Concert PulseCHRISTIANE KARG, MALCOLM MARTINEAU & HELMUT MOOSHAMMER
Date & Time
Thu, Apr 3, 2025, 19:30Mignon, Ophelia, and Mary, Queen of Scots—these three towering figures of literature and history provide the inspiration for an evening of words and music created by Christiane Karg, Malcolm Martineau, and actor Helmut Mooshammer. In addition to Goethe settings by Beethoven, Schubert, Wolf, Duparc, and Josephine Lange and Ophelia songs by Brahms, Strauss, Chausson, and Wolfgang Rihm, the program also includes Robert Schumann’s Gedichte der Königin Maria Stuart, the composer’s final vocal cycle written in 1852.
Keywords: Vocal Music
Musicians
| Karg Christiane | Soprano |
| Martineau Malcolm | Piano |
| Mosshammer Helmut | Recitation |
Program
| Texts by Friedrich Schiller, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, William Shakespeare, Clemens Brentano, Novalis, and Heinrich Heine | |
| Ludwig van Beethoven | Mignon Op. 75/1 "Kennst du das Land" |
| Henri Duparc | Romance de Mignon Op. 2/3 |
| Josephine Lang | Mignons Klage Op. 10/2 |
| Franz Schubert | Lied der Mignon "So lasst mich scheinen" D 877/3 |
| Hugo Wolf | Mignon I "Heiß’ mich nicht reden" (Goethe Songs No. 5) |
| Robert Schumann | Herzeleid Op. 107/1 |
| Wolfgang Rihm | Tomorrow Is Saint Valentine’s Day (from Ophelia Sings) |
| Ernest Chausson | Chanson d’Ophélie "Il est mort" Op. 28/4 |
| Camille Saint-Saëns | La Mort d'Ophélie |
| Roger Quilter | How Should I Your True Love Know Op. 30/3 |
| Richard Strauss | Sie trugen ihn auf der Bahre bloß Op. 67/3 |
| Johannes Brahms | Wie erkenn ich dein Treulieb (from Ophelia Songs WoO 22) |
| Johannes Brahms | Sein Leichenhemd weiß (from Ophelia Songs WoO 22) |
| Robert Schumann | Gedichte der Königin Maria Stuart Op. 135 |
| Joachim Raff | Maria Stuart Op. 172 |
| Horatio Parker | Two Songs from Tennyson’s "Queen Mary" |