Performance Santa Fe is delighted to present New Mexico’s diva, Susan Graham in a very special recital.
Ms. Graham and pianist Malcolm Martineau will present an evening performance centered around and serving as a sort of deconstruction of Schumann’s iconic song cycle Frauenliebe und Leben (A Woman’s Love and Life). It is an incredibly varied program musically, dramatically, and stylistically, with the Schumann songs serving as the impetus and inspiration for all of the evening’s pieces. Each numbered set contains the corresponding song from Frauenliebe und Leben. The sets of the first half will begin with the corresponding Schumann piece; each set of the second half will end with the Schumann. In this way, the concert will commence with the first lied of Frauenliebe und Leben and conclude with the final song, while taking the audience on a journey that explores each piece individually and the themes of the song cycle as a whole.
Join Performance Santa Fe and Susan Graham for this moving tribute to Schumann and the cycle of love.
“Graham’s mezzo-soprano is a voice without regrets,
healthy, rounded, ineffably musical, and eager for a challenge.”
— The New Yorker
Program
FRAUENLIEBE UND LEBEN: VARIATIONS
SUSAN GRAHAM, mezzo-soprano
MALCOLM MARTINEAU, piano
I
SCHUMANN: SEIT ICH IHN GESEHEN
GRIEG: Møte
STRAUSS: Seitdem dein Aug’ in meines schaute
II
SCHUMANN: ER, DER HERRLICHSTE VON ALLEN
DANKWORTH: Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
FAURÉ: Chanson d’amour
RANGSTRÖM: Melodi
III
SCHUMANN: ICH KANN’S NICHT FASSEN, NICHT GLAUBEN
GRIEG: Jeg elsker dig
FAURÉ: Au bord de l’eau
IV
SCHUMANN: DU RING AN MEINEM FINGER
MAHLER: Rheinlegendchen
TURINA: Los dos miedos
V
SCHUMANN: HELFT MIR, IHR SCHWESTERN
Mutter, Mutter, glaube nicht
Lass mich ihm am Busen hangen
RAVEL: Tout Gai!
INTERMISSION
VI
DUPARC: Phidylé
DEBUSSY: La Chevelure
SCHUMANN: SÜSSER FREUND, DU BLICKEST MICH VERWUNDERT AN
VII
TCHAIKOVSKY: Lullaby
POULENC: Le Carafon
STRAUSS: Wiegenliedchen
STRAUSS: AN MEINEM HERZEN, AN MEINER BRUST
VIII
BERLIOZ: Absence
GRANADOS: O muerte cruel
QUILTER: How Shall I your true love know?
SCHUMANN: NUN HAST DU MIR DEN ERSTEN SCHMERZ GETAN
- Susan Graham, mezzo-soprano in recital with pianist Malcolm Martineau
presented by Performance Santa Fe
- Thursday, March 12, 2015 at 6:30 PM
- Lensic Performing Arts Center, 211 W. San Francisco St., Santa Fe, NM
- Tickets: $27 – $100; order tickets through PerformanceSantaFe.org or TicketsSantaFe.org
Student, teacher, and group discounts available.
About Susan Graham: Biography
About Malcolm Martineau: Biography
High resolution images available: Here and Here
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- Press Release as PDF: Press Release PDF
- Press Release as Word Document: Press Release Word
Contact:
Performance Santa Fe office: 505.984.8759
Sandra Noë, Marketing Manager, sandra@performancesantafe.org
Janet Dewey, Executive Director, janet@performancesantafe.org, cell: 505.377.2971
For season and other information, please visit www.performancesantafe.org
Performance Santa Fe’s 78th season in 2014-15 is funded by the City of Santa Fe and the 1% Lodgers Tax; New Mexico Arts, a Division of the Office of Cultural Affairs; the McCune Charitable Foundation; the National Endowment for the Arts; and donors, patrons, and sponsors from New Mexico and across the United States.