Hugo Wolf; early songs & settings of Michelangelo

Lydia Teuscher

Soprano

German soprano Lydia Teuscher has sung with the Mannheim Opera and Stadttheater Heidelberg.  Her recent engagements include concerts with the Gürzenich Orchester, Cologne and Markus Stenz, with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and Sir Roger Norrington and with Double Bande and Rene Jacobs. In September 2006 she has joined the Semperoper/Sächsische Staatsoper in Dresden as a resident artist where her roles include Pamina, Susanna, Valencienne and Gretel.  

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Robert Holl

Baritone / Bass

One of the great Lieder singers of our time Robert Holl has increasingly been in demand on the world’s great opera stages. He now appears regulary in opera houses such as Vienna State Opera, Berlin State Opera Unter den Linden and Zurich Opera. Since 1996 he has appeared regularly at the Bayreuth Festival.

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Sholto Kynoch

Piano

Sholto Kynoch is in demand as a chamber musician and song accompanist, regularly performing with many outstanding instrumentalists and singers.

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Robert Holl – bass-baritone
Lydia Teuscher - soprano
Sholto Kynoch – piano

(NB: Ticket holders to this concert are given a £5 discount to the 5.45pm concert given by the National Opera Studio in the Jacqueline du Pré Music Building)

The eighth instalment in our project to perform and record the complete songs of Hugo Wolf. This programme includes the first six songs Wolf published (Sechs Lieder für eine Frauenstimme), of which he was justifiably proud, as well as the last songs he wrote, his stirring settings of Michelangelo.

We return to the lovely setting of St John’s Iffley Road and look forward to raising a glass with you in the interval!

PROGRAMME:

Sechs Lieder für eine Frauenstimme

Morgentau (Reinhold)
Das Vöglein (Hebbel)
Die Spinnerin (Rückert)
Wiegenlied im Sommer (Reinick)
Wiegenlied im Winter (Reinick)
Mausfallen-Sprüchlein (Mörike)

Sechs Gedichte von Scheffel, Mörike, Goethe und Kerner

Wächterlied auf der Wartburg (von Scheffel)
Der König bei der Krönung (Mörike)
Biterolf (von Scheffel)
Beherzigung I (Goethe)
Wanderers Nachtlied (Goethe)
Zur Ruh, zur Ruh! (Kerner)

Gretchen vor dem Andachtsbild der Mater Dolorosa (Goethe)
Suschens Vogel (Mörike)
Die Tochter der Heide (Mörike)
Sehnsucht (Goethe)
Der Fischer (Goethe)
Auf dem See (Goethe)
Erster Verlust (Goethe)

Drei Gedichte von Michelangelo

Wohl denk ich oft
Alles endet, was entstehet
Fühlt meine Seele