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Schubert and Britten | Glenn Gould Studio, Toronto
Schubert and Britten | Glenn Gould Studio, Toronto
Songs and duets by Schubert and Britten
date: May 8, 1997
Our large-scale celebration of the 200th birthday of Franz Schubert (see our concerts in January and February of this year) was succeeded, later in the season, by two concerts of music by two composers who fervently admired, even loved him: Brahms and Britten. This instalment included a sequence of Schubert songs divided between our two singers and including several which we specifically know were favourites of Britten and of his recital partner, Peter Pears, such as “Nachtstück”, “Im Frühling” and “Der blinde Knabe”. The second half was dominated by a performance of Britten’s “Winter Words”, a cycle which must have owed its genesis, in large part, to the composer’s deep love and understanding of Schubert’s Winterreise.
| Song | Artist | Composer | Poet |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mignon: Kennst du das Land? D321 | Monoyios, Ann, soprano; Ubukata, Bruce, piano | Schubert, Franz | Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von |
| Mignon: Heiss mich nicht reden, D877/2 | Monoyios, Ann, soprano; Ubukata, Bruce, piano | Schubert, Franz | Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von |
| Mignon: Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt, D877/4 | Monoyios, Ann, soprano; Ubukata, Bruce, piano | Schubert, Franz | Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von |
| Mignon und der Harfner, D877/1 | Monoyios, Ann, soprano; Butterfield, Benjamin, tenor; Ubukata, Bruce, piano | Schubert, Franz | Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von |
| Nachtstück, D672 | Butterfield, Benjamin, tenor; Ralls, Stephen, piano | Schubert, Franz | Mayrhofer, Johann |
| Im Frühling, D882 | Butterfield, Benjamin, tenor; Ralls, Stephen, piano | Schubert, Franz | Schulze, Ernst |
| Das Lied im Grünen, D917 | Butterfield, Benjamin, tenor; Ralls, Stephen, piano | Schubert, Franz | Reil, Friedrich |
| Hark, hark! the lark, D889 | Monoyios, Ann, soprano; Ubukata, Bruce, piano | Schubert, Franz | Shakespeare, William |
| Who is Sylvia? D891 | Butterfield, Benjamin, tenor; Ralls, Stephen, piano | Schubert, Franz | Shakespeare, William |
| Der blinde Knabe, D833 | Butterfield, Benjamin, tenor; Ralls, Stephen, piano | Schubert, Franz | Cibber, Colley, trans. Craigher, Jacob Nikolaus |
| Lied der Anna Lyle, D830 | Monoyios, Ann, soprano; Ubukata, Bruce, piano | Schubert, Franz | Scott, Sir Walter, trans. anon. |
| Trinklied, D888 | Monoyios, Ann, soprano; Butterfield, Benjamin, tenor; Ralls, Stephen, piano | Schubert, Franz | Shakespeare, William, trans. Bauernfeld, Eduard von / Mayrhofer, Ferdinand |
| At Day-Close in November, Op.52/1 (Winter Words) | Butterfield, Benjamin, tenor; Ralls, Stephen, piano | Britten, Benjamin | Hardy, Thomas |
| Midnight on the Great Western, Op.52/2 (Winter Words) | Butterfield, Benjamin, tenor; Ralls, Stephen, piano | Britten, Benjamin | Hardy, Thomas |
| Wagtail and Baby (A Satire), Op.52/3 (Winter Words) | Butterfield, Benjamin, tenor; Ralls, Stephen, piano | Britten, Benjamin | Hardy, Thomas |
| The Little Old Table, Op.52/4 (Winter Words) | Butterfield, Benjamin, tenor; Ralls, Stephen, piano | Britten, Benjamin | Hardy, Thomas |
| The Choirmaster’s Burial (or The Tenor Man’s Story), Op.52/5 (Winter Words) | Butterfield, Benjamin, tenor; Ralls, Stephen, piano | Britten, Benjamin | Hardy, Thomas |
| Proud Songsters, Op.52/6 (Winter Words) | Butterfield, Benjamin, tenor; Ralls, Stephen, piano | Britten, Benjamin | Hardy, Thomas |
| At the Railway Station, Upway (or The Convict and Boy with the Violin), Op.52/7 (Winter Words) | Butterfield, Benjamin, tenor; Ralls, Stephen, piano | Britten, Benjamin | Hardy, Thomas |
| Before Life and After, Op.52/8 (Winter Words) | Butterfield, Benjamin, tenor; Ralls, Stephen, piano | Britten, Benjamin | Hardy, Thomas |
| Afton Water, Op.92/5 (A Birthday Hansel) | Monoyios, Ann, soprano; Ubukata, Bruce, piano | Britten, Benjamin | Burns, Robert |
| The trees they grow so high | Monoyios, Ann, soprano; Ubukata, Bruce, piano | Somerset folksong, arr. Britten, Benjamin | anon. |
| The Last Rose of Summer | Monoyios, Ann, soprano; Ubukata, Bruce, piano | Irish folksong, arr. Britten, Benjamin | Moore, Thomas |
| Come you not from Newcastle? | Monoyios, Ann, soprano; Ubukata, Bruce, piano | English folksong, arr. Britten, Benjamin | anon. |
| Underneath the abject willow (Two Ballads) | Monoyios, Ann, soprano; Butterfield, Benjamin, tenor; Ubukata, Bruce, piano | Britten, Benjamin | Auden, Wystan Hugh |
| Licht und Liebe, D352 – ENCORE | Monoyios, Ann, soprano; Butterfield, Benjamin, tenor; Ubukata, Bruce, piano | Schubert, Franz | Collin, Matthäus von |