Jenny Lind: Love and Lieder
With her 鈥渂eguiling tone and unfailing musicality鈥 (Gramophone, 2020), the renowned Swedish soprano makes her Isabel debut with Grammy-winning and world-renowned pianist Emanuel Ax.
Jenny Lind (1820-1887) was affectionately known as the 鈥淪wedish Nightingale鈥. Receiving a scholarship named in honour of Jenny Lind at the age of 24, Swedish soprano Camilla Tilling has long felt a connection to this legendary singer and in 2020, curated the concert to celebrate the 200th anniversary of her birth, with a specific focus on Lind鈥檚 passion for German Lieder. As Camilla writes, 鈥渢he composers on this program not only featured on Jenny鈥檚 famed US tour that was promoted by the showman, P.T. Barnum, but were linked to Jenny through musical collaboration and friendship. Indeed, the Schumanns were such dear friends鈥揓enny regularly performing works by Robert鈥攖hat she would on occasion join Clara Schumann (a most celebrated concert pianist and tourer at this time) on stage in order to bolster audience numbers at her concerts. Through the Schumanns, Jenny was introduced to both Chopin鈥搃t is rumoured she even gifted him a large sum to help him in his final years鈥攁nd Mendelssohn with whom Jenny had a supposedly turbulent romantic entanglement.鈥
Program
Felix Mendelssohn
Hexenlied Op 8. no 8
Die Liebende schreibt 86. no 3
Alln盲chtlich im Traum 86. no 4
Der Mond Op 86. no 5
Blumenstrauss Op. 47/5
Fr眉hlingslied Op. 47/3
Pagenlied ohne opuszahl
Auf Fl眉geln des Gesanges Op. 34/2
Frederich Chopin
Nocturne for solo piano
Mazurka for solo piano
Chopin-Viardot: Mazurka
Aime-Moi
-Intermission-
R. Schumann
Arabeske, Op. 8
Op. 98
Heiss mich nicht reden, heiss mich schweigen
Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt
So lasst mich scheinen
Singet nicht in Trauert枚nen
Op 79.
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惭补谤颈别苍飞眉谤尘肠丑别苍
Der Himmel hat eine Tr盲ne geweint Op.37. no 1
Der Nussbaum Op 25. No3
Fr眉hlingsNacht Op. 39 No 12
An den Sonnenschein Op 36. No 4
Photo of Camilla Tilling by Carin Ekblom. Photo of Emanuel Ax by Nigel Parry.