Vocal Univers. Liederabend

Artists

Anna Lucia Richter, mezzo-soprano

Ammiel Bushakevitz, hurdy-gurdy, piano

Program

Licht!

Oswald von Wolkenstein (1377-1445): Wer ist, die da durchleuchtet

Walther von der Vogelweide (c. 1170-1230): Unter den Linden

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750): Der lieben Sonne Licht und Pracht; O finstre Nacht

Joseph Haydn (1732-1809): Die Landlust

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791): Abendempfindung

Franz Schubert (1797-1828): Auf dem Wasser zu singen; Der Zwerg; Im Abendrot

Fanny Mendelssohn (1805-1847): Frühling; Dämmerung senkte sich

Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847): Minnelied, Op. 34; Neue Liebe

Robert Schumann (1810-1856): Die Fensterscheibe; Abendlied

Hugo Wolf (1860-1903): Wohin mit der Freud?

Alban Berg (1885-1935): Vier Gesänge, Op. 2

Aribert Reimann (1936): Nach dem Lichtverzicht, from Eingedunkelt – Neun Gedichte nach Paul Celan

Wolfgang Rihm (1952): Verwelkte Blumen, from Vier späte Gedichte von Friedrich Rückert

Hanns Eisler (1898-1962): Und endlich; Über den Selbstmord

Kurt Weill (1900-1950): Berlin im Licht

Let there be Light

Licht, that is, Light, is how the young German mezzo Anna Lucia Richter has named her debut concert at the Festival, which she will offer accompanied by the Israeli-South African pianist Ammiel Bushakevitz. That “Licht” that refers us to one of the best-known moments in the history of music (the formidable chord of C major from Haydn’s The Creation) helps Richter to represent a true history of German singing since it goes back to two of the best-known meistersinger of the late Middle Ages and reaches two authors still alive, Reimann and Rihm. In between, some of the most important names of the romantic lied (Schubert, Schumann, the Mendelssohns, Wolf…), but also its most direct classical precursors (Haydn, Mozart), the surprise of Bach (so rare in these recitals) and masters of very diverse aesthetics from the beginning of the 20th century (Berg, Eisler, Weill).

Concert with no interval.

Tribute to Victoria de los Ángeles on the Centenary of her birth.