Research Song Concert
- 7.30pm
About this event:
- Category:
- Classical Music | Milton Court | Research | Vocal
- Event type:
- Free | In-person
- Admission:
- Free No tickets required
- Location:
- Milton Court Concert Hall
Event information
The Songs of Edouard van Cleeff
A collaboration between the Guildhall School and University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (mdw), led by Marc Verter.
This captivating programme brings to light the music of the uncovered French Jewish composer Edouard van Cleeff, whose works were banned by the Nazis. A rising star in France during the 1920s and 30s, van Cleeff was forced to go into hiding after the Nazi occupation, abandoning his musical career. His compositions disappeared from public memory after World War II - until now. Marc Verter has been researching and reviving his songs as part of an exciting collaboration between Guildhall School and the Exilarte Centre at Vienna University.
Alongside van Cleeff’s rediscovered music, this programme will also showcase compositions by his French contemporaries, as well as other composers who faced Nazi persecution, including Walter Arlen, Julius Bürger, Erich Korngold, Erich Zeisl and Hans Gal.
Free, no tickets required
Programme & Performers
Edouard van Cleeff (1889 – 1961)
Chanson d’automne (Paul Verlaine)
Je n’ai vécu qu’une heure (André Rastier)
Alexandre Allix tenor
Sooyeon Baik piano
Reynaldo Hahn (1874 – 1947)
‘Chanson d’automne’ from Chansons Grises (Paul Verlaine)
‘La Délaissée’ from 2ième recueil (Augustine-Malvina Souville Blanchecotte)
‘Le Printemps’ from Rondels (Théodore de Banville)
Maud Niklas soprano
Marc Verter piano
Edouard van Cleeff
Le Rondel de la Petite Église (André Rastier)
Maud Niklas soprano
Mark Zang piano
Barcarolle de Majorque (J. Wallis)
Alexandre Allix tenor
Sooyeon Baik piano
Tristesse (Gaston van Cleeff)
Maud Niklas soprano
Mark Zang piano
Henri Duparc (1848 – 1933)
L’Invitation au voyage (Charles Baudelaire)
Maud Niklas soprano
Marc Verter piano
Edouard van Cleeff
Passagère (Roberta Acton)
Maud Niklas soprano
Mark Zang piano
L’Echo de Grands Bois (Théodore Botrel)
Alexandre Allix tenor
Sooyeon Baik piano
Arthur Honegger (1892 – 1955)
Trois Chansons (René Morax):
Chanson des Sirènes
Berceuse de la Sirène
Chanson de la Poire
Maud Niklas soprano
Marc Verter piano
Edouard van Cleeff
Excerpts from Pancho, Act II (libretto by André Rastier):
Aria de Concita
Aria de Soleda
Maud Niklas soprano
Marc Verter piano
Edouard van Cleeff
Ils ont tué trois petites filles (Maurice Maeterlinck)
Maud Niklas soprano
Mark Zang piano
Hans Gál (1890 – 1987)
Abend auf dem Fluss (Hans Bethge, after a Chinese poem)
Drei Prinzessinnen (Hans Bethge, after a Chinese poem)
Josipa Bainac Hausknecht mezzo-soprano
Marc Verter piano
Walter Arlen (1920 – 2023)
From Five Songs of Love and Yearning (St John of the Cross):
I. O Living Flame of Love
II. Ah! Who Can Cure Me
Josipa Bainac Hausknecht mezzo-soprano
Marc Verter piano
Erich Zeisl (1905 – 1959)
Vor meinem Fenster (Arno Holz)
Es spinnt sich ein (Rudolf Paulsen)
Komm, süsser Tod (anonymous)
Josipa Bainac Hausknecht mezzo-soprano
Marc Verter piano
Wilhelm Grosz (1894 – 1939)
Red Maple Leaves
Josipa Bainac Hausknecht mezzo-soprano
Marc Verter piano
Venue information
Milton Court, based across the road from our Silk Street building, provides the School with world-class performance and training spaces, including a state of the art concert hall, a lyric theatre, a studio theatre and several major rehearsal rooms.
- Milton Court, 1 Milton Street, London, EC2Y 9BH
