Matthias Goerne et Mikhaïl Pletnev

Matthias Goerne baritone Mikhaïl Pletnev piano

Matthias Goerne and Mikhaïl Pletnev, two giants who champion German Romanticism.

Schubert Meeresstille, Ganymed, Harfner-Gesänge Nos. 1 and 3, Grenzen der Menschheit, Willkommen und Abschied, Erlkönig Schumann Widmung, Dichters Genesung, Liebesbotschaft, Der Himmel hat eine

Träne geweint, Ich sende einen Gruss wie Duft der Rosen, Was will die einsame Träne, Abendlied Brahms Vier erste Gesänge Wolf Der Jäger, An die Geliebte, Verborgenheit, Begegnung, Neue Liebe, Der Feuerreiter In brief

The lied has its origins in the ecclesiastical and popular German songs of the sixteenth century, before gradually becoming a solo vocal form that reached its maturity in the nineteenth century with Schumann, Schubert and Brahms. Hugo Wolf followed in the footsteps of these illustrious predecessors. In the late 1880s, in little more than three years, he wrote some 242 Lieder, among them the 53 pieces of Mörike's celebrated collection, several of which are performed this evening. Here Wolf succeeds Schubert and Schumann just as Mörike succeeds Goethe, with an incomparable sense of dramatic stakes at their highest level of emotional intensity.

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