Cornelia Sonnleithner alto Clara Sophia Murnig piano

Programme

Gustav Mahler

Children's death songs

Now the sun wants to rise so brightly

Now I can see why such dark flames

When your little mum

I often think they've just gone out

In this weather

Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky

Songs and dances of death

Lullaby

Serenade

Trepak

The commander

- INTERMISSION -

Johannes Brahms

Four serious songs

For it goes to man

I turned

O death, how bitter you are

If I spoke with the tongues of men and with the tongues of angels

The Lied duo Cornelia Sonnleithner and Clara Sophia Murnig invite you to a concert evening of particular emotional intensity. Entitled "Death, the Muse - Brahms and Mahler on the Wieden", the project is dedicated to the eternal theme of transience - a field of tension between farewell and new beginnings, pain and consolation, past and future. It is about love, which lives on in various facets despite all the blows of fate - sombre, poetic and profound.
The programme brings together works by great composers such as Johannes Brahms, Gustav Mahler and Modest Mussorgsky, whose music deals with death, memory and transience in a touching and individual way. The selected songs and compositions open up a space for musical melancholy, quiet beauty and reflected emotion.
A special focus is placed on the 4th district of Vienna - Wieden. The artists combine music with local history to create a unique cultural experience. Wieden was once the site of a "poor sinner's cemetery", a cemetery for destitute deceased people in Argentinierstraße. A historical brotherhood of the dead, whose headquarters were located in the Augustinian church, was closely linked to this. This deeply rooted culture of the dead in the heart of Vienna lends the project a special historical and cultural dimension.
The concert project sees itself as an artistic bridge between past and present, music and memory, intimacy and publicity. It invites the audience to embark on an emotional journey - carried by sound, history and the quiet beauty of the ephemeral.

Organised by Cornelia Sonnleithner and Clara Sophia Murnig. Admission: free donation.