Name: Lunchtime Concert Series
Start: 2024-03-04T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2024-03-04T00:00:00.000Z
Location: St John's Smith Square

Organization

Admin

St John's Smith Square

Pianist

Harry Rylance

Piano

Baritone

Bass-baritone

Michael Ronan

Bass-Bariton

Bass

Lunchtime Concert Series

London

United Kingdom

Concert

Four Serious Songs

Isolde's Liebestod (arr. Liszt)

Songs and Dances of Death

Alejandro Alberto Giess Sarmiento

Approved

Join bass-baritone Michael Ronan and pianist Harry Rylance, both Musicians’ Company award winners and graduates of the Royal Academy of Music, for a programme that traverses the landscapes of death and existence. Brahms’ Four Serious Songs, written shortly before the composer’s death, is a meditation on mortality and sets the stage for introspection - the texts are taken from the Luther Bible, despite Brahms being an atheist. Wagner/Liszt’s Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde follows with its transcendent expression of love’s ultimate sacrifice. Concluding the journey, Mussorgsky’s Songs and Dances of Death offers a haunting expression of mortality through vivid narratives – each song telling a story with Death being personified and appearing for the inevitable dance with destiny.  

Michael Ronan
BASS-BARITONE
Harry Rylance
PIANO

English

Etenduse krediiti (Näitlejad ja meeskond )

Osades

Instrumentatsioon