The programme features four songs each by them, including Mozart’s Lied der Trennung (Song of Parting), which has lent its name to the entire programme, as well as Haydn’s Arianna a Naxos, a dramatic cantata in which the Cretan princess Ariadne expresses her love of the Greek hero Theseus … and her agony when he sails off, leaving her alone on the island of Naxos."Įqually at home on the concert and opera stages, Carolyn Sampson has enjoyed notable successes in the UK as well as throughout Europe and the US. But even though Mozart and Haydn are still household names, it isn’t on account of their solo songs, which makes the performers’ decision to also throw light on their less familiar work a welcome one.
Giving Bezuidenhout's fortepiano the recognition it deserves, the programme also includes no less than two songs dedicated to the instrument, by composers we rarely hear of today: Friedrich Gottlob Fleischer and Christian Michael Wolff. They open with August Bernhard Valentin Herbing's Montan und Lalage, a miniature opera for one singer, with the keyboard-as-orchestra providing the scenery and stage action. In a recital centred on songs of parting, Carolyn Sampson and Kristian Bezuidenhout seek to make some amends to this. "In the early 19th century, while Haydn and Mozart remained revered, many of their once admired contemporaries quickly fell into oblivion and with them much delightful, finely crafted music.
11 Haydn: Das Leben ist ein Traum, Hob.XXVIa:46 (Antwort auf die Frage eines Mädchens) 03:36 523 04:35Ĭhristian Michael Wolff (1707 - 1789): An das Clavier:įriedrich Gottlob Fleischer (1722 - 1806): Das Clavier:įranz Joseph Haydn (1732 - 1809): Der Verlassene, Hob. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791): Das Lied der Trennung, K. August Bernhard Valentin Herbing (1735 - 1766): Musikalischer Versuch:
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