Four Last Songs

Masabane Cecilia Rangwanasha (soprano)

Julius Drake (piano)

"There is nothing like them in music for the sheer intensity of their concentrated, gentle heartache. It is music so bewitchingly sensuous, so achingly nostalgic...as to defy description." (The LA Phil on Richard Strauss' Four Last Songs.)

Tonight's performance of these songs of farewell (– to life, to art, to a vanished world) is dedicated to the memory of James Flynn KC, a brilliant man and a generous supporter of music in the Temple and beyond. 

Sponsored by Brick Court Chambers

 

Programme

Gustav Mahler:Three Rückert Lieder
Blicke mir
Liebst Du um Schönheit
Um Mitternacht

Richard Strauss: Four Last Songs
Frühling
September
Beim Schlafengehen
Im Abendrot

Three South African Songs
Isithandwa Sam. Arr Haubrich
Mali die Slaaf se Lied. Marais
Heimwee Marais

Songs from the American Songbook
Leonard Bernstein: I feel pretty (from West Side Story)
George & Ira Gershwin: Summertime (from Porgy and Bess)
Jerome Kern: Can’t help lovin dat man
lan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe: I could have danced all night

Spirituals
Amazing Grace
Nobody knows the Trouble I’ve seen
Steal Away
Ride up in the chariot