Forum Lied by Various, ut 27 dec 2022, Od (2022/2022), Theater Gütersloh, Gütersloh, Germany

Secret is the name of the song by Franz Schubert with which the program opens. It sets a poem to music that Johann Baptist Mayrhofer wrote and dedicated to his friend. The opening line Say an who teaches you songs tells a lot about the friendship between Schubert and Mayrhofer, who is 10 years his senior. The two lived together in a shared flat for three years. Schubert set 47 of his friend's poems to music, and eight of them will be heard. On the other hand there are the five Goethe settings by Johannes Brahms, there are no other solo songs on texts by the Weimar composer! If a viola is announced for a mezzo-soprano, the two songs op. 91 by Johannes Brahms are definitely on the program. And because Schubert left no composition for this instrumentation, he composed the wonderfully songlike Arpeggione Sonata, i.e. chamber music. And this is a first in the forum song!