Sophie Karthäuser soprano; Cédric Tiberghien piano

Performers

Sophie Karthäuser

soprano

Cédric Tiberghien

piano

Programme

Fauré

Cinq mélodies ‘de Venise‘

Mernier

• Dans l’interminable ennui de la plaine
• Cythère

Debussy

Ariettes oubliées

Foccroulle

• Le piano que baise une main frêle
• Ganymède
• De la douceur
• Dansons la gigue

Hahn

• From Chansons grises:
  • Tous deux
  • L’heure exquise
• Fêtes galantes

About this concert

Sophie Karthäuser, winner of the audience prize at the 2003 Wigmore Hall Song Competition, has cast her repertoire sights to target everything from early opera to contemporary song.

The Belgian soprano’s latest recital programme blends richly concentrated mélodies by Fauré, Debussy and Reynaldo Hahn with the music of Liège-born composer Bernard Foccroulle, director of the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, and his former student, Benoît Mernier.