Christina Pier and Benjamin Appl Sing Lieder

Pre-Concert Chat at 5:45 PM Lawn Paver Bar Clara Schumann Lieder Op. 12 Franz Schubert Selected Lieder Robert Schumann Dichterliebe (A Poet’s Love), Op. 48 The soloists from Brahms’s German Requiem offer a recital of lieder (German songs) supported by the Festival’s Principal Keyboard Peter Henderson. Christina Pier’s selections include works by Franz Schubert and Clara Schumann. Benjamin Appl will sing Schumann’s Dichterliebe (A Poet’s Love), a cycle of 16 short—sometimes only three lines—songs based on poems about love. It starts out happily enough, with visions of flowers and birds, but ends with the poet contemplating drowning his sorrows, his love, and his dreams in a coffin in the sea. Alasdair’s take on the program: Schumann’s Dichterliebe stands at the pinnacle of 19th Century song-writing, and its tale of love and loss will be sure to affect you deeply.