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Proms 2021 Pauline Viardot and Her Circle

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Pauline Viardot and Her Circle
18:00 Mon 6 Sep 2021 Cadogan Hall
BBC New Generation Artist Ema Nikolovska and pianist Malcolm Martineau invite you to step into Pauline Viardot’s salon for a lunchtime recital of music by the 19th-century composer and her dazzling friends and contemporaries.
BBC New Generation Artist Ema Nikolovska and pianist Malcolm Martineau invite you to step into Pauline Viardot’s salon for a lunchtime recital of music by the 19th-century composer and her dazzling friends and contemporaries.

Programme

      • Già la notte s’avvicina (Canzonetta de concert)(4 mins)attr. Joseph Haydn/Roman Hoffstetter, arr. Pauline Viardot
      • Five Songs, Op. 94 – No. 4: ‘Sapphische Ode’(2 mins)
      • Seven Songs, Op. 48 – No. 1: ‘Der Gang zum Liebchen’(2 mins)
      • Volkslied(3 mins)
      • Lorelei(3 mins)
      • Vergiftet sind meine Lieder(1 mins)
      • Comment, disaient-ils(2 mins)(1849–59 version)
      • Six Songs of the 15th Century – No. 1: ‘Aimez-moi’(3 mins)
      • La voix qui dit: je t’aime(2 mins)
      • Chansons espagnoles – No. 6: ‘Es corredor’(2 mins)arr. Pauline Viardot
      • Le prophète – ‘Donnez pour une pauvre âme’(6 mins)
      • Le dernier sorcier – ‘Coulez, gouttes fines’ (Chanson de la pluie)(3 mins)
      • Two Songs, Op. 4 – No. 1: ‘La chanson du pêcheur (Lamento)(3 mins)
      • The Tit(2 mins)
      • My genius, my angel, my friend!(2 mins)
      • On Georgian Hills(2 mins)
      • 12 Romances, Op. 60 – No. 10: ‘At the window, in the shadow’(2 mins)
      • Six Mazurkas by Frédéric Chopin – No. 4: ‘Zalotna’(3 mins)arr. Pauline Viardot

Performers

Composers

About This Event

A household name across Europe during the late 19th century, Pauline Viardot was an international opera star by 18, studied the piano with Liszt, played duets with Chopin, charmed Saint-Saëns, Berlioz, Gounod and the writer Turgenev, and hosted the greatest musical salon of her day. She was also a fine composer, though one still heard too rarely today. BBC New Generation Artist Ema Nikolovska and pianist Malcolm Martineau invite you to step into Viardot’s drawing room for a lunchtime recital of music by Viardot, her friends and her contemporaries – including Gounod, Brahms, Tchaikovsky and Chopin.

There will be no interval

This concert is also performed at 1.00pm

Image: Ema Nikolovska © Kaupo Kikkas

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