PCM 6 - 21.08.17: Christiane Karg, Malcolm Martineau

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

13:00 Monday 21 August 2017
Cadogan Hall

Duparc: L'invitation au voyage
Guridi: Seis canciones castellanas
Ravel: Cinq melodies populaires grecques
Hahn: Études latines - Lydé; Vile potabis; Tyndaris
Koechlin: Shéhérazade - Chanson d'Engaddi; La chanson d'Ishak de Moussoul; Le voyage
Poulenc: Voyage à Paris; Deux mélodies de Guillaume Apollinaire; Hôtel

Christiane Karg (soprano)
Malcolm Martineau (piano)

With triumphant performances for the Royal Opera and Glyndebourne behind her, rising German soprano Christiane Karg now makes her Proms debut. She is joined by pianist Malcolm Martineau for a musical voyage in song. They visit Greece in the heady love songs of Ravel's 'Greek popular songs', the exotic East in Koechlin's Shéhérazade settings and Spain in Guridi's darkly beautiful Castilian songs, before heading for Paris in the jaunty company of Francis Poulenc.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

I haven't heard Christiane Karg in a more intimate musical setting.

[doversoul1]

I haven't heard Christiane Karg in a more intimate musical setting.

Is this intimate enough?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b091w2kn

[gurnemanz]

I've earmarked this one

[bluestateprommer]

Excellent recital by CK and MM, with the bonus that CK is quite charming in her quick chit-chat with Petroc. MM also gets a word in, so never fear there. Fortunately, texts for most of the songs (except the Koechlin) are accessible via various albums from the Hyperion website. The encore (mild spoiler alert) is archived in the Forum Calendar. Definitely worth a visit if you missed it the 1st time.