AEGERI CONCERTS: Liederabend Sarah Wegener, Sopran & Götz Payer, Klavier

PROGRAM

Joseph Marx (1882 - 1964): Has love touched you?

Erich Korngold (1897 - 1957): Glückwunsch (Op. 38 no.1) - Was du mir bist? (Op. 22 no.1) from Drei Lieder - Lied vom Glück (from 'Die stumme Serenade') (Op. 36)

Max Reger (1873 - 1916): Happiness enough (Op. 37 no.3)

Roger Quilter (1877 - 1953): Now sleeps the crimson petal (Op. 3 no.2)

Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872 - 1958): Silent Noon from The House of Life

Richard Strauss (1864 - 1949):

Found (Op. 56 no.1)

Secret Request (Op. 27 no.3)

Encounter (TrV98)

Die Verschwiegenen (Op. 10 no.6) from 8 poems from 'Letzte Blätter'

Ständchen (Op. 17 no.2) from Six Songs Op.17

Dream through the twilight (Op. 29 no.1)

The Night (Op. 10 no.3) from 8 Poems from 'Last Leaves'

The Georgine (Op. 10 no.4) from 8 poems from 'Last Leaves'

Rest, my soul! (Op. 27 no.1)

Tomorrow! (Op. 27 no.4)

Liberated (Op. 39 no.4)
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Singing is the art of transforming feelings into sound. The song is one of the most intimate and original forms of musical expression. It is familiar to all cultures and has constantly evolved. In the age of artificial intelligence, the song takes on a whole new meaning - as a direct human expression of identity, emotions and real lived experiences.
Did you know that singing makes you happy?
Sarah Wegener & Götz Payer take us into the joyful world of song.

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Sarah Wegener, soprano

Sarah Wegener imbues every role with captivating intensity. With her warm timbre, she has caused a sensation with orchestral songs by Strauss under Mariss Jansons and Vladimir Jurowski, Strauss' Four Last Songs under Daniel Harding and Mahler's 8th Symphony under Kirill Petrenko, Vasily Petrenko, James Conlon, Eliahu Inbal and Kent Nagano. Her "wonderfully luminous, powerful and colorful voice" (FAZ) also proves her to be a first-class Lied interpreter, as can be heard on her highly acclaimed CDs "Into the Deepest Sea" and "Zueignung". A highlight of the past season was her successful role debut as Sieglinde; she appeared in concert performances of Wagner's Walküre with the Dresden Festival Orchestra and Concerto Köln under the direction of Kent Nagano in Prague, Amsterdam, Cologne, Hamburg, Dresden and Lucerne.

Strauss, Mahler and Wagner will also take center stage for Sarah Wegener in the 2024/25 season: she returns to the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra with the Four Last Songs, which she will perform under Domingo Hindoyan.
Sarah Wegener will be heard in Mahler's Symphony No. 8 at the Prague Spring Festival, and a semi-staged performance of the work will take her to the London Philharmonic Orchestra under Edward Gardner. As Sieglinde, she can be heard again in Act 1 of Die Walküre with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra and Petr Popelka in Trieste and with the Orquesta de València and Alexander Liebreich. She also performs Dvořák's Stabat Mater with the MDR Symphony Orchestra and the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich and sings Zemlinsky's Lyric Symphony, the latter again in Valencia. She has given recitals at the Oxford International Song Festival and at the Cologne Philharmonie.

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Götz Payer has given concerts with more than 80 singers, including Sarah Wegener, Esther Dierkes, Samantha Gaul, KS Helene Schneiderman, Angela Brower, Thilo Dahlmann, Cornelius Hauptmann, Johannes Held, Julian Prégardien and others.

His chamber music partners have included the King's Singers, the Ensemble Cantissimo and the Amaryllis Quartet. Concerts have taken him to festivals and concert halls in Europe, Asia and the USA. These have included the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, the Rheingau Music Festival, the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival, the European Music Festival Stuttgart, the Bach Festival Leipzig, the Menuhin Festival Gstaad, the Atlanta Opera, the Tonhalle Zurich, the Oji Hall Tokyo, the Theater Wladiwostock, the Oxford International Song Festival, the Hugo Wolf Academy Stuttgart, the Shizuoka Hall, the Schloss Leopoldskron Salzburg, the Schloss Nymphenburg, the Opera Lille, the Chigiana Siena, the Elbphilharmonie, the Frankfurt Opera and the Philharmonie Köln.

Götz Payer taught Lied interpretation at the conservatories in Cologne and Frankfurt am Main. In 2022, he was appointed Professor of Lied at the State University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart. He has been invited to give masterclasses in France, Italy, Russia and Germany and is co-founder of the Liedakademie Sindelfingen.

An important concern of Götz Payer is his voluntary commitment to musical projects on the topics of "Music for people with dementia", "Singing with and for children" and "Remembering the victims of the Holocaust&".

Artist https://www.sarah-wegener.de/ https://www.goetzpayer.com/


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