Lunch-concert - Schwanengesang
Event details
| Date | 13.10.2016 |
| Hour | 12:00 › 13:30 |
| Speaker | Alexander Puhrer (chanteur et alumni EPFL), Senka Brankovic (pianiste) |
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| Category | Cultural events |
Singer and EPFL alumni Alexander Puhrer comes back on the EPFL campus to sing "Schwanengesang" (Swan Song) by Franz Schubert. This posthumous collection holds fourteen lieders inspired by the poems of Ludwig Rellstab, Heinrich Heine and Johann Gabriel Seidl.
The Schwanengesang lieders alternate between quiet and light (Frühlingssehnsucht, Die Taubenpost), dramatic (der Atlas), or even raving (Die Stadt, der Doppelgänger). Numerous themes are tackled by the poems : the world and nature, the hallucinatory wanderings of the character, nostalgia. The musical style is varied, from melancholia (Ihr Bild, Das Fischermädchen) to elegiac Ständchen, from dark quality (Aufenthalt, Der Atlas, Die Stadt) to the joyful and light tone of Abschied and wonderful Die Taubenpost, which ends the collection of poems and is often seen as Schubert’s last poem.
Alexander Puhrer (voice)
Senka Brankovic (piano)
The Schwanengesang lieders alternate between quiet and light (Frühlingssehnsucht, Die Taubenpost), dramatic (der Atlas), or even raving (Die Stadt, der Doppelgänger). Numerous themes are tackled by the poems : the world and nature, the hallucinatory wanderings of the character, nostalgia. The musical style is varied, from melancholia (Ihr Bild, Das Fischermädchen) to elegiac Ständchen, from dark quality (Aufenthalt, Der Atlas, Die Stadt) to the joyful and light tone of Abschied and wonderful Die Taubenpost, which ends the collection of poems and is often seen as Schubert’s last poem.
Alexander Puhrer (voice)
Senka Brankovic (piano)
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Practical information
- General public
- Free
Organizer
- Affaires culturelles et artistiques de l'EPFL
Contact
- Virginie Martin Nunez