Performing with
Nina Stemme, soprano
Orchestre de Paris; Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor
Nina Stemme, soprano

Programme also includes
Bryce Dessner: Concerto pour violon
Pekka Kuusisto, violin

Created from the happy meeting of Bartók and librettist Béla Balázs, Bluebeard’s Castle was born of the desire to produce an opera in the Hungarian language. Like that of Maeterlinck and Debussy, this collaboration was a tremendous success: few works achieve the calibre of musical and dramatic intensity displayed in this ‘opera in one act, with a prologue’. Succinct and tightly woven, the story is heightened by an orchestra in brilliant, sometimes surreal colours, moving between climactic intensity and mournful layered sound—making this cruel and magnetic fable into a ‘symphonic poem with voice’.

Performing with
Nina Stemme, soprano
Orchestre de Paris; Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor
Nina Stemme, soprano

Programme also includes
Bryce Dessner: Concerto pour violon
Pekka Kuusisto, violin

Created from the happy meeting of Bartók and librettist Béla Balázs, Bluebeard’s Castle was born of the desire to produce an opera in the Hungarian language. Like that of Maeterlinck and Debussy, this collaboration was a tremendous success: few works achieve the calibre of musical and dramatic intensity displayed in this ‘opera in one act, with a prologue’. Succinct and tightly woven, the story is heightened by an orchestra in brilliant, sometimes surreal colours, moving between climactic intensity and mournful layered sound—making this cruel and magnetic fable into a ‘symphonic poem with voice’.

Performing with Julius Drake, piano

Programme
Franz Schubert: Songs – selection
Hugo Wolf: Songs to texts by Eduard Mörike – selection
Mark-Anthony Turnage: Without Ceremony
Songs to texts by William Shakespeare

A native of Canada with British musical career – that is bass-baritone Gerald Finley, who is at home in the opera world and on concert stages. With superb accompanist Julius Drake, he introduces himself in works by Viennese masters of the Lied, Franz Schubert and Hugo Wolf, as well as music by contemporary British composer Mark-Anthony Turnage.

Perfroming with Julius Drake, piano

Programme
Franz Schubert: Songs – selection
Hugo Wolf: Songs to texts by Eduard Mörike – selection
Mark-Anthony Turnage: Without Ceremony
Songs to texts by William Shakespeare

A truly dynamic duo, Canadian baritone Gerald Finley and pianist Julius Drake will perform the world premiere of a song cycle by Mark Anthony Turnage co-commissioned by The Royal Conservatory, the Wigmore Hall, the Vienna Konzerthaus, Vancouver Recital Society, and Stanford University.

Programme

Franz Schubert
“An Sylvia,” D. 891
“Liebesbotschaft,” D. 957, no. 1
“Wanderers Nachtlied II,” D. 768
“Der Winterabend,” D. 938
“Bei dir allein,” D. 866

Hugo Wolf: Songs from the Mörike Lieder
“Gesang Weylas”
“Fussreise”
“Heimweh”
“Begegnung”
“Verborgenheit”
“Der Feuerreiter”
“Um Mitternacht”
“Abschied”

Mark Anthony Turnage (Thomas Hardy): Without Ceremony (North American premiere)*
The Voice
The Walk
I Found Her Out There
The Going
Without Ceremony
Your Last Drive
Let Me Enjoy
Shakespeare in Love

Thomas Morley: “O Mistress Mine” (Twelfth Night)
Erich Korngold: “Under the Greenwood Tree” (As You Like It) from Four Shakespeare Songs, op. 31
Erich Korngold: “Hey Robin” (Twelfth Night) from Songs of the Clown, op. 29
Derek Holman: “When That I Was” (Twelfth Night)
Michael Tippett: Full Fathom Five (The Tempest) from Songs for Ariel
Madeleine Dring: “Take, O Take Those Lips Away” (Measure for Measure)
Cole Porter: “Where is the Life That Late I Led” (Petrucchio – Taming of the Shrew) from Kiss Me Kate

Performing with Julius Drake, piano

Programme to be announced

A truly dynamic duo, Canadian baritone Gerald Finley and pianist Julius Drake will perform the world premiere of a song cycle by Mark Anthony Turnage co-commissioned by The Royal Conservatory, the Wigmore Hall, the Vienna Konzerthaus, Vancouver Recital Society, and Stanford University.

Programme

Franz Schubert
“An Sylvia,” D. 891
“Liebesbotschaft,” D. 957, no. 1
“Wanderers Nachtlied II,” D. 768
“Der Winterabend,” D. 938
“Bei dir allein,” D. 866

Hugo Wolf: Songs from the Mörike Lieder
“Gesang Weylas”
“Fussreise”
“Heimweh”
“Begegnung”
“Verborgenheit”
“Der Feuerreiter”
“Um Mitternacht”
“Abschied”

Mark Anthony Turnage (Thomas Hardy): Without Ceremony (North American premiere)*
The Voice
The Walk
I Found Her Out There
The Going
Without Ceremony
Your Last Drive
Let Me Enjoy
Shakespeare in Love

Thomas Morley: “O Mistress Mine” (Twelfth Night)
Erich Korngold: “Under the Greenwood Tree” (As You Like It) from Four Shakespeare Songs, op. 31
Erich Korngold: “Hey Robin” (Twelfth Night) from Songs of the Clown, op. 29
Derek Holman: “When That I Was” (Twelfth Night)
Michael Tippett: Full Fathom Five (The Tempest) from Songs for Ariel
Madeleine Dring: “Take, O Take Those Lips Away” (Measure for Measure)
Cole Porter: “Where is the Life That Late I Led” (Petrucchio – Taming of the Shrew) from Kiss Me Kate