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Decade by Decade - 100 Years of German Song

Decade by Decade - 100 Years of German Song

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Summary

Iain Burnside discusses this season’s Decade by Decade project with Malcolm Martineau.

This new series, overseen by Malcolm Martineau and Dr Susan Youens, featuring singers chosen by Malcolm Martineau together with John Gilhooly, explores the rich repertoire of German song, decade by decade, spanning from 1810 until 1910, thereby overlapping with the Hall’s first decade.

Decade by Decade - 100 Years of German Song evokes the glories of Wigmore Hall’s past – which has brought performances by artists such as Peter Pears, Alfred Deller, Elly Ameling, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf and Brigitte Fassbaender – in featuring the leading recitalists of today, among them Diana Damrau, Susan Graham, Angelika Kirchschlager and Christopher Maltman.

Related Concerts

• View all Decade by Decade concerts

Music Clips

All music clips are taken from the Nash Ensemble recordings on Wigmore Hall Live:

1. Franz Schubert ‘An Silvia’ with Simon Keenlyside & Malcolm Martineau, from WHLive0031
2. Adolf Jensen ‘Leis' rudern hier, mein Gondolier’, Op. 50 No. 4 with Anthony Rolfe Johnson & Graham Johnson from Souvenirs de Venise with kind permission of Hyperion Records
3. Carl Loewe ‘Erlkönig’, Op. 1 No. 3 ‘Wer reitet so spät durch Nacht und Wind?’ with Gerald Finley & Graham Johnson from Songs by Schubert's contemporaries with kind permission of Hyperion Records
4. Fanny Mendelssohn Twelve Songs Op. 9 No. 6 ‘Die Mainacht’ with Susan Gritton & Eugene Asti from Fanny Mendelssohn: Songswith kind permission of Hyperion Records
5. Franz Schubert ‘Das Heimweh’ D. 456 with Peter Schreier & Graham Johnson from Schubert: The Complete Songs with kind permission of Hyperion Records
6. Peter Cornelius Brautlieder I - 'Ein Myrtenreis' with Andrew Willis from Visions Interieures with kind permission of Bridge Records, Inc 

Credits

• Presented by Iain Burnside
• Co-produced by Iain Burnside and Helen Granger
• Edited by Darius Weinberg