Concert 3:

This program centres Der Abend by Richard Strauss, combining it with multi-voice arrangements by Clytus Gottwald of further Romantic German Lieder, and two contemporary works.  The pieces connect thematically and poetically, linking sleep, dreams, the night sky, angels, and the silence of the city.

This program centres Der Abend by Richard Strauss, combining it with multi-voice arrangements by Clytus Gottwald of further Romantic German Lieder, and two contemporary works.  The pieces connect thematically and poetically, linking sleep, dreams, the night sky, angels, and the silence of the city.

PROGRAM:

Eric Whitacre     Sleep

Richard Wagner           Träume

Robert Schumann           Mondnacht

                                        An die Sterne

Felix Mendelssohn          Denn er hat einen Engeln

Alice Chance                  Holy Dreaming                                 

Richard Strauss                Der Abend

Alma Mahler                    Laue Sommernacht

                                         Die stille Stadt

Gustav Mahler                 Urlicht

Conductor: Monica Buckland

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