Daniel F. Azar baritone
Nina Violetta Aichner piano
Sergei Rachmaninov
Night, song without opus, (Moscow, 1900)
Daniil Maximovich Rathaus
She is as Beautiful as Midday, op. 14, no. 9 (ca. 1894-96)
Nikolai Maksimovich Minsky
On the Death of a Linnet, op. 21, no. 8 (ca. 1900-02)
Vasily Andreyevich Zhukovsky
Yesterday we met, Op. 26 No. 13 (1906)
Yakov Petrovich Polonsky
Amy Marcy Beach
I did not say, Op. 51 No. 1 (1903)
Eduard Wissmann
Marie-Juliette Olga "Lili" Boulanger
Nous nous aimerons tant (We will love each other so much),
from "Clairières dans le ciel" (1913-14)
Francis Jammes
Juliette Nadia Boulanger
Soleils couchants (The sleeping suns) (1907)
Paul Verlaine
Maurice Ravel
Histoires naturelles (Natural Histories) (1906)
Jules Renard
Le paon (The peacock)
Le grillon (The cricket)
Le cygne (The Swan)
Le Martin-pêcheur (The Kingfisher)
La pintade (The guinea fowl)
- INTERMISSION -
Frederic Mompou i Dencausse
Le vin perdu (The lost wine),
from "Cinq mélodies sur des Textes de Paul Valéry" (1973)
Paul Valéry
Sergei Rachmaninov
Six Romances, op. 38 (1916)
In my garden at night
Alexander Alexandrovich Blok, after Avetik Issahakyan
For them
"Andrei Bely", eg. Boris Pavlovich Bugayev
The daisies
"Igor Severyanin", eg. Igor Vasilyevich Lotaryov
The Pied Piper
Valery Yakovlevich Bryusov
The dream
"Fyodor Sologub", eg. Fyodor Kuzmich Teternikov
A-u!
Konstantin Dmitrievich Balmont, after Edgar Allan Poe
Bohuslav Martinů
Dvě písně / Deux Chansons H. 213b
(Two songs for low voice and piano, sung in French) (1932)
Květ broskví / Fleur du pêcher (The Rose Owl)
Based on a Chinese poem by Zhang Ruoxu
Chorý podzim / Automne malade (Sick Autumn)
Guillaume Apollinaire
Maurice Ravel
Don Quichotte à Dulcinée (Don Quixote to Dulcinea) (1932-33)
Paul Morand
Chanson romanesque (Romantic song)
Chanson épique (Epic song)
Chanson à boire (Drinking song)
A journey through the 20th century with the art of song.
From late Romanticism to Impressionism and other movements in tonal music through to modernism, this colourful musical programme depicts the exploration of new expressive possibilities and the search for the limits of tonality without ever exceeding them.
In their programme RACHMANIVEL the French-speaking Lebanese baritone Daniel F. Azar and the Austrian pianist of Hungarian origin Nina Violetta Aichner shed light not only on the well-known composers Sergei Rachmaninov and Maurice Ravel, but also on lesser-known jewels of 20th century song art. In addition to Rachmaninov and Ravel, the programme includes five other outstanding composers (Amy Beach, Lili Boulanger, Nadia Boulanger, Bohuslav Martinů and Frederic Mompou), including three women, three sung languages and various cultural regions, including the Russian Empire, the first Czechoslovak Republic, France, Catalonia and the USA.
Organised by Daniel F. Azar. Tickets
