Sunday |
30
March 2025
|
6:00 PM
- Sabin Tambrea, Recitation
- Alexander Krichel, piano
The "melodrama", i.e. spoken word or recited text set to instrumental music, is already familiar from Ludwig van Beethoven, for example in the incidental music to "Egmont". Melodrama flourished as an independent art form in the 19th century - today, however, it is almost forgotten. The pianist Alexander Krichel, who is very popular at the Beethoven-Haus, and the actor Sabin Tambrea, recently seen in the cinema as Franz Kafka in the film "The Glory of Life", will perform a whole evening of short melodramas by Franz Schubert, Robert Schumann, Richard Strauss and the longer melodrama "Hexenkessel" by Max von Schillings, which was famous at the time.
With the kind support of the Hermann J. Abs Foundation
- Robert Schumann, Schön Hedwig op. 106 (Text: Friedrich Hebbel)
- Robert Schumann, Zwei Balladen op. 122 (Text: Friedrich Hebbel, Julis Seybt)
- Franz Liszt, Der traurige Mönch (Text: Nikolaus Lenau)
- Richard Strauss, Das Schloss am Meere (Text: Ludwig Uhland)
- Max von Schillings, Das Hexenlied op. 15 (Text: Ernst von Wildenbruch)