Archived Event

Die schöne Müllerin
Roderick Williams baritone; Iain Burnside piano
Date
Mon 27 Nov 2017, 7.30pm
Duration
This concert will be approximately 1 hour and 15 minutes in duration, without an interval
Availability

Artists

  • Roderick Williamsbaritone
  • Iain Burnsidepiano

Programme

Overview

In the summer of 1823 Schubert discovered anew volume of verse by Wilhelm Müller and wasimmediately inspired to set its sequence of poemsas his first song cycle. Die schöne Müllerin recountsthe unhappy tale of a young apprentice’s love for amiller’s daughter. The work charts the tragic courseof his rejection, despair and suicide.

With grateful thanks to the Voices at Wigmore Circle

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