Liederabend - German Art Song Series 2008

Artists Platform in collaboration with Goethe Institute
Supported by Kuala Lumpur Performing Arts Center

Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht – Silent Night, Holy Night - A Christmas Celebration


Venue : Indicine @ KLPac
Date : 11th December 2008
Time : 830pm
Ticket : RM35
Enquiry : 03-4047 9000 KLPac/ 012-661-7654 Artists platform


Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht – A Classical Christmas Celebration
A Christmas programme with Lieder by Cornelius, Wolf, Strauss and Reger, famous Carols and Christmas oldies.

Programme

Six Christmas songs - Cornelius
1 Christbaum
2 Die Hirten
3 Die Könige
4 Simeon
5 Christus der Kinderfreund
6 Christkind

7 Nun wander, Maria – Hugo Wolf
8 Schlafendes Jesuskind – Hugo Wolf
9 Maria Wiegenlied – Max Reger
10 Ich steh an deiner Krippe hier
– Sigfrid Karg-Elert (Duet with violin)
11 Wiehnachtslied – Schumann

INTERVAL

1 Silent Night
2 Gesu Bambino (with violin)
3 Lo, How a Rose E’er Blooming (with violin)
4 The Christmas Song
5 I’ll be home for Christmas
6 White Christmas
7 Silver Bells
8 Angels We Have Heard on High
9 I Wonder as I Wander
10 The Holly and the Ivy
11 Go Tell it to the Mountain
12 Once in the Royal David’s City
13 The First Noel
14 O Holy Night


Performers
Chia Yee Yean - soprano
Evelyn Toh - soprano
Tan Wei Han - tenor
Eddy Chin - baritone
Kok-Ting Chong - piano

German Art Song Series - Die Schöne Müllerin

Artists Platform in collaboration with Goethe Institute
Supported by Kuala Lumpur Performing Arts Center

Die schöne Müllerin –
The Maid of the Mill


Venue : Indicine @ KLPac
Date : 2nd November 2008
Time : 830pm
Ticket : RM35
Enquiry : 03-4047 9000 KLPac / 012-661-7654 Artists Platform



Both of Schubert’s two great song cycles to texts by Wilhelm Müller, Die schöne Müllerin (1823) and Winterreise (1827) revolved around the theme of unrequited love. The original poetic form of Die schöne Müllerin began life as a Liederspiel ( a narrative play in verse and song), entitled “Rose, Die schöne Müllerin”.
Schubert came across these poems in 1823, a critical year of his life. He has just contacted syphilis. The songs came into being against the backdrop of a new and terrible realization of a death-sentence, some of the songs according to Schubert’s friends Josef von Spaun and Franz Schober were written in hospital. Schubert’s awareness of his own mortality seems to have heightened his artistic perception and in his setting of Müller’s rather simple lyrics are refined into a work of genius.


Programme

Die schöne Müllerin – The Maid of the Mill D795

1 Das Wandern
2 Wohin?
3 Halt!
4 Danksagung an den Bach
5 Am Feierabend
6 Der Neugierige
7 Ungeduld
8 Morgengruss
9 Des Müllers Blumen
10 Tränenregen

INTERVAL

11 Mein!
12 Pause
13 Mit dem grünen Lautenbande
14 Der Jäger
15 Eifersucht und Stolz
16 Die liebe Farbe
17 Die böse Farbe
18 Trockne Blumen
19 Der Müller und der Bach
20 Des Baches Wiegenlied

Performers
Eddy Chin - baritone
Kok-Ting Chong - piano

German Art Song Series - Liebesfrühling

Artists Platform in collaboration with Goethe Institute

Supported by Kuala Lumpur Performing Arts Center

Liebesfrühling – Spring of Love

Venue : Indicine @ KLPac
Date : 8th November 2008
Time : 830pm
Ticket : RM35
Enquiry : 03-4047 9000 KLPac/ 012-661-7654 Artists Platform


In March 1840, Robert wrote to his fiancée: “Why not write a song! Once you’ve begun, you just can’t stop. It is simply too tempting.” But Clara rejected the idea the very next day. It was not until December of the same year that Clara finally took up her husband’s suggestion. In September 1841 Robert and Clara published a collection of songs and duets under the title Twelve Poems from F. Ruckert’s Spring of Love for Voice and Piano by Robert and Clara Schumann. It was released just on time for Clara’s 22nd birthday.

Programme

Robert and Clara Schumann
Zwölf Gedichte aus “Liebesfrühling” Op.37 (Rückert)
1 Der Himmel hat eine Träne geweint
2 Er ist gekommen
3 O ihr Herren
4 Liebst du um Schönheit
5 Ich hab in mich gesogen
6 Liebste, was kann denn uns scheiden?
7 Schön ist das Fest des Lenzes
8 Flügel! Flügel! um zu fliegen
9 Rose, Meer und Sonne
10 O Sonn’, O Meer, O Rose
11 Warum willst du andre fragen?
12 So wahr die Sonne scheint


INTERVAL

Robert Schumann
Frauenliebe und Leben op.42
Song cycle after poems by Adelbert von Chamisso

1. Seit ich ihn gesehen
2. Er, der Herrlichste von allen
3. Ich kann's nicht fassen, nicht glauben
4. Du Ring an meinem Finger
5. Helft mir, ihr Schwestern
6. Süßer Freund, du blickest
7. An meinem Herzen, an meiner Brust
8. Nun hast du mir den ersten Schmerz getan

Gustav Mahler - Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen
(based on Des Knaben Wunderhorn)
1 Wenn mein Schatz Hcichzeit macht
2 Ging eines Morgen über’s Feld
3 Ich hab’ ein glühend Messer
4 Die zwei blauen Augen

Performers
Chia Yee Yean - soprano
Raymond Lee - tenor
Eddy Chin - baritone
Kok-Ting Chong - piano