EMILY POGORELC & JULIUS DRAKE RECITAL

In her Festival debut, soprano Emily Pogorelc—praised by BBC Music Magazine as a “sensational” artist who’s “rapidly becoming a star on the European opera scene”—and the acclaimed pianist JuliusDrake perform two towering song cycles: Mahler’s deeply moving Songs of a Wayfarer which evokes the anguish of lost love, and Korngold’s beautiful Songs of Farewell, written while the young composer was coming to terms with the losses of World War I and with being separated from his future wife. Pogorelc and Drake also perform an alluring set of songs by Britten that features text by the poet W. H. Auden.

BRITTEN On This Island, Op. 11

MAHLER Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (Songs of a Wayfarer)

KORNGOLD Abschiedslieder (Songs of Farewell), Op. 14

Approximate length: 1 hour

Performed by

Julius Drake

Piano
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