The Hearn Recital Room
Took place on Sat 22 Apr 2023, 7.30pm with pre-concert talk at 7pm

Music

Blackheath Presents: Stephan Loges & Jocelyn Freeman

£15
60 minutes
The Hearn Recital Room
Took place on Sat 22 Apr 2023, 7.30pm with pre-concert talk at 7pm

Leading German bass-baritone Stephan Loges launches SongEasel’s Quintessential Song series in collaboration with acclaimed pianist and curator Jocelyn Freeman.

Their programme presents some supreme items from the song genre by Johannes Brahms alongside works by five composers who inspired or were inspired by this Lieder giant: Robert and Clara Schumann, Marie von Kehler, and Ethel Smyth.

Brahms Folksongs
Erlaube mir, feins Mädchen WoO 33, 2
Gang zur Liebsten op.14,6  
Ständchen op.14,7  
Da unten im Tale  WoO 33, 6
In stiller Nacht WoO 33, 42
Clara Schumann Der Wanderer in der Sägemühle (Kerner)
Kehler Mein Herz ist wie die dunkle Nacht op.5,2 (Geibel)
Smyth Es wandelt was wir schauen op.3,4 (Eichendorff) & Nachtreiter op.4,4 (Groth)
Clara Schumann Die gute Nacht (Rückert)
Brahms Fünf Lieder op.105
Wie Melodien zieht es mir
Immer leiser wird mein Schlummer
Klage
Auf dem Kirchhofe
Verrat
Bach / Myra Hess Jesu Joy of man’s desiring
Robert Schumann
Stirb’ Lieb und Freud op.35,2 (Kerner)
Einsamkeit op.90,5 (Lenau)
Requiem op.90,7 (Altkatholisches Gedicht)
Brahms Vier ernste Gesänge op.121  

There will be a pre-concert talk at 7pm with Richard Stokes,  Royal Academy of Music’s Professor of Lieder.

Part of SongEasel’s Quintessential song series celebrating their fifth birthday. The series pays homage to both sacred and secular origins of the song genre, and features works for not one, but five accompanists (piano plus string quartet), in a range of recitals across South East London April-July 2023.