• Fri 05.06.
  • 10.00 p.m.
  • England
    ·London
    ·Wigmore Hall

Works by Schubert and Mahler

Programme

    • Franz Schubert (1797–1828)
    • (arr. by Anton Webern) Tränenregen - Ihr Bild - Romanze - Der Wegweiser - Du bist die Ruh
    • Gustav Mahler (1860–1911)
    • (arr. by Arnold Schönberg) Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen - Wenn mein Schatz Hochzeit macht - Ging heut‘ morgen übers Feld - Ich hab ein glühend Messer - Die zwei blauen Augen

Violin

Sarah Christian

Sarah Christian’s wish is to convey the honest emotion and energy of classical music to her listeners. In her artistic life, she enjoys combining all influences, not having to compromise anything in her many roles as soloist, chamber musician, the Deutsche Kammer­philharmonie Bremen’s concert master or as Artistic Director of a chamber music series in her home town of Augsburg. Here she makes the highest demands on herself. Her focus, when studying scores, is always on the music itself, which she approaches with the greatest respect. Her most important teacher is Antje Weithaas, with whom she studied at the Hanns Eisler Music College in Berlin and whose assistant she later became. As professor, Sarah Christian supervises her own class at the Stuttgart College of Music and Performing Arts.

One of her greatest competition success is the ARD Music Competition 2017, at which she won 2nd Prize (no 1st prize was awarded). She also won the audience prize and the Munich Chamber Orchestra’s special prize. Sarah Christian has performed in many European countries, as well as in China, Japan, South America and The United States. As soloist, she has played with orchestras such as the Camerata Salzburg, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Auckland Philharmonia. She gave her debut at Carnegie Hall with the Bavarian State Orchestra in March 2018. Her Debut CD (GENUIN, 2017), featuring Prokofiev’s Sonata No. 1 in F minor Op. 80 and Schubert’s C Major Fantasy has been greatly praised by the press »Sarah Christian’s solo debut is simply fantastic! This violinist has proven to be an extremely sensitive interpreter and she is technically quite simply unimpeachable.« (klassik.com).

Baritone

Florian Boesch

Florian Boesch is counted as one of today’s foremost Lied interpreters with appearances at Vienna Musikverein and Konzerthaus, Carnegie Hall New York, the Concertgebouw Amsterdam and London’s Wigmore Hall, Laeiszhalle Hamburg, at the International Edinburgh Festival and with the BBC.

Boesch also gives guest performances at festivals in England, Denmark, France, Spain, Portugal, Switzerland, the US and Canada. In Glasgow, accompanied by Malcolm Martineau, he performed a complete Schubert cycle.

Upcoming concerts in the current season will take him to Paris, Vienna, among others with Nikolaus Harnoncourt, with the Berlin Philharmonic under Sir Simon Rattle to Baden-Baden, Copenhagen and Vienna, on tour with Philippe Herreweghe and with the Royal Concertgebouw Orkest under Iván Fischer to Manchester.

He works very closely with Nikolaus Harnoncourt, with whom he did Haydn‘s ›Creation‹ and ›The Seasons‹.

His recording of Lieder and ballads by Carl Loewe received the prestigious Edison Klassiek Award 2012. Florian Boesch’s latest CD, Franz Schubert´s ›Winterreise‹, ›Die Schöne Müllerin‹ and ›Der Wanderer‹ have been highly acclaimed in the international press.

Violin

Sarah Christian

Sarah Christian’s wish is to convey the honest emotion and energy of classical music to her listeners. In her artistic life, she enjoys combining all influences, not having to compromise anything in her many roles as soloist, chamber musician, the Deutsche Kammer­philharmonie Bremen’s concert master or as Artistic Director of a chamber music series in her home town of Augsburg. Here she makes the highest demands on herself. Her focus, when studying scores, is always on the music itself, which she approaches with the greatest respect. Her most important teacher is Antje Weithaas, with whom she studied at the Hanns Eisler Music College in Berlin and whose assistant she later became. As professor, Sarah Christian supervises her own class at the Stuttgart College of Music and Performing Arts.

One of her greatest competition success is the ARD Music Competition 2017, at which she won 2nd Prize (no 1st prize was awarded). She also won the audience prize and the Munich Chamber Orchestra’s special prize. Sarah Christian has performed in many European countries, as well as in China, Japan, South America and The United States. As soloist, she has played with orchestras such as the Camerata Salzburg, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Auckland Philharmonia. She gave her debut at Carnegie Hall with the Bavarian State Orchestra in March 2018. Her Debut CD (GENUIN, 2017), featuring Prokofiev’s Sonata No. 1 in F minor Op. 80 and Schubert’s C Major Fantasy has been greatly praised by the press »Sarah Christian’s solo debut is simply fantastic! This violinist has proven to be an extremely sensitive interpreter and she is technically quite simply unimpeachable.« (klassik.com).