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Artists
- Claron McFaddensoprano
- Alexander Melnikovpiano
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Claron McFadden
Image credit: © Erik de Jong
Archived Event
Berberian, Berio, Cage and more
Claron McFadden soprano; Alexander Melnikov piano
- Date
- Fri 28 Apr 2023, 7.30pm
- Tickets
- Archived Event
- Duration
- This concert will be approximately 2 hours in duration, including an interval
- Availability
Programme
- John Cage1912-1992
- Aria
- Sergey Prokofiev1891-1953
- 5 Melodies Op. 35
- Luciano Berio1925-2003
- Sequenza III
- Cathy Berberian1925-1983
- Stripsody
- Oliver Knussen1952-2018
- Whitman Settings Op. 25
Interval
- Alfred Schnittke1934-1998
- Improvisation and Fugue
- Erwin Schulhoff1894-1942
- Sonata Erotica
- George Crumb1929-2022
- Apparition: Elegiac Songs and Vocalises
Encore
- Oscar Peterson1925-2007
- Hymn to Freedom
- Claude Debussy1862-1918
- Beau soir
Overview
A vocal artist with an extraordinary range joins with a leading pianist for an original programme of 20th-century works, including several classics. In Erwin Schulhoff’s 1919 Sonata Erotica for solo female voice, ‘a soprano spends several minutes’, claims the volume Modernism and Music, edited by Daniel Albright, ‘faking a carefully notated orgasm’.
