AN HOMAGE TO SWISS ART SONG
As a Swiss song festival, the RHONEFESTIVAL FOR LIEDKUNST exclusively promotes Swiss composers and poets at its SUMMER CONCERT and thus provides unparalleled pioneering work for the Swiss art song – all with a twinkle in the eye around Swiss National Day. #SWISSNESS !
LIEDER US UM TAL (2022)
Das SOMMERKONZERT 2022 präsentiert EUGEN MEIERS Liederzyklus „Lieder us um Tal“, welcher in Gedichten von HANNES TAUGWALDER vom Bergleben erzählt im Spiegel von romantischen bis zeitgenössischen Schweizer Werken von OTHMAR SCHOECK, ISABEL MUNDRY, HERMANN VON GLENCK oder JOACHIM RAFF.
AU COEUR DES ALPES (2021)
Musical trouvailles between folk song and lied with MARIE-CLAUDE CHAPPUIS, mezzosoprano; LUCA PIANCA, lute & CHRISTEL SAUTAUX, accordion.
SWISS ART SONG IN THE 20th CENTURY (2020)
Unknown treasures from Swiss composers from the romantic to modern period interpreted by KATHRIN HOTTIGER and EDWARD RUSHTON. With songs by PAUL HINDEMITH on poems by Swiss poets ADOLF FREY and HANS REINHART, MAY ZEHNDER (5 songs after STEFAN GEORGE), THEODOR FRÖHLICH, ERNEST BLOCH, EMIL FREY as well as lieder by HANS PFITZNER and HEINRICHT VON HERZOGENBERG on poems by GOTTFRIED KELLER.
OLD TALES, REDISCOVERED – AN HOMAGE À G. KELLER (2019)
A musical homage to the Swiss poet GOTTFRIED KELLER. The cycle of poems “Alte Weisen” is represented in music by HUGO WOLF, FELIX WEINGARTNER, HANS SOMMER and HANS PFITZNER as well as selected music by JOHANNES BRAHMS and OTHMAR SCHOECK on poemy by GOTTFRIED KELLER