Bejun Mehta / Jonathan Ware
Song Recital »Many Loves, One Voice« – Hamburg International Music Festival
More than Baroque
The magazine »Opera News« sees Bejun Mehta as »perhaps today’s most cultivated and musically convincing countertenor«. Mehta already sang as a soloist at the age of ten under Leonard Bernstein, and made his debut in 1998 as Handel’s Partenope at the New York City Opera. Since then, his career has led him to practically all major opera houses and to festivals like the Salzburg Festival. His piano partner is the well-known American lied accompanist Jonathan Ware.
Unlike many of his colleagues, Mehta by no means confines himself to the Baroque repertoire: his concert tonight features the three great composers of the Viennese classical era, Haydn, Mozart und Beethoven. The latter wrote the first song cycle in music history: »An die ferne Geliebte«. And Mehta goes even further: with Benjamin Britten, a composer of the 20th century is also part of the programme.
Performers
Bejun Mehta countertenor
Jonathan Ware piano
Programme
Many Loves, One Voice
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Ombra felice / Rezitativ und Arie für Alt KV 255
Benjamin Britten
Canticle I »My Beloved Is Mine« op. 40
Ludwig van Beethoven
An die ferne Geliebte op. 98
– Interval –
Henry Purcell / Benjamin Britten
Man Is for the Woman Made
Joseph Haydn
Fidelity Hob. XXVIa:30 »While Hollow Burst the Rushing Winds«
She Never Told Her Love Hob. XXVIa:34
Henry Purcell / Benjamin Britten
An Evening Hymn
Joseph Haydn
Arianna a Naxos / Kantate Hob. XXVIb:2
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Benjamin Britten
O’ Waly, Waly / aus: Folksong Arrangements, Band 3
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Festival
Hamburg International Music Festival