Jan Petryka tenor
Xiaohui Li soprano
KaJeng Wong piano

Programme

Robert Schumann

Song Circle, Op. 39

1. In der Fremde

2. Intermezzo

3. Waldgespräch

5. Mondnacht

Liederalbum für die Jugend, Op. 79

24. Er ist‘s

8. Zigeunerliedchen Nr. 2

Sechs Gesänge, Op. 89

6. Röselein, Röselein!

Sechs Gedichte und Requiem

2. Meine Rose

Lieder und Gesänge aus Wilhelm Meister, Op. 98a

7. Singet nicht in Trauertönen

5. Heiss‘ mich nicht reden

Myrthen, Op. 25

9. Lied der Suleika

Fünf Lieder und Gesänge, Op. 127

1. Sängers Trost

Vier Duette, Op.34

3. Unter‘m Fenster

- INTERMISSION -

Franz Schubert

Der Winterabend D 938

Ganymed D 544

Nacht und Träume D 827

Nachtstück D 672

Licht und Liebe D 352

Vier Impromptus, Op. 142 D 935

3. Theme and five variations

4. Allegro scherzando

Claude Debussy

Quatre Mélodies de Jeunesse

4. Apparition

Green

Franz Liszt

Enfant, si j‘étais roi, S 283

Oh! quand je dors, S 282

The German Lied was born in Vienna, Hamburg, and Leipzig—and today, it thrives in Hong Kong, China, and anywhere people embrace it with sincerity and curiosity. This concert tells that story.
 
The program moves between new beginnings and stillness, between the familiar that slips away and the foreign that gradually becomes one’s own. What does it mean to have no home in Schumann’s forests, yet still sing there? That is the quiet question this evening poses.
 
Trained in Vienna and is deeply rooted in the Austrian concert landscape, tenor Jan Petryka is bringing the Lied home, so to speak—together with two musicians from Asia who have carried it with them from another world. Petryka graduated with honors in “Lied and Oratorio” from the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna and is recognized from the Salzburg Festival, to the Oxford Lieder Festival s one of the most prominent Lied singers of his generation. Bachtrack described his tenor voice as “perfectly focused and led, bright and crystal clear.”
 
Xiaohui Li grew up in China and earned her Artist Diploma at the Hamburg Conservatory – at the very heart of the city where the German Lied has found a special home since Brahms and Groth. Xinmin Wanbao praised her as a soprano of “remarkable precision and artistic sovereignty.” Hong Kong-born KaJeng Wong s one of Asia’s most sought-after pianists; Martha Argerich called him “a special pianist,” and Claude Frank named him the most talented musician of his generation. As a soloist, he will perform two Impromptus by Schubert – pieces where language falls silent and sound alone tells the story.
 
Three performers, three origins, one shared program – and an evening demonstrating that great music does not originate where you grew up, but where you arrive.

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