In the organizer's words:
Time of ignorance, time of love
The German song originated in Vienna, in Hamburg, in Leipzig - and lives today in Hong Kong, in China and everywhere else where people wear it with seriousness and curiosity. This concert tells the story.
The program moves between departure and stillness, between the familiar, which eludes us, and the foreign, which gradually becomes our own. What it means to have no home in Schumann's woods and still sing there - that is the silent question posed by this evening. 🌙
The tenor Jan Petryka, who trained in Vienna and is firmly rooted in the Austrian concert scene, brings the song home, as it were - together with two musicians from Asia who have brought it with them from another world. Petryka completed his studies in "Lied and Oratorio" at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna with distinction and is known from the Salzburg Festival to the Oxford Lieder Festival as one of the most distinguished lieder singers of his generation - Bachtrack described his tenor as "perfectly focused and guided, bright and crystal clear." 🎤
Xiaohui Li grew up in China and obtained her artistic diploma at the Hamburg Conservatory - in the heart of the city where the German Lied has had a special home since Brahms and Groth. Xinmin Wanbao praised her as a soprano with "remarkable precision and artistic sovereignty." Hong Kong-born KaJeng Wong is one of the most sought-after pianists in Asia - Martha Argerich called him "a special pianist", Claude Frank the most talented musician of his generation. As a soloist, he performs two impromptus by Schubert, pieces in which language falls silent and sound alone tells the story. 🎹
Three performers, three stories of origin, a joint program - and an evening that shows that great music is not created where you grew up, but where you arrive.
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🎼 Program
ROBERT SCHUMANN
Liederkreis, Op. 39
1. in the foreign land
2. intermezzo
3. forest conversation
4. moonlit night
Song Album for the Youth, Op. 79
5. it's him
6. gypsy song no. 2
Six Songs, Op. 89
7 Röselein, Röselein!
Myrtles, Op. 25
8 You are like a flower
9. from the Hebrew Songs
Songs and chants from Wilhelm Meister, Op. 98a
10. do not sing in mournful tones
11 Heiss' mich nicht reden
Five songs and chants, Op. 127
12. singer's consolation
Four duets, Op. 34
13. under the window
- Intermission -
FRANZ SCHUBERT
14. winter evening D 938
15. Ganymede D 544
16. night and dreams D 827
17. night piece D 672
18. light and love D 352
Four Impromptus, Op. 142 D 935
19. no. 3 Theme and five variations
20 No. 4 Allegro scherzando
CLAUDE DEBUSSY
Quatre Mélodies de Jeunesse
21 Apparition
22nd Green
FRANZ LISZT
23 Enfant, si j'étais roi, S 283
24. oh! quand je dors, S 282
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🎟️ Tickets & discounts
Students and young visitors up to the age of 35 receive a 20% discount with the code LIEDER20. Children up to 12 years pay 30% less with the code TRAUM30.
A valid photo ID must be shown on admission.
Accompanying persons of concertgoers with disabilities receive freeadmission - the accompanying ticket does not have to be booked separately. When booking a wheelchair-accessible seat, the companion seat is already included.
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Please note that tickets that have already been purchased cannot be returned.
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