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
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
