Artists
- Florian Boeschbaritone
- Roger Vignolespiano
- Date
- Thu 29 Jan 2015, 7.30pm
- Duration
- The above concert will now begin with a short, spoken introduction by the artists. The concert will be approximately 90 minutes in duration, without an interval
- Availability
Programme
- Ernst Krenek1900-1991
- Reisebuch aus den österreichischen Alpen Op. 62:
- No. 1 Motive (Motiv)
- No. 2 Travel (Verkehr)
- No. 3 Monastery in the Alps (Kloster in den Alpen)
- No. 4 Weather (Wetter)
- No. 5 Sad Hour (Traurige Stunde)
- No. 6 Cemetary in a Mountain Village (Friedhof im Gebirgsdorf)
- No. 7 Day of Rain (Regentag)
- No. 8 Our Wine (Unser Wein)
- No. 9 Looking Back (Rückblick)
- No. 10 Up and Down (Auf und ab)
- No. 11 Alpland Dwellers, folkloristic potpourri (Alpenbewohner)
- No. 12 Politics (Politik)
- No. 13 Thunderstorm (Gewitter)
- No. 14 Nostalgia (Heimweh)
- No. 15 Hot Day at the Lake (Heisser Tag am See)
- No. 16 Small Town in the Southern Alps (Kleine Stadt in dem südlichen Alpen)
- No. 17 Outlook Toward the South (Ausblick nach Süden)
- No. 18 Decision (Entscheidung)
- No. 19 Homecoming (Heimkehr)
- No. 20 Epilogue (Epilog)
Overview
Ernst Krenek’s formative years coincided with the collapse of the Habsburg Empire, the rise of extreme political ideologies and the emergence of iconoclastic trends in art and music.
He absorbed the profusion of new musical styles and put many of them to thought-provoking effect in his Reisebuch aus den österreichischen Alpen, an entrancing song cycle that probes the existential uncertainties of the late 1920s.