After the success of their riveting performance of Schubert’s Winterreise on our 2014-15 Season, Ian Bostridge and Wenwen Du return to our stage to perform an artfully curated program of songs exploring the music and poetry of the Great War. The program ranges from songs by soldier composers George Butterworth and Ivor Gurney to Britten’s setting of poems about children in wartime.
“Bostridge sings as if from inside the music, as if he has found a way to produce pure, disembodied emotion.” — Los Angeles Times
SONGS OF WORLD WAR I
The Music and Poetry of the Great War
MAHLER: Three songs from Des Knaben Wunderhorn
STEPHAN: Ich will dir singen ein Hohelied
BUTTERWORTH: A Shropshire Lad
WEILL: Four Walt Whitman Songs
BRITTEN: Four songs from Who Are These Children?, Op. 84
Concert Sponsor:
Additional Support:
Alice Wenhui Chee
There is a pre-concert talk at 2.15pm
Mark Padmore has established a flourishing career in opera, concert and recital. His performances in Bach’s Passions have garnered particular notice throughout the world. Paul Lewis is one of the VRS’ brightest discoveries and most regular visitors. Mark and Paul have performed and recorded Schubert’s Schwanengesang and Die Schöne Müllerin, as well as the epic Die Winterreise, which won Gramophone Magazine’s Vocal Solo Award in 2010.
“Apart from the sheer intelligence behind the interpretation, Padmore’s voice is lustrous; gleaming but flexible, alive to nuance and color, never overdone.” — International Record Review
SCHUBERT, SCHUMANN, BRAHMS & WOLF
Concert Sponsor: Elaine Adair
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