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Songs and Sonnets of Travellers: Chopin, Viardot, Liszt

Songs and Sonnets of Travellers: Chopin, Viardot, Liszt


  • Presenter: The Classical Singers
  • Event Type: Chamber Music, Vocal / Choral Music
  • Event Description:

Warren Lee               pianist

Yoonie Han               pianist
Sylvia Chan               soprano / pianist / producer
Eric Yip                      cellist
Daniel Chua              storyteller

This is the first in a new concert series "Give me my song" that goes in search for what is personal to a composer’s heart – his or her "song" – or at least his or her cosmopolitan mind and soul, while also celebrating the friendship and collaboration between these 3 composers.
We hope to re-create the atmosphere of a 21st-century music salon, with pianists Warren Lee and Yoonie Han, singer-pianist Sylvia Chan, as well as cellist Eric Yip and man-of-letters-cum-storyteller Daniel Chua, and including 2 Asian first performances too.  

I: “The nightsong, the stars and me”
* Liszt, Der du von dem Himmel bist (”You who come from heaven”)
* Viardot, Die Sterne (“The stars”)
II: “Journeying: dreams, beauty”
* Liszt, Vallée d’Obermann (from Années de pèlerinage, Bk 1, "Suisse")
* Liszt, Oh! quand je dors ("Ah, while I sleep")
III: “Inspiration from new lands”
* Viardot, Fleur desséchée ("The withered flower")
* Saint-Saëns, Mon coeur s'ouvre à ta voix ("Softly awakes my heart") – from Samson et Dalila
* Chopin, Barcarolle, Op.60
IV: “Longing, remembrance, reflections”
* Chopin/Liszt, Six Polish songs, no 2 & 3
* Liszt, Ave Maria ”bells of Rome”
V: “Friendships”
* Chopin, Largo – 3rd movt from Cello Sonata
   [a short introduction: readings of letters between Viardot and Liszt]
* Fauré, Après un rêve ("Deep in a dream")
* Chopin, Etudes, Op.10, no 3 & 11
VI: “Give me my song”

 

 

Image Credit: Hong Kong City Hall


Age

6+


Price

Fee, from: 180 HKD (Ticket Price:$330, $250)


Telephone number

+(852) 2921 2840


Links


Address

Hong Kong
5 Edinburgh Place, Central, Hong Kong