Celebrated faculty artists Frank Kelley, tenor, and Michael Lewin, piano, present Franz Schubert's beloved song cycle Die Schöne Mullerin, the story of a miller's unrequited love.
Program Information
Repertoire
FRANZ SCHUBERT (1797–1828): Die Schöne Müllerin, D.795Poems by Wilhelm Müller1. "Das Wandern" ("Wandering"), B♭ major2. "Wohin?" ("Where to?"), G major3. "Halt!" ("Stop!"), C major4. "Danksagung an den Bach" ("Thanksgiving to the Brook"), G major5. "Am Feierabend" ("Evening's Rest"), A minor6. "Der Neugierige" ("The Inquirer"), B major7. "Ungeduld" ("Impatience"), A major8. "Morgengruß" ("Morning Greeting"), C major9. "Des Müllers Blumen" ("The Miller's Flowers"), A major10. "Tränenregen" ("Rain of Tears"), A major11. "Mein!" ("Mine!"), D major12. "Pause" ("Interlude"), B♭ major13. "Mit dem grünen Lautenbande" ("With the Green Lute-Ribbon"), B♭ major14. "Der Jäger" ("The Hunter"), C minor15. "Eifersucht und Stolz" ("Jealousy and Pride"), G minor16. "Die liebe Farbe" ("The Beloved Color"), B minor17. "Die böse Farbe" ("The Hateful Color"), B major18. "Trockne Blumen" ("Withered Flowers"), E minor19. "Der Müller und der Bach" ("The Miller and the Brook"), G minor20. "Des Baches Wiegenlied" ("The Brook's Lullaby"), E major
About the Artists
Frank Kelley, voice, sings a wide variety of music throughout North America and Europe. He has performed many roles with the Boston Lyric Opera, Opera Boston, Florentine Opera, Opera Theater of St. Louis, and the San Francisco Opera Company, has appeared at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, the Theatre de la Monnaie in Brussels, the Frankfurt Opera, and l’Opera de Monte Carlo. In concert performances, Kelley has sung with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the National Symphony, the Dallas Symphony, the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, and the Orchestra of St. Luke’s. He has performed medieval and Renaissance music with Sequentia, the Boston Camerata, and the Waverly Consort, and he performs baroque music with the Handel and Haydn Society, Boston Baroque, Emmanuel Music, Music of the Baroque, and Aston Magna. Kelley has participated in the Blossom Festival, the Tanglewood Festival, Ravinia Festival, Marlboro Music Festival, Pepsico Summerfare, the Nakamichi Festival, the New England Bach Festival, Next Wave Festival, Wexford Festival Opera, and the Boston Early Music Festival. He has recorded for London, Decca, Erato, Harmonia Mundi France, Teldec, Telarc, Koch International, Deutsche Harmonia Mundi, Arabesque, and Northeastern. A resident of Boston, Kelley sings regularly with Emmanuel Music and serves on the music faculties of Harvard Memorial Church and Boston Conservatory at Berklee.
Michael Lewin, piano, is one of America’s foremost concert pianists, winning over audiences in 30 countries with playing of “majestic power and searing emotion” (the London Times). His career was launched with top prizes in the Franz Liszt International Competition, the American Pianists Association Award, and the William Kapell International Piano Competition. His recordings have won a Grammy Award and a Roundglass Music Award.He has appeared as orchestral soloist with the Netherlands Philharmonic, Cairo Symphony, China National Radio Orchestra, Bucharest Philharmonic, Youth Orchestra of the Americas, State Symphony of Greece, Moscow Chamber Orchestra, the Boston Pops, and the Phoenix, Indianapolis, Miami, North Carolina, West Virginia, Nevada, New Orleans, Colorado, Guadalajara, and Puerto Rico symphonies. Solo appearances include New York’s Lincoln Center, London’s Wigmore Hall, Boston’s Symphony Hall, Taiwan’s National Concert Hall, Hong Kong’s City Hall Theatre, Holland’s Muziekcentrum, Moscow’s Great Hall, the Athens Megaron, the National Gallery of Art, the Newport, Ravinia, and Spoleto festivals, and PBS Television. His extensive repertoire includes over 40 piano concertos, with particular interest in the music of Beethoven, Brahms, Chopin, Liszt, Debussy, and a host of American and Latin American composers.Lewin’s award-winning discography on Sono Luminus, Naxos, and Centaur includes a pair of acclaimed Debussy recordings entitled Beau Soir and Starry Night, the complete piano music of Charles T. Griffes and Scarlatti sonatas, Michael Lewin Plays Liszt, A Russian Piano Recital, Bamboula!—The Piano Music of Louis Moreau Gottschalk, Piano Phantoms, If I Were a Bird, and the four violin sonatas by William Bolcom with Irina Muresanu.Lewin is professor and head of piano at Boston Conservatory at Berklee and classical music director for Ethos Music in China. He gives master classes worldwide, directs the Boston Conservatory Piano Masters Series, and has taught many prize-winning and successful pianists. He is a Juilliard School graduate and a Steinway Artist.
About the Series
This performance is part of Boston Conservatory at Berklee’s
Artistry in Action series. The Artistry in Action series celebrates exceptional artists and initiatives that exemplify Boston Conservatory’s core values of excellence, innovation, and community engagement. Hosted by the Conservatory’s Music Division, Artistry in Action brings together the school’s prestigious and long-standing Piano Masters Series, String Masters Series, and Chamber Series with exciting new programming for winds, faculty recitals, and ensemble-in-residences. Learn more and view upcoming Artistry in Action events.
Ensemble
PIANO
Michael Lewin
VOICE
Frank Kelley
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