Ian Bostridge
photo by: Ben Ealovega
Philadelphia Chamber Music Society
Angelika Kirchschlager,
mezzo-soprano
Ian Bostridge, tenor
Julius Drake, piano
Presented in collaboration with the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts
Perelman Theater| Tuesday, February 5 | 8pm | buy tickets! |
Wolf: Spanisches Liederbuch: Geistliche Lieder
Wolf: Spanisches Liederbuch: Weltliche Lieder
After hearing both artists in solo concerts last season -- PCMS unites these two singers in a recital featuring the lucid, wide-ranging collection of songs from Hugo Wolf's spiritual and secular Spanish Songbook. Composed in 1889-90, Hugo Wolf's Spanish Songbook represents not just one of the peaks of his own work but is a highlight of the entire lieder repertoire. At the top of his game, the Austrian song specialist channeled extraordinary variety into these German translations of (mainly) anonymous Spanish poetry, the first 10 labeled spiritual songs, the remaining items secular. Each one defines an emotional mood with precision and refinement. Britain's Opera Today said of this duo's performance of Hugo Wolf's treatment of 16th- and 17th-century Spanish poems: "Ian Bostridge and Angelika Kirchschlager revealed the profound emotional intensity of Wolf's art; the concentrated ardor of their performance intimated the heightened passion and expressive angst which, as well as driving Wolf's creative spirit, also led to persistent depression and resulted in insanity and finally death in a mental asylum at the age of 42."
6:45pm - 7:30pm: Free Pre-concert Lecture in the Comcast Circle (Tier I) with Christine Anderson
All artists and programs subject to change.