Histoires naturelles
Saturday 23 May / 20.15 - 22.00 hours
Simon Keenlyside, baritone / Malcolm Martineau, piano
World-renowned baritone Simon Keenlyside has an unsuspected side to his impressive singing career: he also graduated as a zoologist. So when he is not on stage, he likes nothing better than to spend his time in nature. ‘Because,’ he says, ‘then I have the chance to see things no one else gets to see. Except maybe David Attenborough.’ And when he is not travelling, he works on his own farm to create better ecological conditions for people and animals: ‘I want to leave that little piece of earth a little better than when I found it.’
This makes him the singer par excellence to perform a programme focusing on the connection between man and nature, flora and fauna. Together with Malcolm Martineau - liedpianist pur sang - with whom he has worked for many years, you will experience our planet full of wonders in a new way.
Gustav Mahler (1860-1911)
Des Antonius von Padua Fischpredigt (from: Des Knaben Wunderhorn)
’Verlorne Müh' (from: Des Knaben Wunderhorn)
Frühlingsmorgen (from: Lieder und Gesänge aus der Jugendzeit)
Ablösung im Somme (from: Lieder und Gesänge aus der Jugendzeit)
Phantasie aus Don Juan (from: Lieder und Gesänge aus der Jugendzeit)
Der Tamboursg'sell (from: Des Knaben Wunderhorn)
Richard Strauss (1864-1949)
Waldesfahrt (Heine)
Winter Night (Friedrich)
Night corridor (Bierbaum)
Wasserrose (Dahn)
Ständchen (Friedrich)
break
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
From: Histoires Naturelles (Ravel)
Le paon
Le grillon
Le cygne
Le martin-pecheur
La pintade
Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924)
Spleen (Verlaine)
Le pays des rêves op. 39/3 (Silvestre)
Henri Duparc (1848-1933)
Phidylé (Leconte de Lisle)
Francis Poulenc (1899-1963)
Le Disparu (Desnos)
C (Aragon)
Fêtes galantes (Aragon)
Great Hall
Evangelical Brotherhood
Zusterplein 12, 3703 CB Zeist
Simon Keenlyside / baritone
Sir Simon Keenlyside enjoys great fame as an opera singer and soloist in oratorios, for which he has worked with leading conductors and orchestras. He is also loved as an interpreter of the lied repertoire, winning the hearts of audiences worldwide. His extensive discography proves his broad, musical ability and includes recordings with Graham Johnson, Malcolm Martineau, Sir Simon Rattle and Riccardo Chailly, among others. For his achievements to the music world, he received several prestigious awards. For instance, he was appointed Kammersänger at the Wiener Staatsoper and knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 2018.
Malcolm Martineau / piano
Malcolm Martineau is considered one of the UK's leading lied pianists. He has performed worldwide with the world's greatest singers, including Ian Bostridge, Florian Boesch, Angelika Kirchschlager, Dame Felicity Lott, Ann Murray and Anne Sofie von Otter. He also has a number of his own concert series at Wigmore Hall and the Edinburgh Festival to his credit. Martineau's discography includes over a hundred CDs, many of which have received awards.
Besides his concerts, Martineau teaches lied accompaniment at the Royal Academy of Music in London, holds an honorary doctorate and is International Fellow of Accompaniment at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. For his achievements for music and young singers, he was knighted in 2016.
Simon Keenlyside and Malcolm Martineau - two master craftlieden - delivered Ravel's Histoires naturelles as satirical vignettes of four birds and an insect described with delightful detail, sly humour and a storyteller's eye and ear for detail.