For Song Lovers!
Evening Music | May 6, 2010
From Leonin (the other half of Perotin that is) to Lennon (the other half of McCartney that is), we’ve got music from across the ages that you can sing to all night long.
As Lennon and McCartney put it, “All you need is Love.” Well, love reaches across the ages to be sure; we’ll hear some inspired love songs from Elizabethan-era composer Tobias Hume, sung by the ethereal soprano Emma Kirkby. Then it’s off to the cabaret with Hanns Eisler’s wry take on Bertolt Brecht in “Change the World: It Needs It,” sung by Sylvia Anders. German bass-baritone Matthias Goerne takes us on a tour of Tinseltown with “Seven Hollywood Elegies,” another work by Eisler. After that, it’s time to get back to our vocal roots with some of the first music we can actually put a name to. We’ll hear Notre Dame composer Leonin’s “Viderunt omnes,” brought to life by the Early Music Consort of London. Some of the greatest works in the classical vocal repertoire belong to that master of all things Lieder, Franz Schubert. We’ll hear his “An Sylvia” sung with panache by mezzo-soprano Anne Sofie von Otter, and sterling bass-baritone Thomas Quasthoff will treat us to bonus Schubert tracks with selections from “Die Schöne Müllerin.” Oh, and remember the Beatles? We’ll polish off the night with a suite for guitar and orchestra, “From Yesterday to Penny Lane,” arranged and performed by guitarist Leo Brouwer with the Sinfonia Nacional de Cuba.
As Lennon and McCartney put it, “All you need is Love.” Well, love reaches across the ages to be sure; we’ll hear some inspired love songs from Elizabethan-era composer Tobias Hume, sung by the ethereal soprano Emma Kirkby. Then it’s off to the cabaret with Hanns Eisler’s wry take on Bertolt Brecht in “Change the World: It Needs It,” sung by Sylvia Anders. German bass-baritone Matthias Goerne takes us on a tour of Tinseltown with “Seven Hollywood Elegies,” another work by Eisler. After that, it’s time to get back to our vocal roots with some of the first music we can actually put a name to. We’ll hear Notre Dame composer Leonin’s “Viderunt omnes,” brought to life by the Early Music Consort of London. Some of the greatest works in the classical vocal repertoire belong to that master of all things Lieder, Franz Schubert. We’ll hear his “An Sylvia” sung with panache by mezzo-soprano Anne Sofie von Otter, and sterling bass-baritone Thomas Quasthoff will treat us to bonus Schubert tracks with selections from “Die Schöne Müllerin.” Oh, and remember the Beatles? We’ll polish off the night with a suite for guitar and orchestra, “From Yesterday to Penny Lane,” arranged and performed by guitarist Leo Brouwer with the Sinfonia Nacional de Cuba.
