A program of
songs on the poetry of
Heinrich Heine (1797-1856)
Peter W. Shea, tenor Gretchen Saathoff, pianist
Applewood at
Amherst
October 28, 2005,
4:00 pm
Eight songs
Edvard Grieg (1843-1907)
Hör’ ich das Liedchen klingen (When I hear
the little song)
Der Fichtenbaum (The pine tree)
Wo sind sie hin? (Where have they gone?)
Das alte Lied (The old song)
Gruß (Greeting)
Ich
stand in dunkeln Träumen (I stood in dark dreams)
Abschied (Parting)
Eingehüllt in graue Wolken (Closely
wrapped in misty billows)
Auf dem Meere (On the sea) Robert Franz (1815-1892)
Das Meer hat seine Perlen
(The sea has its pearls)
An die blaue Himmelsdecke (On the dark
blue vault of heaven)
Aus den Himmelsaugen droben (From heaven's
eyes above)
Eingewiegt von Meereswellen (Gently rocked
by ocean billows)
An die bretterne Schiffswand (Against the
ship's wooden hull)
Es träumte mir von einer weiten Haide (I
dreamed about a wide and
lonely prairie)
Four settings
of Wasserfahrt (Sea voyage)
Wasserfahrt (1837) Wilhelm
Taubert (1811-1891)
Wasserfahrt (mid-1800s) Caroline Unger-Sabatier (1820-1879)
Wasserfahrt (1911) Ossip Salomonovich Gabrilovich
(1878-1936)
Wasserfahrt (mid-1800s) Friedrich Wilhelm Kücken (1810-1882)
To Heine (composed 1956, revised
2002)
Alfred
Heller
Break forth in loud complaining
The incantation
Autumn fog, cold fantasy
Belshazzar