1/17/93 Belfast Music Society Celebrity Concerts

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LOVE IN THE AFT THE VOICE OF LOVE SUTY An evening of song with Sarah Walker and Malcolm Martineau YOUNG LOV YOUNG LOVE DAISRAM OMA VO Schubert Der Blumenbrief (1818, poem by Schreiber) do) Flowers will send my message to the fair maiden. The rose msorb bos slaws will tell of how I burn with love, the myrtle of my hopes, At mir qed and the marigold of my despair without her.any of the Das Rosenband (1815, poem by Klopstock) I found her lying in the spring sun and bound her with pink s bovoled ribbons, but still she slept on. I whispered to her and she sorti bottawoke. She looked at me and in that look our lives were eternally bound together. insect, Mozart An Chloë (1787, text by Jacobi) "B a mi sve A youth has just discovered the joy and pain of love in his beloved, Chloë. Brahms obt Och Modr, ich wel en Ding han (1894, from his German folksong settings) "O, Mother, I want something!" "What sort of thing, my love? Do you want a doll?" "No, mother, no! You're not a good mother if you don't know what your child would like!" "A ring?" "No!" "A dress?" "No!" "Well, would you like a man ?" - 1-

LOVE AND MARRIAGE 10 Schumann 0139 OV SITT Five songs from the cycle Myrthen, written as a wedding 13 present for Clara in 1840: s vespitst inloolsM Der Nussbaum (Mosen) nob A great walnut tree stands in front of the house. It is in full blossom and the flowers whisper gently of a maiden who sits and dreams of a husband-to-be, perhaps next year. vd so 2181) 150 Jemand (Robert Burns) My heart is troubled for 'somebody'. I lie awake and dream of 'somebody'. O Fates who smile on love, keep him safe, my 'somebody'. Zwei Lieder der Braut RA aid ni ovelle (a) Do not think, mother, that because I love him so much, I love you less. Lied der Suleika (Goethe) Suleika has received a love poem from her beloved Hatem who is far away, and rejoices in his confirmation of their love. bauod vilamala (b) Let me rest my head on his breast and do not ask me how it will end. It never will. Bobs tasw uor a lovelym -2-

LOVE IN THE AFTERNOON (2520 2500, Fauré Bizet (1891, from the Mélodies de Venise, op 58, poems by Verlaine) Boyol En Sourdine THE Green Here are fruits and flowers, leaves and branches, and here is my heart also which beats only for you. Let me lay my head in your lap and then let us rest for a while. consis Let us abandon ourselves to the peace and tranquillity of the shady trees and when evening comes we will listen to the song of the nightingale. ORA La Coccinelle (1868, setting of Hugo) QUEN She said, "Something is troubling me..." I looked and saw a ladybird on her snow-white neck. In trying to capture the insect, alas the kiss that was waiting also flew away! The ladybird said, "Creatures (bêtes) belong to God but foolishness (bêtises) belongs to Man..." Duparc Phidylé (1882, poem by de Lisle) In the scorching heat of the sun only the hum of the bees disturbs the noonday idyll. Phidylé rests too in this haven of peace. Sleep on, but when the sun goes down let your tenderest kiss reward my long wait. - 3-

LOVE IN A COLD CLIMATE Grieg Sibelius ben a geitiewew Med en Vandlilie (1876, from six Ibsen poems, op 25) See the waterlily I have brought you, Marie! Pin it to your breast. It will be at home there, for your breast is like the waves, peaceful on the surface, treacherous beneath! Til En (1894, from Elegies, op 59, words by Paulsen) Why do your eyes shine with tears? Is it to captivate me the more with their beauty? Or are these tears of a hopeless passion? Beloved, let me kiss them from your joyous glance. Three settings of poems by Runeberg: myin od Våren flyktar hastigt (1891, from op 13) Spring and summer go by so fast, autumn and winter crawl. Soon the springtime of youth will also be over. Enjoy your spring so that your autumn may contain only happy memories. ud bo of Den första kyssen (from op 37, composed between 1898 and 1902) "What does Heaven think when we give the first kiss to our beloved?" "Heaven shares your joy, only Death turns aside and weeps. " - 4-

#p asvi bra these bra am Ives LOVE IN THE NEW WORLD Mallory Ives Duke to Flickan kom ifrån sin älsklings möte (from op 37) A girl returns from a secret tryst with her lover and her mother asks, Gershwin "Why are your hands red?" "I've been picking roses." The next night the girl returns and her mother says, "Why are your lips red?" "I've been eating raspberries." Again the following night the mother asks, "Why are your cheeks pale?", tylenov "Make a grave for me, and carve on the cross that I had a faithless lover." In the Alley (1896, words by the composer) (Settings of words by Dorothy Parker) Indian Summer Unfortunate Coincidence Observation Romanzo di Central Park (1900, words by Hunt) Paris in New York Ages Ago The Lorelei (from Pardon my English, 1933) -5-

SARAH WALKER quia nie nkl momebirt od bas 19vol 13 miw tev 191ee a moil anunt big A Sarah Walker began her musical life as a violinist at the Royal College of Music and subsequently studied singing with Vera Rozsa, with whom she has built up a wide repertoire ranging from Bach to 20th century works by composers such as Berio, Boulez, Cage, Henze, Ligeti, Copeland and Ives. Miss Walker is much in demand on the concert platform worldwide, where she has worked with Ozawa, Davis, Mackerras, Solti, Norrington, Boulez, Rhozdestvensky, Masur, Harnoncourt and Rattle. She appears regularly with the major British Orchestras, and at the major British and European festivals. She was a memorable soloist at the Last Night of the Proms and sang under the late Leonard Bernstein in Beethoven's 9th Symphony in Berlin to celebrate the opening of the Berlin Wall (televised worldwide and recorded by Deutsche Grammophon). Sarah Walker has perhaps received the greatest critical acclaim for her recitals. Since the overwhelming success of her Wigmore Hall debut she has visited all the major European cities and Festivals, the USA, Australia and New Zealand and has made numerous recordings which reflect her vast recital repertoire. In recent seasons she has appeared in Der Rosenkavalier at the Metropolitan Opera under Kleiber, Peter Grimes in Geneva, as Mistress Quickly in Falstaff for Scottish Opera, in the world premiere of Buller's The Bacchae for English National Opera and at the Chatelet as Madame Larina in Eugene Onegin (also recorded for Philips Classics). Concerts have included the London Philharmonic Orchestra under Masur, the London Symphony Orchestra under Tilson Thomas and the Halle under Marriner and she took part in the EMI recording of Peter Grimes under Haitink. ALERT dedem nobin's mot) -6-

In addition to her busy concert, recital and recording career in the United Kingdom, Europe and North America, Miss Walker's future engagements include Filipyevna in Eugene Onegin for the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Mistress Quickly at the San Carlo in Lisbon and Mrs Sedley in Peter Grimes at the Monnaie, Brussels and at the Metropolitan Opera. Sarah Walker was made a CBE in the 1991 Queen's Birthday Honours. Balaw diagnos s MALCOLM MARTINEAU Edinburgh-born Malcolm Martineau read Music at St Catharine's College, Cambridge. In 1981 he went on to study at the Royal College of Music with Kendall Taylor, Geoffrey Parsons and Lyndon van der Pump, where he won all the internal accompanists's prizes, and currently studies with Joyce Rathbone. His subsequent awards include the Walter Gruener International Lieder Competition in 1984 (and he was consequently asked back to act as official accompanist in 1987). Malcolm accompanied Bryn Terfel when he won the lieder prize at the 1989 Cardiff Singer of the World Competition, Simon Keenlyside when he won the 1990 Elly Ameling Award and has played at various master-classes at the Britten-Pears School in Aldeburgh for Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Suzanne Danco, Ileana Cotrubas and Kurt Equiluz. Malcom has accompanied many of the world's leading singers including Dame Janet Baker, Sarah Walker, Della Jones, Marie McLaughlin, Laurence Dale, Tom Krause, Bryn Terfel, Lorna Anderson and Thomas Allen and among many noted instrumentalists has accompanied clarinettist Emma Johnson. He presented his own series at St Johns Smith Square of the complete songs of Debussy and Poulenc (recorded by BBC Radio 3). he has appeared at numerous Festivals throughout the United Kingdom and given many recitals for the BBC. -7-

Recent engagements have included recitals at the Aix-en-Provence Festival, the Edinburgh Festival, his debuts in North and South America and his debut at the Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon. Plans include further recitals at the Wigmore Hall and on the South Bank and in Paris, Belgium, Vienna, Germany and throughout the United Kingdom. Recent recording projects have included the complete Fauré songs with Sarah Walker, two recordings with flautist Jennifer Stinton, recital records with Emma Johnson, Della Jones, Bryn Terfel, Yvonne Kenny and Simon Keenlyside. ogollo.25silis) 12 epizul best neominst lisbns X diw sizuM lo sgoliool oible or no sri ile nove ci son scodile svol diw z9ibuiz yh Isisilto atos of ban 2951 To step2 bas mobgni Loli NEXT RECITAL 99 CHILINGIRIAN STRING QUARTET Saturday 5 February 1994 Elmwood Hall, 7.30 pm