"The voices of romanticism" in Museum of Musical Culture named after M. I. Glinka
THE VOICES OF ROMANTICISM
27th of October 2012, 19.00
All-Russian Museum Complex of Musical Culture named after M. I. Glinka
Fadeev street, 4
Prokofiev Hall
On October, 27th in the context of the Year of Germany in Russia Marina Karpechenko and Elena Sosulnikova from Moscow Musical theater "Helikon-Opera" under Dmitry Bertman will perform "The Voices of Romanticism" program on stage of Prokofiev Hall of Museum of Musical Culture named after M. Glinka. The program includes songs by Johannes Brahms, Gustav Mahler, Hugo Wolf and Richard Strauss on poems of German poets.
In Germany in the XIX century romantic song was as popular as a romance in Russia. The best composers reffered to it, a number of works is counted in hundreds and thousands (the heroes of today's concert wrote a total of about 800 songs). If Russian romances were created in the tradition of Glinka and Dargomyzhsky, in Germany songs by Schubert and Schumann were the unmatched samples. In both countries, composers equally liked folk songs - Brahms here is not at odds with Mussorgsky.
Brahms, Mahler, Wolf and Richard Strauss belong to different generations, but twenty selected songs created about the same time - in the late 1880s. This was the heyday of the late romantic and artistic climax of the song, when new masterpieces were born every year.
Interestingly, at that time the musicians preferred the poetry of the early XIX century, when romanticism was just born. Poetic tastes changed little since Schubert. In the early romantic poems composers found the desire for the ideal and admiration for the beauty that was just leaving the contemporary poetry.
The great Goethe presented by Wolf's "Mignon". "I went into the woods" and "Separation" Mahler wrote on the verses from "The Boy's Magic Horn" - collection of German folk poetry, published in Heidelberg in 1806-1808. The poetry of Friedrich Ruckert, Joseph von Eichendorff and their younger contemporary of Edward Merike whom Hugo Wolfe called "divine" presented in the program. The songs on Merike's verses will feature "Spring has come," and "Song of Vail". Wolf, who came up with a stage setting for each song in the process of composing, said his Vail goddess is sitting on a rock in the moonlight, singing and playing the harp.
In the program there is a number of forgotten authors, whom even experts do not know today. But the brilliant music of Brahms and Strauss still keeps their poetry from oblivion.
The Honored Artist of Russia Marina Karpechenko (soprano), soloist of the Moscow Musical Theatre "Helikon-opera", graduated from the Russian Academy of Music named after Gnesins. She also finished post-graduate studies in Academy. Her repertoire includes the title role in "Aida" and "Lady Macbeth" by Verdi, Juliet in "The Tales of Hoffmann" by Offenbach, Fata Morgana in Prokofiev's opera "The Love for Three Oranges." The singer brilliantly sang Isabella in the Russian premiere of Wagner's "The Ban of Love". Marina Karpechenko performs in the best concert halls of Moscow, she produced a series of chamber music programs.
Elena Sosulnikova (piano), a concertmaster of "Helikon-Opera", graduated from the Moscow State Conservatory named after P. I. Tchaikovsky. She also finished post-graduate studies in Conservatory and is a laureate of international competitions «Piano Competition», «Music Without Borders," "Piano in jazz". Trained in the U.S. Summer Institute in Graz (Austria), participated in a program of the New York Opera Studio. She has a busy concert schedule.