Stella Motina / Vera Bogdanchikova

• Opera

This evening tells of love with song and piano: passionate and sublime, glowing and ghostly, like the moonlight, like the elves... Love that ennobles and love that destroys. The tragic fate of the geisha, told in »Five Japanese Poems« by Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov, is heard in the concert, as are the sorrows and joys in Antonín Dvoák’s »Gypsy Songs«. The melancholy of love in Gabriel Fauré’s romances can be experienced and Tchaikovsky sets the passionate Tatyana, who writes a love letter to her hero, to music. All these stories, packaged in music and words, leave no one untouched and fill the evening with a romantic mood.

PERFORMERS

Stella Motina soprano

Vera Bogdanchikova piano

PROGRAM

Michail Ippolitov-Ivanov
Fünf japanische Gesänge für Sopran und Klavier op. 60

Antonín Dvoák
Cigánské Melodie op. 55

Gabriel Fauré
Après un rêve op. 7/1

Gabriel Fauré
Chanson d’amour

Gabriel Fauré
Clair de lune op. 46/2

Gabriel Fauré
Mandoline

Gabriel Fauré
Fleur jetée op. 39/2

Piotr I. Tschaikowsky
Und sei’s mein Untergang »Brief-Szene«