Anna Prohaska / Julius Drake
»Paradise Lost« – Song Recital
In search of paradise lost
Back in the 17th century, English poet John Milton set out in search of »Paradise Lost« in his epic poem of that name: a place that the celebrated soprano Anna Prohaska and pianist Julius Drake also travel to together. In their song recital of the same name, great composers from different eras and countries point the way thither in music. In England, for example, composers like Henry Purcell and Benjamin Britten were spellbound by Milton’s masterpiece, and set related texts to music.
But in the German-speaking countries as well, various song composers took inspiration on more than one occasion from the story of Adam, Eve and the apple, among them such heavyweights as Schubert, Schumann and Brahms. The viewpoints taken couldn’t be more different – from Ravel’s nature idyll »Trois beaux oiseaux du Paradis« through Charles Ives’s melancholy »Evening« to Hanns Eisler’s cynical »Hollywood Elegies«. So the audience can look forward to an excursion to the Garden of Eden full of variety.
Performers
Anna Prohaska soprano
Julius Drake piano
Programme
Paradise Lost
Morning in Paradise - Eve Awakens - Eve breathes life into God’s creation
Maurice Ravel
Trois beaux oiseaux du paradis / from: Trois chanson
Olivier Messiaen
Bonjour toi, colombe verte / aus: Harawi. Chant d’amour et de mort
Jean-Yves Daniel-Lesur
Ce qu’Adam dit à Ève / from: Clair comme le jour
Claude Debussy
Apparition »La lune s’attristait«
Pastoral Idyll - Playing with Fire - Eve and Evil - The Fall of Man
Maurice Ravel
Air du feu / from the opera »L’enfant et les sortilèges«
Igor Strawinsky
Pastorale / Gesang ohne Worte
Hugo Wolf
Die Spröde / from: Goethe-Lieder
Die Bekehrte / from: Goethe-Lieder
Aribert Reimann
Gib mir den Apfel / from: Kinderlieder
Benjamin Britten
A Poison Tree / from: Songs and Proverbs of William Blake, Op. 74
Hans Pfitzner
Röschen biss den Apfel an / from: Alte Weise, Op. 33
Johannes Brahms
Salamander, Op. 107/2
– Interval –
»Banishment - Exodus – Memories«
Sergej Rachmaninow
A-Oo! / from: Six Songs, Op. 38
Charles Ives
Evening
Henry Purcell
Sleep, Adam, Sleep, and Take Thy Rest, Z195
Franz Schubert
Auflösung, D 807
Abendstern, D 806
Robert Schumann
Jetzt sank des Abends gold’ner Schein / from: Das Paradies und die Peri, Op. 50
Warte, warte, wilder Schiffmann / from: Liederkreis, Op. 24
»Earthly Life«
Hanns Eisler
Jeden Morgen mein Brot zu verdienen / from: Hollywood-Elegien
Diese Stadt hat mich belehrt / from: Hollywood-Elegien
Gustav Mahler
Das irdische Leben / from: Des Knaben Wunderhorn
George Crumb
Wind Elegy / from: Three Early Songs
Leonard Bernstein
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