X Marks the Spot - Selections from IX. Tell Me The Truth About Love (2024)

Описание: IX. Tell Me The Truth About Love (2024)IX. Tell Me The Truth About Love (2024)

This program was an exploration of some of the moods and phases of Love. Love is the root of the word “amateur” - a description of our status as musicians and of the motive force behind performing the music that we present– both the love of the composers and the need to share it with an audience.

Performed at this recital:
Benjamin Britten - “Tell Me the Truth About Love”, text by W.H. Auden
Vincenzo Bellini - “L’Abbandono”
Sergei Rachmaninoff – Prelude Op. 23 No. 4

Text translation:
Vincenzo Bellini - “L’Abbandono”
Lonely breeze, why do you sigh?
Sighs are for me alone, grieving and unhappy,
I call on Daphnis who does not listen
to my unbearable torment!

The sweet violet, the rose and the jasmine
languish in vain; I am far from the one I adore.
I have no relief unless she comes to console me
with her beautiful blue-eyed gaze

Industrious bee, who always flits
from flower to flower - listen:
If you find her, wherever she is,
Tell her to return to the one who adores her,
Just as you return to the bosom of the roses
At the first light of dawn!

Full program performed at the 2024 recital:

The Question
1. B. Britten – “Tell Me the Truth About Love”, text by W.H. Auden

Part 1: Love Awakening
2. R. Schumann – “Im Wunderschönen Monat Mai | It was in Wondrous Month of May”, Op. 48 No. 1
3. R. Hahn – “A Chloris | To Chloris”
4. A. Tcherepnin – Reverie Op 24 No 1
5. P. Tchaikovsky – “Средь Шумного Бала | Amidst a Clamorous Ball”, Op. 38 No.3
6. A. Scriabin - Valse Op. 1
7. A. Rubinstein – “Ночь | Night” Op. 44 No. 1
8. R. Schumann – “Fruhligsnacht |Spring Night”, Op. 39 No. 12

Part 2: Love Thwarted
9. S. Banevich – “Песня фонарщика | Lamplighter’s Aria” from “The Story of Kai and Gerda”
10. A. Scarlatti – “O, Cessate di Piagarmi | O, Cease Tormenting Me” from “Pompeo”
11. F. Chopin - Nocturne Op. 48 No. 1
12. S. Rachmaninoff – “О нет, Молю, Не Уходи | Oh No, I Beg you, Do Not Leave me”, Op. 4 No. 1
13. S. Rachmaninoff – Prelude Op. 23 No. 7
14. V. Bellini – “L’Abbandono | The Abandoned”
15. A. Scriabin - Etude Op. 8 No. 12

Part 3: Love Efflorescent
16. G. Faure – “Chanson D’Amour | Song of Love”
17. J. Massenet – “Nuit D’Espagne | Spanish Night”
18. C. Debussy – “Nuit D’Etoile | Starry Night”
19. F. Chopin – Etude Op. 25 No. 1
20. F. von Flotow – “M’Appari Tutto Amor| She appeared, full of love” from “Martha”
21. S. Rachmaninoff – Variation No. 18 from “Rhapsody on a theme by Paganini”, Op. 43

Part 4: Love Sublime
22. F. Schubert – “Du Bist Die Ruh / You are my Peace”
23. A. Scriabin – Prelude for the left hand Op. 9 No. 1
24. F. Chopin – Nocturne Op. 27 No.
25. C. W. Gluck – “O Del Mio Dolce Ardor / Oh, My Sweet Passion” from “Paride ed Elena”
26. S. Rachmaninoff Prelude Op. 23 No. 4
27. R. Schumann – “Widmung / Dedication” Op. 25 No. 1

The Answer
28. L. van Beethoven – Conclusion of “An Die Ferne Gelibte / To a Distant Beloved”, Op. 98