Julius Drake meets: Axelle Fanyo and Raoul Steffani
Song recital Alma Mahler and friends
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Recital Hall
Programme
A. Mahler - Die stille Stadt (from ‘Fünf Lieder’)
Zemlinsky - Sie kam zum Schloss gegangen (from ‘Sechs Gesänge’, op. 13)
A. Mahler - In Meines Vaters Garten (from ‘Fünf Lieder’)
Berg - Schlafen, schlafen (from ‘Vier Lieder’, op. 2)
A. Mahler - Laue Sommernacht (from ‘Fünf Lieder’)
Schönberg - Erwartung (from ‘Vier Lieder’, op. 2)
A. Mahler - Bei dir ist es traut (from ‘Fünf Lieder’)
Webern - Dies ist ein Lied für dich allein (from ‘Fünf Lieder aus Der siebente Ring’)
A. Mahler - Ich wandle unter Blumen (from ‘Fünf Lieder’)
Pfitzner - Zum Abschied meiner Tochter (from ‘Drei Lieder’, op. 10)
A. Mahler - Hymne (from ‘Fünf Gesänge’)
Korngold - Glückwunsch (from ‘Fünf Lieder’, op. 38)
A. Mahler - Der Erkennende (from ‘Fünf Lieder’)
Diepenbrock - En sourdine
A. Mahler - Hymne an die Nacht (from ‘Fünf Gesänge’)
Stravinsky - La lune blanche (from ‘Deux poèmes de Paul Verlaine’, op. 9)
A. Mahler - Ekstase (from ‘Fünf Lieder’)
Britten - A Song of Enchantment (from ‘Tit for Tat’)
A. Mahler - Lobgesang (from ‘Fünf Gesänge’)
Bernstein - When my soul touches yours (from ‘Two Love Songs’)
This concert has no intermission
Musicians
Soprano: Axelle Fanyo
Baritone: Raoul Steffani
Piano Julius Drake
Axelle Fanyo and Raoul Steffani
For four days, the Recital Hall is dedicated to Mahler's most beautiful songs. A special recital is dedicated to his wife Alma, combining pieces by her with those by friends. Perhaps today's most important Lieder accompanist, pianist Julius Drake, flanks his favourite vocalists during all these concerts. Today you will hear French soprano Axelle Fanyo, a 'true storyteller' according to Forum Opéra. She shares the stage with one of the greatest Dutch talents, baritone Raoul Steffani.
Alma Mahler
Austrian Alma Maria Schindler was introduced to her future husband, Gustav Mahler, by her composition teacher Zemlinsky. Under Mahler's name, she would become known - but never primarily as a composer. Mahler did not want his wife to write any more music, and Alma herself also had doubts about her work. Although most of it has been lost, her late-romantic, often melancholic songs are still widely performed. Here today in the Recital Hall, they alternate with pieces by friends and acquaintances. Axelle Fanyo and Raoul Steffani perform songs by Ernst Krenek, Mahler's son-in-law. You will also hear works by Berg, Korngold and Stravinsky.