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‘Sunless’

Forum der Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, Germany
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Wednesday 25 September 2019
8 PM
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Important Info
Type: Classical Concert
City: Bonn, Germany
Starts at: 20:00
Duration:

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Festival

Beethovenfest Bonn 2019

‘Moonlight’: thus the motto of the 2019 Beethovenfest. What looks at first like a wry allusion to the ‘Moonlight Sonata’ turns out to be fruitful terrain for this year’s programme.

Programme
Benjamin Britten: Selection from the `Purcell Realizations`
Johannes Brahms: Selected lieder, including `Sehnsucht` (op. 14/8)
Johannes Brahms: `Vor dem Fenster` (WoO 33/35)
Modest Mussorgsky: Songs and Dances of Death
Johannes Brahms: Four Lieder on Poems by Klaus Groth for voice and piano, op. 59 ‘Regenlied’ Cycle) (1873) early version
Modest Mussorgsky: `Sunless` for voice and piano (1874)
Johannes Brahms: Selected lieder, including `Anklänge` (op. 7/3)
Johannes Brahms: Über die Heide - Over the Heath , Op.86 no.4
Overview

Christian Gerhaher is one of the most sought-after singers in the world, and every new CD release is celebrated as a sensation. Yet this baritone views himself primarily as a lied singer. Here his powers of interpretation are beyond compare, and the nuances he coaxes from even the most familiar song cycles beggar belief. For decades his equally brilliant accompanist and comrade-in-arms has been Gerold Huber. Now these two artists have drawn up a new programme combining several Purcell songs in Benjamin Britten’s ingenious arrangements with German and Russian songs from the 19th century. Flanking a selection of Brahms lieder are two song cycles by Modest Mussorgsky, both composed in 1874-75 at the same time as his famous ‘Pictures at an Exhibition’. The same accessibility and richness of colour predominate in ‘Songs and Dances of Death’ and ‘Sunless’. To translate ‘human speech’ into music was Mussorgsky’s primary aim, even above the ‘generation of feelings’.

Venue Info

Forum der Bundeskunsthalle - Bonn
Location   Friedrich-Ebert-Allee 4

Bundeskunsthalle is a unique venue with a rich and diverse exhibition programme. 

The Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany – in short, the Bundeskunsthalle – is a unique venue devoted to art, culture and science. Central to the programming are exhibitions of art of all periods, including contemporary art, as well as shows devoted to cultural history, archaeology, science and other areas of knowledge. Further to these exhibitions, the Bundeskunsthalle develops and presents an independent performing arts programme with guest performances and in-house productions by different artists and ensembles from the world of theatre, performance, dance and music.

The Bundeskunsthalle sets out to look not only at Western culture, but to take a global view. Equally important is the institution’s commitment to wider audience participation in culture and to comprehensive social and cross-cultural inclusion and integration. This commitment is reflected not only in the exhibitions themselves but also in the accompanying programme of events, which include discussions, lectures, talks, guided tours and workshops.

Through its many cooperative projects, the Bundeskunsthalle has established an international network of contacts with cultural and scientific institutions and gained access to wider audiences whose input and responses are valued as part of an ongoing dialogue. The exhibitions and events hosted by the Bundeskunsthalle are integral to the institution’s remit to act both nationally and internationally as a showcase for the open and inclusive concept of culture that is central to the identity of the Federal Republic of Germany.

Important Info
Type: Classical Concert
City: Bonn, Germany
Starts at: 20:00
Duration:
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