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Wednesday, Nov 17, 2010 | 8 PM
Bryn Terfel
Malcolm Martineau
Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage

Performers

  • Bryn Terfel, Bass-Baritone
  • Malcolm Martineau, Piano

Program

  • SCHUMANN "Belsatzar," Op. 57
  • SCHUMANN Liederkreis, Op. 39
    ·· In der Fremde
    ·· Intermezzo
    ·· Waldesgespräch
    ·· Die Stille
    ·· Mondnacht
    ·· Schöne Fremde
    ·· Auf einer Burg
    ·· In der Fremde
    ·· Wehmut
    ·· Zwielicht
    ·· Im Walde
    ·· Frühlingsnacht
  • SCHUMANN "Die beiden Grenadiere," Op. 49, No. 1
  • SCHUMANN "Mein Wagen rollet langsam," Op. 142, No. 4
  • FINZI Let Us Garlands Bring, Op. 18
    ·· Come Away, Death
    ·· Who Is Sylvia?
    ·· Fear No More the Heat o' the Sun
    ·· O Mistress Mine
    ·· It Was a Lover
  • IBERT Chansons de Don Quichotte
    ·· Chanson du départ
    ·· Chanson à Dulcinée
    ·· Chanson du duc
    ·· Chanson de la mort
  • RASBACH "Trees"
  • TRAD. "Ar Hyd y Nos" (arr. Chris Hazell)
  • GILBERT & SULLIVAN "When the Night Wind Howls" from Ruddigore
  • KELLEY "Home on the Range" (arr. David Gurion)
  • MALOTTE "The Lord's Prayer"

  • Encores:
  • WEILL "Moritat von Mackie Messer" from Die Dreigroschenoper
  • BOITO "Son lo spirito che nega" from Mefistofele

  • Program is approximately 1 hour, 55 minutes, including one intermission
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Whether opening the Met Opera season in the new Ring cycle, leading London’s Proms audiences in “Rule, Britannia”—or singing at Carnegie Hall—Terfel is a charismatic presence. On this program, he and his longtime collaborator perform songs that Schumann wrote in a yearlong burst of creativity in 1840, his so-called Liederjahr, along with music by Finzi and Ibert. This will be something special.

Bryn Terfel will be signing CDs after this performance.
Schubert "An die Musik," D. 547
Bryn Terfel, Bass / Malcolm Martineau, Piano
Deutsche Grammophon
Tuesday, Jan 11, 2011 | 8 PM
Renée Fleming
Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage

Performers

  • Hartmut Höll, Piano
  • Renée Fleming, Soprano

Program

  • SCHOENBERG "Jane Grey," Op. 12, No. 1
  • ZEMLINSKY Fünf Lieder
    ·· Vorspiel
    ·· Ansturm
    ·· Letzte Bitte
    ·· Stromüber
    ·· Auf See
  • KORNGOLD "Sterbelied," Op. 14, No. 1
  • KORNGOLD "Das Heldengrab am Pruth," Op. 9, No. 5
  • KORNGOLD "Was du mir bist," Op. 22, No. 1
  • BRAD MEHLDAU Songs from The Book of Hours: Love Poems to God
    ·· I love you, gentlest of Ways
    ·· No one lives his life
    ·· His caring is a nightmare to us
    ·· Extinguish my eyes, I'll go on seeing you
  • R. STRAUSS "Winterweihe," Op. 48, No. 4
  • R. STRAUSS "Winterliebe," Op. 48, No. 5
  • R. STRAUSS "Traum durch die Dämmerung," Op. 29, No. 1
  • R. STRAUSS "Gesang der Apollopriesterin," Op. 33, No. 2

  • Encores:
  • R. STRAUSS "Zueignung," Op. 10, No. 1
  • KORNGOLD "Glück, das mir verblieb" from Die tote Stadt, Op. 12
  • BERNSTEIN "I Feel Pretty" from West Side Story
  • R. STRAUSS "Morgen," Op. 27, No. 4

  • Program is approximately 1 hour, 30 minutes, including one intermission
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Fleming gives a glimpse into the musical culture of fin-de-siècle Vienna with its enfant terrible Schoenberg, its wunderkind Korngold, and Zemlinsky—the man who taught them both. She concludes with songs by a composer whose notoriety outshone them all, preceded by Mehldau’s Rilke settings, a Carnegie Hall commission written specifically for Fleming.

Renée Fleming will be signing CDs after this performance.
Sunday, Mar 6, 2011 | 2 PM
Joyce DiDonato
David Zobel
Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage

Performers

  • David Zobel, Piano
  • Joyce DiDonato, Mezzo-Soprano

Program

  • HAYDN "Berenice, che fai," Hob. XXIVa:10
  • ROSSINI "L'invito"
  • ROSSINI "La partenza"
  • ROSSINI "Le dodo des enfants"
  • ROSSINI "Chanson de Zora"
  • CHAMINADE "Viens! mon bien-aimé!"
  • CHAMINADE "Villanelle"
  • CHAMINADE "Aubade"
  • CHAMINADE "L'été"
  • ROSSINI "Assisa al piè d’un salice...Deh, calma," from Otello
  • JAKE HEGGIE The Breaking Waves (World Premiere, commissioned by Carnegie Hall)
  • BUZZI-PECCIA "Lolita" (serenata spagnola)
  • LEONCAVALLO "Serenata francese"
  • DI CHIARA "La spagnola"

  • Encores:
  • MASSENET "Je suis gris!" from Chérubin
  • ROSSINI "Tanti affetti" from La donna del Lago
  • ARLEN "Over the Rainbow" from The Wizard of Oz
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This Yankee Diva (as she calls herself) is a “gilt-edged opera star” (The New York Times). Though she made her name singing Rossini, she’s also built a reputation as an interpreter of new music. On this recital, she introduces us to new songs from Jake Heggie—DiDonato starred in the New York premiere of his opera Dead Man Walking—and works by Rossini, Haydn, and Chaminade.
Fauré “En sourdine” from Mélodies, Op. 58, No. 2
Joyce DiDonato,  Mezzo-Soprano / Julius Drake, Piano
Wigmore Hall Live
Monday, Apr 25, 2011 | 8 PM
Sylvia Schwartz
Bernarda Fink
Michael Schade
Thomas Quasthoff
Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage

Performers

  • Bernarda Fink, Mezzo-Soprano
  • Justus Zeyen, Piano
  • Malcolm Martineau, Piano
  • Michael Schade, Tenor
  • Sylvia Schwartz, Soprano
  • Thomas Quasthoff, Bass-Baritone

Program

  • SCHUMANN Spanische Liebeslieder, Op. 138
  • BRAHMS Liebeslieder-Walzer, Op. 52
  • BRAHMS "An die Heimat," Op. 64, No. 1
  • BRAHMS "Der Abend," Op. 64, No. 2
  • BRAHMS "O schöne Nacht," Op. 92, No. 1
  • BRAHMS "Abendlied," Op. 92, No. 3
  • BRAHMS Neue Liebeslieder-Walzer, Op. 65

  • Encores:
  • BRAHMS "Da unten im Tale" from Deutsche Volkslieder, No. 6
  • TRAD. "In einem kühlen Grunde"
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A recital with any one of these singers would be memorable; a program with them all together is outstanding. In Schumann’s setting of Spanish folk poetry, Schwartz, Fink, Schade, and Quasthoff all show off their skills individually before joining up in the final song. At the heart of this program are Brahms’s two brilliant sets of vocal quartets with their two-piano accompaniment.
Brahms Liebeslieder, Walzer, Op. 52, No. 11 ("Nein, Es Ist Nicht Auszukommen")
Martial Singher, Bass / Marlena Kleinman, Mezzo-Soprano / Wayne Conner, Tenor / Benita Valente, Soprano / Rudolf Serkin, Piano / Leon Fleisher, Piano
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