Juilliard Recital: Vocal Arts

This week's Wednesdays at One recital at Alice Tully was given over to vocal arts.  There were so many pieces and performers on the program that I really can't do more in such a limited space than to provide a program listing in order of appearance.

• Canticle I: My beloved is mine and I am his, Op. 40, by Benjamin Britten (Michael St. Peter, tenor, and Dan K. Kuland, piano) 

• Auf dem Kirchhofe and Unbewegte laue Luft by Johannes Brahms; Flickan kom ifrån sin älsklings möte by Jean Sibelius (Angela Vallone, soprano, and William Kelley, piano) 

• Des fleurs and De Soir from Proses lyriques by Claude Debussy (Nicolette Mavroleon, soprano, and Nathan Raskin, piano) 

• Fußreise, Um Mitternacht, Zur Warnung and Der Feuerreiter from Gedichte von Eduard Mörike by Hugo Wolf (Jake Alan Nelson, baritone, and Dror Baitel, piano) 

• Ptak from Trzy pieśni, Op. 3, by Henryk Górecki; Sál mín svífur burt from New Icelandic Folksongs, Op. 9, by Evan Fein; George from Cabaret Songs, Vol. 2, by William Bolcom (Christopher Dylan Herbert, baritone, and William Kelley, piano)

For the record, my favorites were Wolf's Der Feuerreiter ("The Fire-Rider") and Bolcom's George.  But all the performances were excellent and it was exciting to hear so many unfamiliar pieces sung so well.