Desire, despair, devotion. German Lieder has long been a home for the most startlingly human emotions.
Baritone Stephen Gadd and pianist Stephen Barlow trace an expressive arc from the tender wit of Hugo Wolf’s Italienisches Liederbuch, through the impressionistic melancholy of Alban Berg’s Sieben Frühe Lieder, to the raw spiritual drama of Frank Martin’s Sechs Monologe aus ‘Jedermann’.
This informal lunchtime recital includes brief reflections on the composers, the poetry, and the emotional terrain these works so powerfully explore.
