Creative fire
The 13th Liedtage at the Weimar University of Music invites to reading, Goethe and portrait concerts
Lovers of art song are cordially invited to the "Liedtage XIII" at the University of Music FRANZ LISZT Weimar. Lied professor Karl-Peter Kammerlander has put together a varied, cleverly conceived program of four song recitals from May 30 to July 4.
Mostly students and alumni of the Institute of Voice and Music Theater will sing, accompanied in the song duets on the piano by fellow students from various institutes. Admission to all concerts is free!
The first concert will be on Tuesday, May 30 at 7:30 p.m. in the Festsaal Fürstenhaus with songs by Hugo Wolf and prose and poetry by Paul Heyse. Heyse's "Italian Songbook" dates from the 1850s, and the composer Hugo Wolf was so enchanted by it that he set it to music in two booklets.
In the "LeseConcert" some male songs from Wolf's "Italienisches Liederbuch" are interspersed with Heyse's most famous novella "L'arrabiata". Christoph Kurzweil (baritone) sings, accompanied on the piano by Sofiia Mushtai. The readings are by Marietta Karus-Zumbült and Michael Dissmeier.
This will be followed by a "PortraitConcert" on Wednesday, May 31 at 7:30 p.m. in the Festsaal Fürstenhaus, where songs by Hugo Wolf based on various poets will be on the program. They will be interpreted by song duos Evelina Liubonko (soprano) and Jongwoo Kim (tenor), as well as Eunhyuk Lee (bass) and Megumi Hata (piano).
"Wolf composed eruptively, almost as if under a literary drug, within a few weeks song convolutes of one poet each: Goethe, Heyse, Geibel, Mörike, Michelangelo, Keller," explains Prof. Karl-Peter Kammerlander as overall artistic director of the Liedtage. "To this day, song-loving posterity cannot escape the products of this fire."
The following day, the Liedtage invites you to a "GoetheConcert." Four Lied duos will perform various Goethe settings at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, June 1, in the Festsaal Fürstenhaus. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's reception and impact beyond German borders is also of interest to the Lied: his poems were translated, and these translations set to music.
This evening of song will illuminate this double transformation by juxtaposing settings of the German Goethe (by Schubert, Zelter, Brahms, etc.) with those of the translated Goethe (by Verdi, Medtner, Duparc, etc.).
To conclude the Liedtage, there will be another "StipendiatinnenConcert" one month later on Tuesday, July 4 at 7:30 p.m. in the Festsaal Fürstenhaus. Mezzo-soprano Christel Loetzsch and pianist Teodora Oprisor, who have been scholarship holders in the Thuringian Excellence Program for the promotion of young female artists over the past four semesters, will be on stage.
In the first concert part, they present and moderate results of their pedagogical work; in the second part, the scholarship holders make music. Both parts include French songs, all by non-French composers: Liszt, Wagner, Mozart, de Falla, Britten, and Barber.
[16 May 2023]