Vancouver Recital Society

Vancouver Playhouse

25 November 2018, 15.00 hrs

Simon Keenlyside, baritone

Malcolm Martineau, piano

 

 

Programme 

Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)

Nachtigallen schwingen
Verzagen
Über die Heide
O kühler Wald
Nachtwandler
Es schauen die Blumen

Francis Poulenc (1899-1963)

Paganini
Quatre poèmes de Guillaume Apollinaire:
I. L’anguille
II. Carte postale
III. Avant le cinéma
IV. 1904

Suite française, FP 80 (piano solo)
Pavane

Maurice Ravel (1875-1837)

Histoires naturelles, M. 50
I. Le paon
II. Le grillon
III. Le cygne
IV. Le martin-pêcheur
V. La pintade

Interval

Francis Poulenc

Le travail du peintre, FP 161 13’
I. Pablo Picasso
II. Marc Chagall
III. Georges Braque
IV. Juan Gris
V. Paul Klee
VI. Joan Miró
VII. Jacques Villon

Franz Schubert (1797-1828) 

Liebesbotschaft
Alinde
Ständchen
An die Leier
Nachtstück
An den Mond in einer Herbstnacht
Herbstlied
Abschied

Encores

Schubert:  L’incanto degli occhi

Schubert:  Heidenröslein

 

Photo Gallery

 

Sound bites

VancouverClassicalMusic, 04.12.18, Geoffrey Newman

“…This concert marked the first stop on baritone Sir Simon Keenlyside and pianist Malcolm Martineau’s 2018 North American tour. It was very successful: starting from songs of Brahms, Poulenc and Ravel and ending with Schubert, both artists were on top of their form and gave a fully memorable recital. Keenlyside exhibited a lovely poise throughout, always finding telling communication and expressive variety, while Martineau’s conjunction of alertness and refinement could not help but add to the magic….”