Irwin Gage . jonge liedduo's - GEANNULEERD!

The German baritone Michael Nagy and the pianist Juliane Ruf have been attending Irwin Gage's lieder class at the Saarbrücken Musikhochschule since October 2003. In April 2004, they won first prize at the international competition for lieder duos at the Hugo-Wolf-Akademie in Stuttgart. For their recital at deSingel, they have brought together songs on the same theme, under the title 'An die geliebte Ferne'. The starting point was Beethoven's cycle 'An die ferne Geliebte' from 1815-1816, settings of poems by Jeitteles, which sing of the typical romantic ideal of the unattainable ideal beloved. The 'Songs of Travel', composed by Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958), embroider on another, related romantic motif: that of the 'Wanderer'. The romantic soul sets forth into the world in search of happiness, with the motto 'where I am not, there is happiness'. In both cycles, the protagonists find a faithful companion in nature: on the one hand, they draw strength from its overwhelming beauty; on the other, nature acts as a mirror of the soul. With Beethoven, the unhappy lover sings to his beloved from a hilltop, curses the mountains and valleys that keep them apart, and envies the wind and the clouds that go near her. Vaughan Williams's 'Vagabond' reminisces about his lost youth and love on his wanderings amidst nature. PLEASE NOTE! This concert has been cancelled.