"Les Annees Folles" Album Launch by Simon Wallfisch & Edward Rushton at Queen's Gate Terrace, London on Monday 20th June 2016

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"Les Annees Folles" Album Launch by Simon Wallfisch & Edward Rushton

Add to my Calendar 20-06-2016 19:00 20-06-2016 21:00 36 "Les Annees Folles" Album Launch by Simon Wallfisch & Edward Rushton This concert marks the launch of their exciting new album of French Songs focussing on Caplet, Ravel, Milhaud and Honegger, released on Nimbus Records on the 3rd June. The concert will also include works to feature on their next album, focussing on Composers living in middle Europe in the first half of the 20th Century whose lives were changed moderately, drastically or cut tragically short by the rise of Naziism, including Viktor Ullman, Egon Wellesz, Gottfried von Einem and Richard Strauss, all of whom are united in their settings translations of exotic and foreign poetry, including Songs of the Orient, Chinese Songs and Hafis Settings.     Queen's Gate Terrace, London DD/MM/YYYY

Details

Queen's Gate Terrace
Queen's Gate Terrace
Kensington
London
SW7 5PN
England

Monday 20th June 2016
7:00 PM

Programme

André Caplet – Nuit d'automne
Richard Strauss – Allerseelen
Claude Debussy – Beau Soir, L.84
André Caplet – 3 Fables de Jean de la Fontaine
André Caplet – La croix douloureuse
André Caplet – Quand reverrai-je, hélas!

Performers

Simon Wallfisch – baritone
Edward Rushton – piano

Programme Note

This concert marks the launch of their exciting new album of French Songs focussing on Caplet, Ravel, Milhaud and Honegger, released on Nimbus Records on the 3rd June. The concert will also include works to feature on their next album, focussing on Composers living in middle Europe in the first half of the 20th Century whose lives were changed moderately, drastically or cut tragically short by the rise of Naziism, including Viktor Ullman, Egon Wellesz, Gottfried von Einem and Richard Strauss, all of whom are united in their settings translations of exotic and foreign poetry, including Songs of the Orient, Chinese Songs and Hafis Settings.

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