Midday-concert - Musical peregrinations
Event details
Date | 24.04.2018 |
Hour | 12:00 › 13:00 |
Speaker | Matthias Geissbühler (baryton) & Stephanie Gurga (piano) |
Location | |
Category | Cultural events |
With this programme, the musicians present a selection of the finest melodies on the theme of wandering. In the accompaniment resonates the sound trace of the wanderer’s steps. One hears quarter notes, sometimes heavy and sometimes cheerful, which either reflect the feelings of the narrator or the nature that surrounds them, one hears sixteenth notes that blow like the wind or flow like a river - a musical allegory of peregrinations.
The principal component, Songs of Travel by Vaughan Williams on the poems by Robert Louis Stevenson, tells in short fragments the life of a vagabond for whom the road beneath his feet and the vast sky above him are the most important things in his life. The cycle also talks about his beloved and brings us through flowery language to Stevenson’s native country : Scotland.
The programme is completed with different composers and melodies. Henri Duparc invites us to a voyage with Charles Baudelaire’s eponymic poem, Invitation au voyage. Lieder from Schubert and Mendelssohn paint in short fragments scenes of people in search of happiness from love. The musicians also interpret two Lieder by Peter Cornelius - a German composer who is too seldom played ; a master of poetry and music. The opening of the programme makes no exception and will be an excerpt from « Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen » (Songs from a wandering companion) by Gustav Mahler.
Program:
- Songs de Vaughan Williams
- Lieder de Cornelius et Mahler
- Melodies de Duparc et Poulenc
Free entrance
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Practical information
- General public
- Free
Organizer
- Affaires culturelles et artistiques de l'EPFL
Contact
- Virginie Martin