BMF Program One

Genius Unanticipated

7 pm Preconcert Talk: Leon Botstein
8 pm Performance: Christine Goerke, soprano; American Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Leon Botstein, music director 

Richard Wagner (1813–83)

• Symphony in C Major (1832)
• Overture to Rienzi, the Last of the Tribunes (1840)
• Faust Symphony, First Movement WWV 59 (Faust Overture, First Version) (1840)
• Excerpts from Die Feen (1834); Das Liebesverbot (1836); Tristan und Isolde (1859); and Parsifal (1882)

Tickets: $25, 40, 55

BMF Illustrated Talk

Reality and Image: Wagner in Film

John Deathridge

Free and open to the public

BMF Program Two

In the Shadow of Beethoven

1 pm Preconcert Talk: Alexander Rehding
1:30 pm Performance: Danny Driver, piano; Erin Morley, soprano; Marjorie Owens, soprano; Pei-Yao Wang, piano; Bard Festival Chamber Players

Richard Wagner (1813–83)
Fantasy in F-sharp Minor, for piano (1831)
Der Tannenbaum (1838)
From Seven Compositions from Goethe’s Faust (1831)

Louis Spohr (1784–1859)
Nonet, Op. 31, for strings and winds (1813)

Carl Maria von Weber (1786–1826)
Arias from Der Freischütz (1821) and Oberon (1826)

Carl Czerny (1791–1857)
Variations brillantes, Op. 14 (1821)

Arias and Songs by Carl Loewe (1796–1869); Heinrich Marschner (1795–1861); Robert Franz (1815–92); Friedrich von Flotow (1812–83); Ferdinand Hiller (1811–85); and Carl Maria von Weber (1786-1826)

Tickets: $35

BMF Program Three

Wagner and the Choral Tradition

  5 pm Performance: Bard Festival Chamber Players; Bard Festival Chorale, conducted by James Bagwell, choral director

 

Richard Wagner (1813–83)
Festgesang “Der Tag erscheint” (1843)                  
Gesang am Grabe Julies von Holtei (1839)                                     

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (c. 1525–94)
From Stabat mater (1590; ed. Wagner, 1848)                                      

Franz Liszt (1811–86) 
Ave verum corpus (1871)                                                                  
O salutaris hostia (c. 1870)

Anton Bruckner (1824–96)
Os justi meditabitur, WAB 30 (1879)
Locus iste a Deo factus est, WAB 23 (1869)                                     

Johannes Brahms (1833–97)
Four Songs for Women’s Chorus, Two Horns, and Harp, Op. 17 (1869) 
Vier Zigeunerlieder, Op. 112b (by 1891)
Fest- und Gedenksprüche, Op. 109 (?1888–89)
Der bucklichte Fiedler, Op. 93a, No. 1 (1883)
Verlorene Jugend, Op. 104, No. 4 (by 1888)
Von alten Liebesliedern, Op. 62, No. 2 (1873–74)
Schaffe in mir Gott, Op. 29, No. 2 (1856–60)                  

Tickets: $30

 

BMF Program Four

The Triumphant Revolutionary

7 pm Preconcert Talk
8 pm Performance:

Richard Wagner (1813–83)
Excerpts: The Flying Dutchman (1841); Lohengrin (1848); and Tannhäuser (1861)

Supplemental materials for La descente de la courtille (1841) by Th. Marion Dumersan and Ch.-Désiré Dupeuty, and Norma (1831) by Vincenzo Bellini

Tickets: $25, 40, 55

Richard Brunner, tenor; Christine Goerke, soprano; John Hancock, baritone; Daniel Mobbs, bass-baritone; Scott Williamson, tenor; Bard Festival Chorale, James Bagwell, choral director; American Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Leon Botstein, music director; and others

BMF Panel One

Warring Aesthetics

Thomas S. Grey, moderator; Kevin Karnes; Lawrence Kramer; Alexander Rehding

Free and open to the public

BMF Program Five

Wagner's Destructive Obsession: Mendelssohn and Friends

1 pm Preconcert Talk: R. Larry Todd
1:30 pm Performance: Borromeo String Quartet; Edward Arron, cello; Bernadene Blaha, piano; Jeremy Denk, piano; John Hancock, baritone; Stefan Jackiw, violin; Piers Lane, piano; Jeffrey Lang, horn

Richard Wagner (1813–83)
Les deux grenadiers (1839–40)

Felix Mendelssohn (1809–47)
From Songs Without Words, Opp. 19b, 38, and 67 (1829–45)
Hebrides Overture, Op. 26, arr. piano duet (1830, arr. 1832)
Piano Trio No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 66 (1845)

Robert Schumann (1810–56)
Die beiden Grenadiere, Op. 49/1 (1840)
Piano Quintet in E-flat Major, Op. 44 (1842)
Andante and Variations, WoO 10 (1843)

Clara Schumann (1819–96)
Die stille Lotusblume, Op. 13/6 (1840–43)

Tickets: $35

BMF Program Six

Wagner in Paris

5 pm Preconcert Talk: Jann Pasler
5:30 pm Performance: Borromeo String Quartet; Randolph Bowman, flute; Jeremy Denk, piano; Danny Driver, piano; Laura Flax, clarient; Angela Meade, soprano; Erin Morley, soprano; Pei-Yao Wang, piano; Scott Williamson, tenor

Richard Wagner (1813–83)
Adieux de Marie Stuart, for voice and piano (1840)
Attente, for voice and piano (1839)

Luigi Cherubini (1760–1842)
String Quartet No. 4 in E Major (1835)

Daniel-François-Esprit Auber (1782–1871)
From Zanetta, arr. for flute and string trio (1840; arr. Wagner)

Giacomo Meyerbeer (1791–1864)
Hirtenlied, for voice, clarinet, and piano (1842)

Ferdinand Hérold (1791–1833)
Overture to Zampa, arr. for piano four hands (1831)

Fromental Halévy (1799–1862)
From Le Guitarrero, arr. for flute and string trio (1841, arr. Wagner)

Hector Berlioz (1803–69)
“March to the Scaffold,” from Symphonie fantastique, Op. 14 (1830; arr. Liszt)

Fryderyk Chopin (1810–49)
Polonaise-Fantasy, Op. 61 (1846)

Franz Liszt (1811–86)
Réminiscences des Huguenots (1836–42)

Arias by Gaspare Spontini (1774–1851); Giaochino Rossini (1792–1868); and Vincenzo Bellini (1801–35)

Tickets: $20, 35, 45

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