Life Victoria Barcelona | Live
Discover a fantastic double program live from the Lied Festival Victoria de los Ángeles in Barcelona:
Siân Decker & Krystal Tunnicliffe | Life Journey | 5:30 p.m.
In collaboration with Oxford Lieder, International Partner of LIFE Victoria, we welcome the Spanish debut of the winners of the Oxford Lieder Young Artist Platform 2020, the duo formed by soprano Sian Dicker and pianist Krystal Tunnicliffe. Together they will offer us a journey through the life trajectory of a person.
From the childhood joy of the Children's Songs composed by the little-known Muriel Herbert, through the excitement of adolescence and the disenchantment of adulthood, to old age, with Finzi's Transformations, emphasising that this vital journey is, after all, a circular one. A transformation.
Sarah Connolly & Julius Drake | Viennese Journey with Alma Mahler | 7:00 p.m.
Announced in the two previous editions of LIFE Victoria, the Festival has wanted to maintain its commitment to Dame Sarah Connolly, one of the great mezzo-sopranos of the current scene. It will do so by maintaining the programme it was going to offer in 2019 around Alma Mahler and the contemporary composers of Vienna at that time, putting into context the compositions of this artist who has often been hidden under the lengthening shadow of her first husband.
It begins with the preamble of Johannes Brahms, through Hugo Wolf, who exploited the exacerbated romanticism of the song, arriving at the compositions of the Mahler couple. The marital relationship between Gustav and Alma was rather tortuous: judged as a femme fatale for her infidelity with Walter Gropius - founder of the Bauhaus and whom she would later marry - recent studies have shown that her history with Mahler was full of greys...
Here Connolly confronts his compositions. The tour will end with the Viennese post-Romanticism of Alexander von Zemlinsky and these six Lieder based on symbolist texts by Maurice Meterlinck. A fascinating woman in a fascinating historical moment.
Life Journey | 5:30 p.m.
Siân Dicker, soprano
Krystal Tunnicliffe, piano
Muriel Herbert (1897-1984)
Children’s Songs
Merry-Go-Round / The Gypsies / The Tadpole / Jack Spratt / Acorn and Willow / The Bunny
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1766-1791)
An Chloë
Jean Sibelius (1865-1957)
Op. 37
Den första kyssen / Var det en dröm? / Flickan kom ifrån sin älsklings möte
Richard Hageman (1881-1906)
Do Not Go My Love
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Als Luise die Briefe ihres ungetreuen Liebhabers verbrannte
Hugo Wolf (1860-1903)
from Goethe Lieder
Mignon I Heiss mich nicht reden / Mignon II Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt / Mignon III So lasst mich scheinen
Gerald Finzi (1901-1956)
In Years Defaced / Life Laughs Onwards / The Clock Of The Years / Transformations
Viennese trip with Alma Mahler | 7:00 p.m.
Sarah Connolly, mezzosoprano
Julius Drake, piano
I
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Ständchen Op. 106 No. 1
Da unten im Tale Op. 33 No. 6
Feldeinsamkeit Op. 86 No. 2
Die Mainacht Op. 43 No. 2
Von ewiger Liebe Op. 43 No. 1
Hugo Wolf (1860-1903)
‘Auch kleine Dinge’ from Italienisches Liederbuch
‘Gesang Weylas, No. 46′ from Mörike Lieder
‘Nachtzauber’ from Eichendorff-Lieder
‘Mignon IV: Kennst du das Land, No. 9′ from Goethe Lieder
‘Die Zigeunerin’ from Eichendorff-Lieder
II
Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
Trois Chansons de Bilitis
La flûte de Pan / La chevelure / Le tombeau des naïades
Alma Mahler (1879-1964)
Die stille Stadt / Licht in der Nacht / Bei dir ist es Traut
Gustav Mahler (1860-1911)
from Des Knaben Wunderhorn
Das irdische Leben / Wo die schönen Trompeten blasen / Rheinlegendchen
Alexander von Zemlinsky (1872-1942)
Maeterlinck Lieder
I. Die drei Schwestern
II. Die Mädchen mit den verbundenen Augen
III. Lied der Jungfrau
IV. Als ihr Geliebter schied
V. Und kehrt er einst heim
VI. Sie kam zum Schloss gegangen
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