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Details: Published: 09 September 2015

Song of the week: Edone (F. Schubert) - C. Prégardien, G. Johnson

- - "My love, will you marry me?"
- "Yes I will!"
- "Well, I'll take my wages to the jugde, let's see what he decides."

In 1815, a new law came into effect in Vienna, the Ehe Konsens Gesetz (law of consent of marriage), which established that a man could only get marry if he proved his financial solvency. I find that law amazing, not only because it interfered the private lives of citizens (something usual in Metternich's era), but because I thing that many people would follow their lifes with or without a marriage certificate. Or maybe not, maybe many [...]

Details: Published: 02 September 2015

Song of the week: Suleika I (F. Schubert) - G. Janowitz, I. Gage

My dear, I wanted to begin the new season the first week of September, as I always do, but lately I had too much work and too little time to do it, so we'll opening the 2015-2016 season next week. Or so I hope.

At least I'm sharing one of the lieder by Schubert that we heard some days ago at the Schubertiade at Vilabertran, Suleika I. The poem is included in the Book of Suleika of the West-öslicher Divan, the collection of poems where Goethe links the East, thats to say, the poetry by Hafez with the West, German poetry. But despite being part of this Goethe's collection, the poem was written by Marianne von Willemener, a friend, lover or both things of the writer. In their correspondence, he was Hatem and she was... Suleika.

Details: Published: 26 August 2015

Song of the week: Coronach (F. Schubert) - RIAS Kammerchor, P. Mayers

Ellen Douglas showing the ring, from 'Lady of the Lake' by Walter Scott - Richard Westall

We finish here our review of the recitals at the Schubertiade Vilabertran; The closing concert will take place on August 29th. It is a very special concert because, for the first time, choral lieder by Schubert is performed at the Schubertiade. The artists will be soprano Elena Copons, pianist Francisco Poyato and Cor de Cambra de la Diputació de Girona conducted by Pablo Larraz.

Elena Copons and Francisco Poyato will perform some Lieder about the night; I’vei already shared two of them:

Details: Published: 19 August 2015

Song of the week: An eine Äolsharfe (H. Wolf) - D. Röschmann, M. Martineau

This week, the review of recitals at the Schubertiade Vilabertran (which, remember, begins tomorrow) is focused on two concerts that will take place on the same day, Friday 28th of August: Oddur Jonsson and Julia Pujol at 18:30h, and Dorothea Röschmann and Malcolm Martineau at 21:30h. We’ve already heard quite a few of the songs included in these two concerts on Liederabend so let's get started.

Details: Published: 12 August 2015

Song of the week: Sleep (I. Gurney) - S. Connolly, M. Martineau

We continue reviewing song recitals at the next Schubertiade Vilabertran; This week is time for Matthias Goerne and Alexander Schmalcz (Sunday, 23rd August) and Sarah Connolly and Malcolm Martineau (Thursday, 27th August).