蜜芽传媒

Mezzo-soprano Catherine Wyn-Rogers joins pianist Joseph Middleton in this exploration of songs by Duparc and his contemporaries.

The name Henri Duparc is admitted into the great roll-call of French song composers on account of only 16 solo songs and a duet. Born in 1848, by the time he was 35 he had written the songs that were to ensure his immortality and, due to an obscure nervous disease, he wrote no more until he died age85, in 1933. Duparc's first song was written in 1868, a year before the death of Berlioz; his last in 1884, a year after the death of Wagner. He destroyed many compositions, such was his perfectionist nature This series seeks to place Duparc's songs in the wider context of works by his friends, influences and contemporaries, thus highlighting his remarkable gift for setting poetry for voice and piano.

This concert is themed 'Constraint au silence'. The singer is mute - madness and the sacred in music.

DUPARC Le manoir de Rosemonde; Testament
WOLF Nun bin ich dein; Nun wandre, Marie; Die ihr schwebet; Ach, das Knaben Augen; Herr, was tr盲gt der Boden hier
SCHUMANN Gedichte der K枚nigen Maria Stuart
FAURE Au cimeti猫re; Das les ruines d'une Abbaye; M茅lisande's Song
DUPARC Lamento; La vie ant茅rieure.