Lieder and Song

Video: Nacht und Träume D.827 (Franz Schubert) arr. Cello & Piano Sarah Acres (Cello) & Albert Combrink (Piano)

2013-11-09T15:13:54+02:00

Nacht und Träume D.827 (Franz Schubert) arr. Cello & Piano
Sarah Acres (Cello) & Albert Combrink (Piano)

Published in 1825 as Op.43 No 2, D.827 was composed in the winter of 1822/1823. It is remarkable in Schubert’s “Night Song” ouevre, and it remains one of the pinnacles of his output. Notoriously difficult to perform and deceptive in its simplicity, it makes a perfect transition to the cello.

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Nacht und Träume D.827 (Franz Schubert)
Text by Matthäus [read more…]

Video: Nacht und Träume D.827 (Franz Schubert) arr. Cello & Piano Sarah Acres (Cello) & Albert Combrink (Piano)2013-11-09T15:13:54+02:00

Die Mainacht Op. 43 No. 2 (Johannes Brahms)

2013-09-02T20:25:50+02:00

Albert Combrink: Brahms Die Mainacht

“Die Mainacht” Op. 43 No. 2 (Johannes Brahms (1833 – 1897)), written 1866, published 1879, text by Ludwig Heinrich Christoph Hölty (1748-1776)

One of Brahms’ most beloved songs, this is one of the great, quintessential Romantic Period song-diary creations, an exquisitely crafted Nature-Nocturne. Brahms’s songs often use a modified strophic form, which seems to help Brahms contain both the forward-looking, personal element of his art, as well as remaining firmly rooted in the Classical Tradition; the technique leads to a form at once grounded in the solid formal [read more…]

Die Mainacht Op. 43 No. 2 (Johannes Brahms)2013-09-02T20:25:50+02:00

“Liebestreu” Op. 3 No. 1: (Johannes Brahms)

2013-08-31T13:52:35+02:00

Achenbach “Clearing Up” by one of the painters of the Düsseldorf School (with whom the poet of this song was associated,) Andreas Achenbach (1815-1910).

 

“Liebestreu”, op. 3 (Sechs Gesänge) no. 1 (1853) by Johannes Brahms (1833-1897). Dedicated to Bettina von Arnim

Text by Robert Reinick (1805 – 1852) , title unknown, from Lieder, in 2. Romanzen und Bilder, no. 26, published 1844

 

Johannes Brahms and Clara Schumann, photographed in 1853 Johannes Brahms and Clara Schumann, photographed in 1853

What a dashing young man Brahms was. When [read more…]

“Liebestreu” Op. 3 No. 1: (Johannes Brahms)2013-08-31T13:52:35+02:00

“O kühler Wald” (Johannes Brahms)

2013-08-30T22:07:22+02:00

Trees A Combrink

“O kühler Wald” Op.72 No.3, (Fünf Gesänge 1877)

(Music: Johannes Brahms (1833-1897). Original Key A Flat Major.  Text:  Clemens Maria Wenzeslaus von Brentano (1778-1842) , no title, 1802, published 1844.

The Composer
A product of Brahms in maturity, the Op.72 set of 5 songs appeared 6 months after the triumphant premiere. The 44-year-old composer was living comfortably off publishers’ royalties. He kept a comfortable flat in Vienna and spent holidays in Italy. In over 380 songs he created a vast body of work in the genre only surpassed by Schubert. He had a [read more…]

“O kühler Wald” (Johannes Brahms)2013-08-30T22:07:22+02:00

À Chloris (Reynaldo Hahn)

2013-07-01T21:33:53+02:00

À Chloris (1916): Reynaldo Hahn (1874-1947)

"As she talks, her lips breathe spring roses: I was Chloris, who am now called Flora" - from "Fasti", a six-book Latin poem written by the Roman poet Ovid and published in 8 AD. Detail from "Primavera" by Sandro Botticelli. Painted ca. 1482. “As she talks, her lips breathe spring roses: I was Chloris, who am now called Flora” – from “Fasti”, a six-book Latin poem written by the Roman poet Ovid and published in 8 AD. Detail from “Primavera” by Sandro Botticelli. Painted ca. [read more…]

À Chloris (Reynaldo Hahn)2013-07-01T21:33:53+02:00

Quand la nuit n’est pas étoilée (Reynaldo Hahn)

2013-07-01T18:32:19+02:00

Quand la nuit n’est pas étoilée (Reynaldo Hahn)

~~”The dark and abyss have a deep mystery, That no mortal has penetrated”  – Victor Hugo

Ivan Aivazovsky: "The Black Sea at Night" 1879 Ivan Aivazovsky: “The Black Sea at Night” 1879

 

Written in 1922, the year of the death of Hahn’s life-long friend and one time lover – the only lover he ever seems to have had – Marcel Proust, Quand la nuit n’est pas étoilée sets an expansive text by Victor Hugo. It sings of enlightenement and transfiguration; of the comfort of [read more…]
Quand la nuit n’est pas étoilée (Reynaldo Hahn)2013-07-01T18:32:19+02:00

Live Video: D’un Prison (Reynaldo Hahn) – Sarah Acres & Albert Combrink

2013-06-30T21:17:04+02:00

D’un Prison (Reynaldo Hahn) Sarah Acres (Cello), Albert Combrink (Piano)

Live Amateur Video recorded at the Casa Labia Cultural Center, Muizenberg, Cape Town, 13 June 2013


This version for Cello and Piano Arranged by Sarah Acres & Albert Combrink
Website: Sarah Acres – http://www.facebook.com/CellistInTheCity
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Twitter: @albertcombrink

Read more about the original programme here:
https://www.albertcombrink.com/2013/05/05/casa-labia-morning-concert-series-presents-linvitation-au-voyage-french-music-for-cello-and-piano-sarah-acres-albert-combrink/

Read more about the song here:
https://www.albertcombrink.com/2013/06/30/dun-prison-reynaldo-hahn/

Gustave Caillebotte, Jeune homme à la fenêtre (Young man at the window), c. 1875 Gustave Caillebotte, Jeune homme à la fenêtre (Young man at the window), c. [read more…]

Live Video: D’un Prison (Reynaldo Hahn) – Sarah Acres & Albert Combrink2013-06-30T21:17:04+02:00

D’un Prison (Reynaldo Hahn)

2013-06-30T21:12:16+02:00

D’un Prison (1892) (Reynaldo Hahn, 1874 – 1947) to poetry by  Paul Verlaine (1844 – 1896)

A disturbingly static song at first hearing, D’un Prison paints a picture of a man who has an epiphany. Neither the naked Archimedes’ “Eureka” nor Oprah’s “Aha” moment, this is the quiet inner slice of time of a man who looks up over the roofs of Paris, and realises – perhaps for the first time – how simple life actually is, and asks himself what it was all for. On what had he spent his youth?

“My God, My God, life is so simple and quiet”.

Venezuelan [read more…]

D’un Prison (Reynaldo Hahn)2013-06-30T21:12:16+02:00

Je te veux (Erik Satie)

2013-06-30T16:54:04+02:00

Je te veux (Music: Erik Satie (1897) / Text: Henry Pacory)

A figure that stands aloof and isolated from mainstream French Composers, Satie remains as enigmatic as ever. Undoubtedly a composer of great substance, he was nonetheless capable of writing strange and deliberately “meaningless” music. His rebelliousness makes him a very interesting figure. He claimed to despise the Impressionists with their fanciful nature-evocations, parodying them with titles of his own such as “Three pieces in the shape of a pear” and instructing musicians to play a certain passage “Like a nightingale with a toothache.” While hating conformism he nonetheless had deep respect and [read more…]

Je te veux (Erik Satie)2013-06-30T16:54:04+02:00

Henri Duparc: L’invitation au Voyage (c.1870)

2013-06-08T22:37:24+02:00

The insatiable thirst for everything which lies beyond, and which life reveals, is the most living proof of our immortality. (Charles Baudelaire)

Jacob Isaackszoon van Ruisdael (or Ruysdael) (c. 1628-1682): Bij Duurstede - These clouds, the boat and the ocean, conjure up the world of Duparc's great song. Jacob Isaackszoon van Ruisdael (or Ruysdael) (c. 1628-1682): Bij Duurstede – These clouds, the boat and the ocean, conjure up the world of Duparc’s great song.


Henri Duparc (1848-1933).

There are composers, and then there is Duparc. There is French song and then there is Duparc. [read more…]

Henri Duparc: L’invitation au Voyage (c.1870)2013-06-08T22:37:24+02:00

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