Work: Seven Early Songs (Sieben frühe Lieder)| Date | Event | Composers, Works, Performers |
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| Monday 10-Jun-13 07:30pm |
 Snape Maltings Concert HallSandrine Piau Aldeburgh Festival |
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| Snape Maltings Concert Hall, Snape IP17 1SP, United Kingdom Monday 10-Jun-13 07:30pm Sandrine Piau One of today’s most sought-after sopranos makes her Aldeburgh recital debut in an eye-catching programme. A great communicator who works on the
opera and concert hall stage, her reputation has been founded on superb characterful performances of baroque and classical music. Here however she
allies her sharp-edged clarity and easy unaffected warmth to nocturnal songs from the German Romantic tradition (the young Mendelssohn and Richard
Strauss). These are blended with an intoxicating selection of music from the turbulent decades that straddle the turn of the twentieth century. There is a thrilling potency to every footstep, every new departure taken by the young Berg, Schoenberg and Debussy. By contrast the cool detachment of Bitten’s idiosyncratic folk song arrangements seem to heighten the emotional directness of deeply-rooted opular songs from England, Scotland and the USA. | ||
| Friday 2-Aug-13 06:00pm |
Vaasa City Hall: Grand Hall Wagner, Berg, Schönberg Korsholm Music Festival |
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| Vaasa City Hall: Grand Hall, Senaatinkatu 1, Vaasa, Finland Friday 2-Aug-13 06:00pm Wagner, Berg, Schönberg Tickets €20 and 17. | ||
| Monday 19-Aug-13 11:00am |
Queen's Hall, Edinburgh Dorothea Röschmann and Malcolm Martineau Edinburgh International Festival |
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| Queen's Hall, Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9JG, United Kingdom Monday 19-Aug-13 11:00am Dorothea Röschmann and Malcolm Martineau Image credit: Jim Rakete | ||
| Friday 20-Dec-13 07:30pm |
Barbican Centre: Hall, London Wagner's Prelude to Tristan and Isolde |
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| Barbican Centre: Hall, London, Silk Street, London EC2Y 8DS, United Kingdom Friday 20-Dec-13 07:30pm Wagner's Prelude to Tristan and Isolde Celebrated American soprano Christine Brewer is a very special guest for this sumptuous evening of Wagner, Strauss and composers of the Second Viennese school, conducted by the Edward Gardner of English National Opera. Tristan and Isolde and the Wesendonck- Lieder belong to the same turbulent period of Wagner’s life, when he was amorously involved with Mathilde Wesendonck. His settings of her poetry share the same heady chromaticism and ecstatic heights as Tristan, and find an echo in Strauss’s lavish tone poem Death and Transfiguration. Webern’s masterly Passacaglia anticipates the exquisitely-heard, Expressionist world of Berg’s Seven Early Songs. Tickets £10 - 32. | ||
