Artists
- Iestyn Daviescountertenor
- Oliver Wassharp
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Iestyn Davies
Image credit: © Pablo Strong
Wiener Abend – From Orpheus’s Lyre to the Romantic Soul: The Evolution of Art Song in Vienna
Iestyn Davies countertenor; Oliver Wass harp
- Date
- Thu 08 Oct 2026, 7.30pm
- Tickets
- £50 £43 £33 £27 £18
+£4 booking fee per transaction - Duration
This concert will be approximately 2 hours in duration, including an interval
- Availability
Programme
- Christoph Willibald Gluck1714-1787
- Orfeo ed Euridice Cantata(arranged by Iestyn Davies and Oliver Wass)
- Joseph Haydn1732-1809
- O Tuneful Voice HXXVIa/42
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart1756-1791
- Adagio in C K356
- Ludwig van Beethoven1770-1827
- Adelaide Op. 46
Interval
- Robert Schumann1810-1856
- Liederkreis Op. 39:
- Mondnacht
- Myrthen Op. 25:
- Der Nussbaum
- Nachtlied Op. 96 No. 1
- Paul Hindemith1895-1963
- Sonata for Harp:
- I. Massig schnell
- Franz Schubert1797-1828
- Im Frühling D882
- Die Forelle D550
- Sonata for Harp:
- II. Lebhaft
- An den Mond D193
- Seligkeit D433
- Sonata for Harp:
- III. Lied
- Johannes Brahms1833-1897
- O wüsst ich doch den Weg zurück Op. 63 No. 8
- Ständchen Op. 106 No. 1
Overview
Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice left an indelible impression on the musical life of Vienna following its world première at the imperial city’s Burgtheater in 1762. Iestyn Davies and Oliver Wass have created a dramatic cantata from the opera’s best-known music, preserving the original’s special eloquence and power. Their ‘Vienna Evening’ also includes songs by Haydn, who conducted a performance of Orfeo ed Euridice in the 1770s, and Adelaide, an impassioned expression of romantic love from Beethoven’s first years in Vienna.