, D. 553 (Johann Baptist Mayrhofer) Der Tod und das Mädchen, D. 531 (Matthias Claudius) An den Tod, D. 518 (Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart) Totengräbers Heimweh, D. 842 (Jakob Nikolaus) Der Wanderer, D. 489 (Georg Philipp Schmidt von Lübeck) Gruppe aus dem Tartarus, D. 396 (Friedrich von Schiller) Prometheus, D. 674 (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) Grenzen der Menschheit, D. 716 (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) |
| Hugo Wolf | Trois Lieder de Michelangelo (Walter Heinrich Robert-Tornow d’après Michelangelo Buonarroti) 1. Wohl denk ich oft 2. Alles endet was entstehet 3. Fühlt meine Seele Trois Lieder sur des poèmes de Goethe Harfenspieler I-III |
| Modeste Moussorgski | Chants et danses de la mort (Arseny Golenishchev-Kutuzov) Berceuse Sérénade Trepak Le chef d’armée |
Franz Josef Selig Basse
Gerold Huber Piano
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