Richard Wagner (1813–83) Wesendonck Lieder (1857–58) Eine Sonate für das Album von Frau M. W. (1853)
Franz Liszt (1811–86) DieLorelei (1841) Orpheus, arr. for piano trio (1853–54; arr. Saint-Saëns)
Johannes Brahms (1833–97) Vocal Duets, Opp. 20 (1858–60) and 61 (1852–74) Sonata for Two Pianos in F Minor, Op. 34b (1864)
Joseph Joachim (1831–1907) Overture to Hamlet, Op. 4 (c1855, arr. Brahms)
Tickets: $20, 35, 45
Saturday, August 22, 2009
BMF Program Eight
Bearable Lightness: The Comic Alternative
Saturday, August 22, 2009 at 10:00 am Olin Hall
Performance With Commentaryby Richard Wilson With Jon-Michael Ball, tenor; Amy Cofield-Williamson, soprano; Jonathan Hays, baritone; Jennifer Rivera, mezzo-soprano; James Bassi, piano; Melvin Chen, piano; Blair McMillen, piano
Gabriel Fauré (1845–1924)/ André Messager (1853–1924) Souvenirs de Bayreuth (?1888)
Jacques Offenbach (1819–80) From Le roi Carotte (1872) and Die Rheinnixen (1864)
Franz von Suppé (1819–95) From Lohengelb, oder Die Jungfrau von Dragant (1870)
Arthur Sullivan (1842–1900) and W. S. Gilbert (1836–1911) From Iolanthe (1882)
Johann Strauss Jr. (1825–99) From Eine Nacht in Venedig (1883)
Oscar Straus (1870–1954) From Die lustigen Nibelungen (1904) Piano works and songs by Emmanuel Chabrier (1841–94)
Tickets: $30
BMF Program Nine
Competing Romanticisms
Saturday, August 22, 2009 at 1:00 pm Olin Hall
1 pm Preconcert Talk: Michael Musgrave 1:30 pm Performance: Bard Festival String Quartet; Laura Flax, clarinet; Ieva Jokubaviciute, piano; Soovin Kim, violin; Spencer Myer, piano; Noreen Polera, piano; Raman Ramakrishnan, cello
Karl Goldmark (1830–1915) Romance, for violin and piano (1913)
Johannes Brahms (1833–97) Six Choral Preludes, Op. 122 (1896; arr. Busoni)
Hermann Goetz (1840–76) Piano Quintet in C Minor, Op. 16 (1874)
Heinrich von Herzogenberg (1843–1900) Piano Trio in C Minor, Op. 24 (1877)
Max Bruch (1838–1920) From Eight Pieces for Clarinet, Viola, and Piano, Op. 83 (1910)
Antonín Dvořák (1841–1904) From Cypresses (1865)
Tickets: $35
BMF Program Ten
The Selling of the Ring
Saturday, August 22, 2009 at 8:00 pm Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater
7 pm Preconcert Talk: John Deathridge 8 pm Performance: Catherine Foster, soprano; James Johnson, bass-baritone;Gary Lehman, tenor; American Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Leon Botstein, music director; and others
Richard Wagner (1813–83) Excerpts from Das Rheingold (1854), Die Walküre (1856), Siegfried (1871), and Götterdämmerung (1874)
Tickets: $25, 40, 55
Sunday, August 23, 2009
BMF Panel Two
Wagner and the Jewish Question
Sunday, August 23, 2009 at 10:00 am - 12:00 pm Olin Hall
Carol Kahn Strauss, moderator; Leon Botstein; James Loeffler; Paul Lawrence Rose
Free and open to the public
BMF Program Eleven
Wagnerians
Sunday, August 23, 2009 at 1:30 pm Olin Hall
1 pm Preconcert Talk: Byron Adams 1:30 pm Performance: Bard Festival String Quartet; Melvin Chen, piano; Devon Guthrie, soprano; Piers Lane, piano; Scott Williamson, tenor; students of The Bard College Conservatory of Music
Richard Wagner (1813–83) SiegfriedIdyll (1870)
Henri Duparc (1848–1933) L’invitation au voyage (1870)
Enrique Granados (1867–1916) From Goyescas, Op. 11 (1909–12)
Ernest Chausson (1855–99) Concert, Op. 21 (1889–91)
Charles T. Griffes (1884–1920) From Roman Sketches (1915–16)
Hugo Wolf (1860–1903) Italian Serenade (1887)
Songs by Richard Strauss (1864–1949); Engelbert Humperdinck (1854–1921); Alexander Ritter (1833–96); Claude Debussy (1862-1918); Emmanuel Chabrier (1841–94); and Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
Tickets: $35
BMF Program Twelve
Music and German National Identity
Sunday, August 23, 2009 at 5:30 pm Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater
4:30 pm Preconcert Talk: Christopher H. Gibbs 5:30 pm Performance: Corey Bix, tenor; Devon Guthrie, soprano; John Hancock, baritone; James Johnson, bass-baritone; Julien Robbins, baritone; Scott Williamson, tenor; Bard Festival Chorale, James Bagwell, choral director; American Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Leon Botstein, music director; and others
Richard Wagner (1813–83) Kaisermarsch (1871) Excerpts fom Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (1867)
Anton Bruckner (1824–96) Germanenzug (1863)
Johannes Brahms (1833–97) Triumphlied, Op. 55 (1870–71)