Death and the Degenerate - A Free Lunchtime Concert
1st June
1.00pm
Free to attend
Baritone Aleksi Koponen and pianist Maya Soltan present Mussorgsky's Songs and Dances of Death and Shostakovich's Four Verses of Captain Lebyadkin
Partly as a response to the war that started last February, Koponen and Soltan, who often collaborate on Russian and German repertoire, have put together a programme of two song cycles not often performed in the UK.
Set List:
Модест Петрович Мусоргский: Песни и пляски смерти
Modest Mussorgsky: Songs and Dances of Death
Text by Arseny Golenishchev-Kutuzov 1875
1. Колыбельная - Lullaby
2. Серенада - Serenade
3. Трепак - Trepak
4. Полководец - Field Marshal
Дмитрий Дмитриевич Шостакович: Четыре стихотворения капитана Лебядкина
Dmitri Shostakovich: Four Verses of Captain Lebyadkin, op.146
Text based on Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Demons 1974
1. Любовь капитана Лебядкина - Captain Lebyadkin’s Love
2. Таракан - Cockroach
3. Бал в пользу гувернанток - A Ball for the Benefit of Governesses
4. Светлая личность - A Noble Character
Mussorgsky's Songs and Dances of Death and Shostakovich's final vocal cycle Four Verses of Captain Lebyadkin, which he based on a character from Dostoyevsky’s Demons, are written a hundred years apart. However, Mussorgsky’s artistic courage and Shostakovich’s refusal to be an accomplice of the regime of his time, are both appropriate examples of opposing hegemonies.
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