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Classical concert
Mimiko: Fin de siècle Vienna
Offene Kirche St. Elisabethen
Elisabethenstrasse 10-14, 4051 Basel
Ioana Illie, Sarah Baxter (piano)
Event details
Program :
Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951)
Four Songs, Op. 2 (1899)
No. 1 Expectation
No. 2 Give me your golden comb
No. 3 Elevation
No. 4 Waldsonne
Alban Berg (1885-1935)
Seven early songs (1907)
No. 1 Night
No. 2 Reed Song
No. 3 The Nightingale
No. 4 Traumgekrönt
No. 5 In the room
No. 6 Love song
No. 7 Summer day
Schoenberg's Lieder op. 2 were written in 1903-4 without the preconceived plan of a cyclical composition and are dedicated to mentor, friend, and brother-in-law Alexander von Zemlinsky: "Zemlinsky is the one to whom I owe almost all my knowledge of technique and the problems of composing," Schoenberg remarked. It was Zemlinsky who made the self-taught Schoenberg more familiar with the inner workings of the music of Brahms and Wagner, to which these four songs also bear witness.
Constantly searching for new chords and harmonic sequences, Zemlinsky's innovative ideas can be clearly heard in the Songs Op. 7, which he composed between 1898 and 1899. At a soirée he met Alma Schindler (later wife of Gustav Mahler) and instantly fell in love with the beautiful and confident woman. During this evening party, Zemlinsky spontaneously dedicated his Op. 7 to Alma, who was a complete stranger to him at the time, because he saw in her the embodiment of Princess Irmelin Rose from the fourth poem of his song cycle.
The Baxter-Ilie Duo was born in 2018 both from the musical naturalness with which the two worked and communicated with each other from the very beginning, and from the musicians' shared desire to engage regularly and intensively with different composers of the Lied genre. The musicians have enriched their experience through master studies in song composition with Prof. Jan Schultsz at the Musik-Akademie Basel as well as through master classes with personalities such as François Le Roux, Jeff Cohen, Christian Ivaldi and Graham Johnson. The collaboration between the musicians developed even further in 2021, when the song cycle THE FOREIGNER was composed - texts by Sarah set to music by Ioana. The joint creation connects the two on a high artistic level and confirms the identity of the duo Baxter-Ilie.
Note: This text was translated by machine translation software and not by a human translator. It may contain translation errors.
Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951)
Four Songs, Op. 2 (1899)
No. 1 Expectation
No. 2 Give me your golden comb
No. 3 Elevation
No. 4 Waldsonne
Alban Berg (1885-1935)
Seven early songs (1907)
No. 1 Night
No. 2 Reed Song
No. 3 The Nightingale
No. 4 Traumgekrönt
No. 5 In the room
No. 6 Love song
No. 7 Summer day
Schoenberg's Lieder op. 2 were written in 1903-4 without the preconceived plan of a cyclical composition and are dedicated to mentor, friend, and brother-in-law Alexander von Zemlinsky: "Zemlinsky is the one to whom I owe almost all my knowledge of technique and the problems of composing," Schoenberg remarked. It was Zemlinsky who made the self-taught Schoenberg more familiar with the inner workings of the music of Brahms and Wagner, to which these four songs also bear witness.
Constantly searching for new chords and harmonic sequences, Zemlinsky's innovative ideas can be clearly heard in the Songs Op. 7, which he composed between 1898 and 1899. At a soirée he met Alma Schindler (later wife of Gustav Mahler) and instantly fell in love with the beautiful and confident woman. During this evening party, Zemlinsky spontaneously dedicated his Op. 7 to Alma, who was a complete stranger to him at the time, because he saw in her the embodiment of Princess Irmelin Rose from the fourth poem of his song cycle.
The Baxter-Ilie Duo was born in 2018 both from the musical naturalness with which the two worked and communicated with each other from the very beginning, and from the musicians' shared desire to engage regularly and intensively with different composers of the Lied genre. The musicians have enriched their experience through master studies in song composition with Prof. Jan Schultsz at the Musik-Akademie Basel as well as through master classes with personalities such as François Le Roux, Jeff Cohen, Christian Ivaldi and Graham Johnson. The collaboration between the musicians developed even further in 2021, when the song cycle THE FOREIGNER was composed - texts by Sarah set to music by Ioana. The joint creation connects the two on a high artistic level and confirms the identity of the duo Baxter-Ilie.
Note: This text was translated by machine translation software and not by a human translator. It may contain translation errors.