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Nathalie Stutzmann: The Power of Love

,Milton Court Concert Hall
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The French mezzo explores the twin worlds of French and German song: miniature universes of concentrated emotion, where not a note goes to waste.

Nature runs like a stream through the world of German romantic song, and the joys of love are only ever one chord away from the agony of loss. The songs of Chausson, Debussy and Fauré breathe a very different air, and Nathalie Stutzmann savours the contrast. 

‘We have to have an idea of how we feel; we have to put all our emotions, our experience of life in this music’ says Stutzmann, and together with pianist Inger Södergren she’s assembled a sequence of songs that thrive on that approach, whether in the direct lyricism of Schubert or the quiet ecstasies of Debussy and Fauré. It all adds up to an exquisite evening of song, from artists of unique insight and experience.

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Programme

Schubert Fischerweise
Sehnsucht
Lachen und Weinen
Du bist die Ruh
An die Laute
Die junge Nonne
Fauré ‘Mandoline’ from Cinq Mélodies de Venice
‘Clair de lune’ from Deux Mélodies, Op 46 No 2
‘Nell’ from Trois Mélodies, Op 8 No 1
‘Après un rêve’ from Trois Mélodies, Op 7 No 1
Chausson ‘Sérénade italienne’ from Sept Mélodies, Op 2 No 5
‘Les papillons’ from Sept Mélodies, Op 2 No 3
‘Les heures’ from 3 Lieder, Op 27 No 1
Le temps des lilas
Debussy ‘Les cloches’ from 2 Romances
Fleurs des blés
‘La chevelure’ from 3 Chansons de Bilitis
‘La mer est plus belle’ from 3 Mélodies de Verlaine

Performers

Nathalie Stutzmann contralto
Inger Södergren piano

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