Dame Sarah Connolly & Joseph Middleton
Friday, 10 November 2023 – 8 pm
Sala Domènech i Montaner – Sant Pau Recinte Modernista
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Dame Sarah Connolly, mezzosoprano
Joseph Middleton, piano
Mahler I: The Need for Mahler
One of today's great Mahler interpreters, Dame Sarah Connolly, remembers the composer in a tribute for the centenary of Victoria de los Ángeles. Mahler's music, which Victoria herself admitted she "needed very much," was performed by her on several occasions, especially certain Lieder from the cycle Des Knaben Wunderhorn; however, Victoria's relationship with Mahler was primarily one of inspiration, even choosing the Adagietto as the only record she would take to a desert island. This Dame, already beloved by the LIFE Victoria audience, returns to the Sant Pau Recinte Modernista for the third consecutive year, on this occasion joined by Joseph Middleton, in a program where Mahler dialogues with other composers and also with Victoria on the occasion of her centenary.
I
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Ständchen Op. 106 No. 1
Da unten im Tale WoO 33 No. 6
O kühler Wald Op. 72 No. 3
Drei Gesänge Op. 91
Gestillte Sehnsucht
Gestliches Wiegenlied
Gustav Mahler (1860-1911)
Rückert-Lieder
Blicke mir nicht in die Lieder!
Ich atmet’ einen linden Duft
Um Mitternacht
Liebst du um Schönheit
Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen
II
Albert Roussel (1869-1937)
Le jardin mouillé Op. 3 No. 3
Nuit d’automne Op. 8 No. 3
Bachelier de Salamanque
Frank Bridge (1879-1941)
Day after day
Speak to me, my love
Ernest John Moeran (1894-1950)
Twilight
Ivor Gurney (1890-1937)
Thou did’st delight my eyes
John Ireland (1914-1992)
Earth’s Call
Gustav Mahler
Kindertotenlieder
Nun will die Sonn' so hell aufgeh'n
Nun seh' ich wohl, why so dunkle Flammen
Wenn dein Mütterlein
Oft denk' ich, sie sind nur ausgegangen
In diesem Wetter!
