Boswil Master Concert - Marina Viotti & Jan Schultsz

Master concert VI

All of Vienna is in Rossini fever. The whole world was singing his melodies in 1817. A young generation of musicians is also affected, although they are not uncritical. A young composer says to himself: "I can do something like that!" He even writes overtures in the Italian style, albeit in his own way, because his name is Franz Schubert. He, too, only five years younger than Gioachino Rossini, aspired to opera and it can be useful to have a few Italian idioms in his musical language, but even there he remains himself. Incidentally, it is often claimed that the Viennese Rossini boom unfortunately hindered Schubert's operatic career. It may be true that his stage works were neglected and only rediscovered in recent decades, but what a wealth of melodies they revealed! And so it is more than revealing when the Swiss-French mezzo-soprano Marina Viotti juxtaposes and perhaps even contrasts songs by Rossini and Schubert. After all, the Italian composer also wrote some wonderful canzoni. The singer, who recently performed at the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in Paris, will be accompanied by Jan Schultsz.

Marina Viotti, mezzo-soprano
Jan Schultsz, piano

Program:
A juxtaposition of song compositions by Schubert and Rossini:
Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868)
Ritournelle Gothique, Petit gargouillement, La gita in gondola, L'âme délaissé, Canzonetta: La Vénitienne

Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
4 canzoni D688, Première Communion, Ave Maria, Petite Caprice, La chanson du bébé, L'amour à Pekin, A Grenade, Canzonetta Spagnuola

Boswil artists' talk 4.15 pm
Moderated by Charlotte Lorenz, Project Management, Künstlerhaus Boswil


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