Liebesfluchten

In the organizer's words:

Passionate, wild, poetic, melancholy.

Johannes Brahms' lively, sparkling love song waltzes, composed for choir a cappella and piano four hands, are combined with the finest musical poetry from France and England. On the one hand, Benjamin Britten's Five Flower Songs frame Brahms' songs. The English master has given individual flowers such as the daffodil and the evening primrose a vocal face. Francis Poulenc's Sept Chansons, on the other hand, masterfully balance the tones between folk song and art song, between the banality of everyday life and the unreal world of poetry. And between all the verse settings, Philip Mayers and Sebastian Breuing ring the wedding bells at the piano - with Edvard Grieg's Hochzeitstag auf Troldhaugen for piano four hands.