Soprano Barbara Hannigan is back with her long-time collaborator, the Dutch pianist and great interpreter of twentieth-century music Reinbert de Leeuw, for a recital exploring the roots of modern music, with the composers who left their mark on the turn of the twentieth century:
Hugo Wolf (Mignon Lieder),
Arnold Schoenberg (Vier Lieder Op.2),
Anton Webern (Fünf Lieder nach Gedichten von R. Dehmel),
Alexander Zemlinsky (selected lieder),
Alma Mahler (Die stille Nacht etc.) and
Alban Berg (Sieben frühe Lieder).
From what has been called the Second Viennese School, an incredible mix of musicians, painters, writers and other artists frequenting salons and cafés, a completely new musical language was born.
Barbara Hannigan is especially fond of this repertory and has long championed it.
Here is music from this recording:
