Liederabend Honors Recital

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Two days after the final performance of Rossini's La Gazzetta, cast members gather in NEC's Jordan Hall for a traditional evening of song.

The Liederabend dates back to the 1800s, when musicians and lovers of music would gather at someone's home, and one or more singers would perform the songs of composers of the day. In the field of classical music, these songs are referred to today as "art songs," and the German art songs are called "Lieder."

In Germany, the great age of song came in the 19th century. German and Austrian composers had written music for voice with keyboard before this time, but it was with the flowering of German literature, in the Classical and Romantic eras, that composers found high inspiration in poetry that sparked the genre known as the "Lied."

NEC faculty members Tanya Blaich and Cameron Stowe coach NEC graduate students from the departments of collaborative piano and voice in an evening of song featuring songs by Schumann, Liszt, Duparc, Poulenc, Hoiby, and Strauss.

The Program:
Robert Schumann:
Lust der Sturmnacht

Sehnsucht nach der Waldgegend

Stille Tränen
David Charles Tay, tenor
Mana Tokuno, piano
Henri Duparc:
Au pays où se fait la guerre
La vie antérieure
Jaime Korkos, mezzo-soprano
Christina Chao, piano
Franz Liszt: from Tre sonetti di Petrarca
Marco Antonio Jordao, tenor
Maria Jung, piano
Francis Poulenc:Deux poèmes de Louis Aragon
Laura Soto-Bayomi, soprano
Han-Wen Yu, piano
Lee Hoiby: from I was there
Beginning my studies
O Captain! My Captain!
Leroy Y. Davis, baritone
Pei-Ying Li, piano
Richard Strauss:
Amor
Die Nacht
Cäcilie
Soyoung Park, soprano
Patricia Au, piano