Tag: Tara Erraught

  • PROGRAM NOTES: TARA ERRAUGHT & JAMES BAILLIEU

    PROGRAM NOTES: TARA ERRAUGHT & JAMES BAILLIEU

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    Franz Liszt Victor Hugo Poems It may seem strange to think of Liszt as a song composer, so firmly is his name associated with 19th-century virtuoso pianism. But the extraordinary breadth of his musical sympathies is already clearly evident in the wide range of styles and moods in his piano compositions alone, from the bombast…

  • PROGRAM NOTES: TARA ERRAUGHT

    PROGRAM NOTES: TARA ERRAUGHT

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      Johannes Brahms: Zigeunerlieder (Gypsy Songs), Op. 103 More than half of Brahms’ total output was vocal, including over two hundred art songs and an additional hundred folksong arrangements. Most of them are serious, introspective, resigned or elegiac in mood. Ardent, impulsive effusions are rare, and the musical pictorialism so dear to Schubert is likewise…