Wiebke Hoogklimmer - Contralto, Producer and Director
"Clairières dans le ciel"
("Clearings in the sky")
Song cycle by Lili Boulanger (1893-1918) and
selected songs by Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
and Gustav Mahler (1860-1911)
Lili Boulanger is Nadia Boulanger's (the famous composition teacher) younger sister. Lili Boulanger died in 1918 when she was just 24 years old. In 1914 she composed the song cycle "Clairières dans le ciel" for soprano or tenor which I transposed for alto. Lili Boulanger's music comes from the French impressionist era. This song cycle's content is similar to that of Schubert's "Winterreise" and Mahler's "Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen". The songs deal with the unrequited love for a young girl and the subsequent longing for death. Lili Boulanger deals differently with this topic at the Fin de siècle in Paris than the two german speaking composers. To keep this connection I sing apart from the Lili Boulanger cycle selected songs by Schubert and Mahler for this recital.PROGRAMME
| Franz Schubert | Geheimes (Goethe) |
| (1797-1828) | Der Einsame (Lappe) |
| Der Musensohn (Goethe) | |
| Die Taubenpost (Seidl) | |
| Der Doppelgänger (Heine) |
| Gustav Mahler | (aus 'Des Knaben Wunderhorn'): | (1860-1911) | Des Antonius von Padua Fischpredigt |
| Rheinlegendchen | |
| Das irdische Leben | |
| Nicht wiedersehen! | |
| Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen (Rückert) |
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| Lili Boulanger | Clairières dans le ciel (Francis Jammes) |
| (1893-1918) | |
| 1. Elle ètait descendue au bas de la prairie | |
| 2. Elle est gravement gaie | |
| 3. Parfois, je suis triste | |
| 4. Un poète disait | |
| 5. Au pied de mon lit | |
| 6. Si tout ceci n'est qu'un pauvre rêve | |
| 7. Nous nous aimerons tant | |
| 8. Vous m'avez regardé avec toute votre âme | |
| 9. Les lilas qui avaient fleuri | |
| 10. Deux ancolies | |
| 11. Par ce que j'ai souffert | |
| 12. Je garde une médaille d'elle | |
| 13. Demain fera un an |
Wiebke Hoogklimmer, Contralto
Patrick Walliser, Piano
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CD "Clairières dans le ciel" In July 2003 my CD "Clairières dans le ciel" was published with the so named song cycle by Lili Boulanger - transposed for contralto - and with selected songs by Schubert and Mahler, at the piano Patrick Walliser. The Label is THOROFON (order-nr. CTH 2477). For more informations click on the cover! |
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