CONCERT AT WILDEBRAAM, Swellendam
Venue: Wildebraam Cellar Tickets: R140pp (meal incl)
R100pp (meal excl)
Time: 7pm for meal. 8pm for concert.
Booking: Tel. 028 – 514 3132
Marcelle Volckaert, Soprano
The art of love celebrated with song; and the art of song celebrated with love.
1) Vesperal - O. Lorenzo Fernandez
2) Intorno all'idol mio – Marcus Antonio Cesti (1623 – 1669)
3) Amarilli – Giulio Caccini (1551 – 1618)
4) Cujus animam gementem -Stabat Mater - Pergolesi (1710 - 1736)
5) Vidit suum -Stabat Mater - Pergolesi (1710 - 1736)
Waltz Opus 64 No. 1 (The “Minute” Waltz) - Chopin
6) Le Spectre de la Rose - Hector Berlioz
7) Serenade - Franz Schubert
8) Melodia Sentimental - Villa Lobos
Interval
9) Gretchen am Spinnrade - Franz Schubert
10) Spoza son disprezzata - Vivaldi
Preludes Opus 34 Nos. 13,14,17 - Shostakovich
11) La mort d'Ophélie – Hector Berlioz (1803 – 1869)
12) Deh vieni, non tardar - Le Nozze di Figaro - Mozart
Love and music are linked in such a way, that to think of the one is to automatically think of the other. This relationship is explored here as the various aspects that make up love.
From the tragedy of a mother's loss in the Stabat Mater to the worshipping desire of Intorno and the painfully fearful longing of Amarilli; music has a way of capturing these emotions that are all one great emotion, love, as no other medium can. The purity of line in these Aria Antiche transcends both translation and time and so we are able to enjoy them 400 years on!
Le Spectre de la Rose tells us that love is a fragile thing of beauty to be admired while Schubert deals with passion, its promise and its consequences! Melodia Sentimental takes passion to new heights! What is love without passion after all? These soaring lines and sumptuous rhythms capture the vastness of this emotion in all its tangled glory as only the wild Villa Lobos can!
Love is not always wonderful though and while Vivaldi deals with neglect, who more fitting than Shakespeare's doomed Ophelia to remind us of how fragile we can become in the face of loss and rejection? Poor Ophelia's madness and death by drowning are beautifully captured in Berlioz's haunting melody. So taken was Berlioz with the works of Shakespeare that this Frenchman undertook the study of English for the sole purpose of being able to read more of the great Bard's plays!
Ending the program on a lighter note we have Mozart's wonderful heroine, Suzanna. She sings a cheeky song about a romantic rendezvous with a mysterious lover ...
These songs, bring to light a partnership that is also a powerful 'love affair' of sorts - as artists ~ pianist and singer ~ work together to make music that would not be possible alone. It is a relationship that is stronger for being together than for being apart. That supports and enhances when the going is good and detracts and destroys when the going is bad! That soars and creates in a passion shared – “if music be the food of love,” indeed, “play on!”
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