Women

December 1, 2015

Meredith Nicholl, Mezzo-soprano
Chanda VanderHart, Piano
Ambitus Extended, String Quintet
Performing Center Austria Students

Program

Kurt Weill
Hanns Eisler
Johannes Kretz
Ethel Smyth

Richard Wagner

Kurt Weill
Rudolf Hinterdorfer
Benjamin Britten
Sylvie Lacroix
Benjamin Britten

Julia Purgina
Kurt Weill

INTERVAL

Sofia Gubaidulina (*1931)

Kurt Weill

“My Ship” from Lady in the Dark (Ira Gershwin)
"Diese Stadt" from 5 Elegies (Bertolt Brecht)
Inside Outside for String Quintet (2015)
"Tanzlied" (Georg Büchner)

"Im Treibhaus" from the Wesendonck Lieder

"Surabaya Johnny" from Happy End
Ständchen for Violine Solo (2015)
“Johnny”, from Cabaret Songs (W.H. Auden)
Nu Bleu I for Violine Solo (2015)
“Funeral Blues” from Cabaret Songs

Mini-Fun(k)-Piece for Viola and Double Bass Without Bows, but Lots of Groove (2015)
“J’attends un Navire“ from Marie Galante (Jacques Deval)

from 10 Präludien für Violoncello solo:
Präludium No. 10 [1974, rev. 1999 ]
senza arco, senza pizzicato
“I’m a Stranger Here Myself” from One Touch of Venus (Ogden Nash)

Georg Kreisler
Hanns Eisler

Max Oelz
Hanns Eisler

Jörg Ulrich Krah

Hanns Eisler
Piotr Skweres

“Der Zweitälteste Frauenberuf der Welt”
"Unter den grünen Pfefferbäumen" from 5 Elegies
"Die Stadt" from 5 Elegies
Eis for Violine and Kontrabass (2015)
"Frühling" from Hollywood Songbook (Bertolt Brecht)

Aphorismus 3, from Sechs Aphorismen for Violin and Cello (2012)

"Ballade von der Judenhure Marie Sanders"
Impulsive (2015)

Benjamin Britten

Leonard Bernstein

"Calypso" from Cabaret Songs

"I am Easily Assimilated“ from Candide