The Vancouver Recital Society presents the return of the successful duo - tenor Ian Bostridge and pianist Wenwen Du, in Songs of World War I.
Date/Time: May 18 2016, 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm
Vancouver, Vancouver PlayhouseCost: $75.00
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After the success of their riveting performance of Schubert’s Winterreise on our 2014-15 Season, Ian Bostridge and Wenwen Du return to our stage to perform an artfully curated program of songs exploring the music and poetry of the Great War. The program ranges from songs by soldier composers George Butterworth and Ivor Gurney to Britten’s setting of poems about children in wartime.
“Bostridge sings as if from inside the music, as if he has found a way to produce pure, disembodied emotion.” — Los Angeles Times
SONGS FROM WORLD WAR 1 The Music and Poetry of the Great War
MAHLER: Three songs from Des Knaben Wunderhorn STEPHAN: Ich will dir singen ein Hohelied BUTTERWORTH: A Shropshire Lad WEILL: Four Walt Whitman Songs BRITTEN: Four songs from Who Are These Children?, Op. 84
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