Julius Drake meets: Fleur Barron and Laurence Kilsby
Kindertotenlieder and parts from Des Knaben Wunderhorn
Sold out
Recital Hall
Programme
Mahler - Um schlimme Kinder artig zu machen (from ‘Des Knaben Wunderhorn’)
Mahler - Ich ging mit Lust durch einen grünen Wald (from ‘Des Knaben Wunderhorn’)
Mahler - Aus! Aus! (from ‘Des Knaben Wunderhorn’)
Mahler - Starke Einbildungskraft (from ‘Des Knaben Wunderhorn’)
Mahler - Zu Straßburg auf der Schanz' (from ‘Lieder und Gesänge’)
Mahler - Ablösung im Sommer (from ‘Lieder und Gesänge’)
Mahler - Selbstgefühl (from ‘Lieder und Gesänge’)
Mahler - Nicht wiedersehen! (from ‘Lieder und Gesänge’)
Mahler - Scheiden und Meiden (from ‘Lieder und Gesänge’)
Mahler - Nun will die Sonn' so hell aufgeh'n (from ‘Kindertotenlieder’)
Mahler - Nun seh' ich wohl, warum so dunkle Flammen (from ‘Kindertotenlieder’)
Mahler - Wenn dein Mütterlein (from ‘Kindertotenlieder’)
Mahler - Oft denk' ich, sie sind nur ausgegangen (from ‘Kindertotenlieder’)
Mahler - In diesem Wetter, in diesem Braus (from ‘Kindertotenlieder’)
This concert has no intermission
Musicians
Mezzo-soprano: Fleur Barron
Tenor: Laurence Kilsby
Piano: Julius Drake
Fleur Barron and Laurence Kilsby
The Recital Hall is dedicated to Mahler's most beautiful songs during the Mahler Festival. Perhaps today's most important Lieder accompanist, pianist Julius Drake, flanks his favourite vocalists. Today, you hear British mezzo-soprano Fleur Barron, praised by critics for her charisma and clarity. You will also hear young tenor Laurence Kilsby, the 2022 winner of the Wigmore Hall's International Song Competition.
Kindertotenlieder
Mahler's moving Kindertotenlieder are set to texts by Friedrich Rückert. This song cycle deals with coping with the death of two of the poet's children. Some years after its completion, Mahler himself lost his daughter. Julius Drake had already regularly performed the Kindertotenlieder with Fleur Barron. 'Fleur has such an extraordinary voice,' he said in Preludium.' A mezzo, but when she sings, you can hear a contra-alt, very special.' Drake also chose several pieces from Des Knaben Wunderhorn for this recital. For these works, Mahler based himself on old German folk song texts. Mahler drew from the same textbook before. Today, Barron and tenor Laurence Kilsby perform the Lieder und Gesänge, a song cycle Mahler wrote in his twenties.