Of Love and Beloved: Christoph Prégardien & Roger Vignoles

Goethe-Institut Hongkong is pleased to support the concert "Of Love and Beloved: Christoph Prégardien & Roger Vignoles", with works of Beethoven, Schumann and Schubert, presented by HKU MUSE on November 12, 2023 (Sun) at 3:00 PM at the Grand Hall, Lee Shau Kee Lecture Centre, Centennial Campus of the University of Hong Kong.

Programme
BEETHOVEN An die ferne Geliebte
SCHUBERT Rellstab-Lieder from Schwanengesang
SCHUMANN Dichterliebe

Artists
Christoph Prégardien, tenor
Roger Vignoles, piano

Tickets are now available at art-mate

“consummately sung and played… [Prégardien’s] intelligence as an interpreter is as sharply focused as ever, with the ability to make his audience hang on every word, totally immersed in the worlds he evokes.” —The Guardian
 
Requited love, or the absence of it, remains a dominant muse for composers. Come and hear a performance by celebrated tenor Christoph Prégardien, accompanied by Roger Vignoles, of three song cycles of love, loss, and yearning. Beethoven expresses regret and acceptance in his song cycle An die ferne Geliebte. Schubert laments rejected love in the yearning melodies of his Rellstab-Lieder from Schwanengesang. And in Dichterliebe, Schumann depicts a story of love and betrayal set to Heinrich Heine’s poems.