New Music Lied & Literature Recitals Jewish Themes Concert Repertoire

Sappho
The "Tenth Muse" of ancient Greece, set to the opulent, sensual music of Granville Bantock (1906), accompanied by harp and flute. Concertant or staged as an Opera with readings by women authors from Sappho to Virgiinia Woolf and Sybille Berg.
This program was commissioned by the Sappho Garden of the Arts, Skala Eressos, Lesbos, with corporate sponsoring from SkyTravel24

Heinrich Heine: Prose, Poems and Songs
Set by Brahms, Hensel, Liszt, Mahler-Werfel, Mendelssohn, Meyerbeer, Pfitzner, Schubert, Schumann, Strauß & Wieck.
This program was commissioned by the “Living Museum for German-Jewish History” with support from the Institute Francaise in Mainz for the Heine Bicentenial.

The Little Mermaid
Andersen’s fairytale told through the music of Dvorak, Handel, Lortzing, Monteverdi, Schumann and Tschaikowsky. A piece of chamber music-theater for children from 7-97.
This program was commissioned by the “Gothic House”, Bad Homburg

Goethe’s Girls:
Gretchen, Suleika & Mignon. Songs and Arias by Gounod, Mendelssohn, Rachmaninov, Schubert & Verdi. Texts by J.W.v.Goethe.
This programm received funding from the Ministry of Culture of the State of Rheinland-Palantine.

The Youth's Magic Horn
Letters, diary entries and stories by Bettina & Clemens von Brentano, Achim von Armin. Songs by Gustav Mahler.
This program premiered at the Brentano Haus.