Daniel Johannsen tenor
Andreas Fröschl piano
Who’s afraid of Benjamin Britten? Not Daniel Johannsen and Andreas Fröschl – after all, they have just performed his exceptionally demanding cycle The Holy Sonnets of John Donne They began working together in 2018 and are now releasing their new joint CD in April 2026 A Britten Song Festival published. The greatest British composer of the 20th century, whose 50th anniversary of his death is being commemorated here, a composer of fascinatingly complex music, yet one who also melts every heart with his arrangements of folk songs – and this, in turn, is precisely what he shares with the other „B“, Johannes Brahms, whose pieces, likewise characterised by Apollonian clarity, delight the mind just as much as his folk songs touch the heart. And At the close of trading in November, the opening piece from Britten’s Winter Words, captures the mood of late autumn days – and of our era – with unsettling accuracy.
Programme
Johannes Brahms
To an Aeolian Harp, Op. 19/5 (Eduard Mörike)
The Wreaths, Op. 46/1 (Georg Friedrich Daumer)
Hungarian, Op. 46/2 (Georg Friedrich Daumer)
The Bowl of Oblivion, Op. 46/3
(Ludwig Hölty)
To the Nightingale, Op. 46/4 (Ludwig Hölty)
Benjamin Britten
Winter Words, Op. 52 (Thomas Hardy)
At the close of trading in November
Midnight on the Great Western
Wagtail and Baby
The little old table
The Choirmaster’s Funeral
Proud Songsters
At Upway railway station
Before Life and After
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Folk song arrangements
Benjamin Britten
The Ash Grove
Oliver Cromwell
The Plough Boy
Johannes Brahms
German Folk Songs, WoO 33
Wake up, my darling
My girl has a rose-shaped mouth
The sun no longer shines
A knight rode by
There lives a fiddler
There is a lime tree
Benjamin Britten
Moore’s Irish Melodies
Aren’t you from Newcastle?
Avenging and bright
The Minstrel Boy
The Last Rose of Summer
Lieber•Lied is the new recital series in the grand Ehrbar Saal. With recitals featuring top-class performers, we aim to attract new audiences to this fascinating genre, spark a fresh enthusiasm for the brilliant combination of poetry and music, and promote outstanding young artists in this field. Let yourself be drawn in – with the help of brief introductions to the works by the series’ artistic director – to the honest emotions of the art song repertoire, which are so close to our hearts, free from any artificiality and experienced first-hand!
The artistic director of the series, Andreas Fröschl, is an internationally sought-after lieder accompanist who has been performing with renowned singers for many years. Now based in Vienna, he has recorded numerous CDs, is passionate about the lieder and passes on this passion to lieder students at the MDW.
Organised by the association Love Song. Tickets priced at €45,–/35,–/10,– (Cat. 1/2/wheelchair users/students up to age 30) are available in advance at eventjet.at (Link) and can be purchased at the box office on the night.
The subscription to the Love•Song You can book tickets for the concert series by telephone on +436642674526 or by email
administration@ehrbarsaal.at can be booked:
€40/30/7.50 (Cat. 1/2/students up to age 30)
