The Book of the Hanging Gardens

RAPSOVOCE PERFORMANCE COLLECTIVE brings together pianist Nancy Loo, baritone Caleb Woo and soprano Jasmine Law, presenting a German song recital of Arnold Schoenberg’s Das Buch der Hängenden Gärten (The Book of the Hanging Gardens), Op. 15, and selections by Johannes Brahms, whom Schoenberg hailed as a great progressive, a great innovator in the realm of musical language.

The Book of the Hanging Gardens, Op. 15, is Schoenberg’s fifteen-part song cycle composed between 1908 and 1909, set to the poems of Stefan George. It is the first composition in Schoenberg’s atonal period. The poems of the ‘Hanging Gardens’ are all miniatures, elliptically relating the progress of an intense, ultimately doomed love-affair between two young lovers, ending with the woman’s departure and the disintegration of the garden.

Performers:
Jasmine Law 羅曉晴 (soprano)
Caleb Woo 胡永正 (baritone)
Nancy Loo 羅乃新 (piano)

Programme:
Johannes Brahms:
Am Sonntag Morgen Op. 49 No. 1
Feldeinsamkeit Op. 86 No. 6
Vier ernste Gesänge Op. 121
Arnold Schoenberg:
Das Buch der hängenden Gärten Op. 15

浪漫時期作曲家布拉姆斯被奧地利作曲家荀伯克譽為偉大的音樂語言創新者，影響了很多他的早期作品。荀伯克於1908-1909年間取材自德國詩人喬治·斯特凡的詩，創作出由十五首歌曲組成的聯篇歌曲《伊甸之書，作品編號十五》，是荀伯克的無調性作曲時期的第一個作品。《伊甸之書》講述一對年輕戀人之間的戀愛、進展，其中一人的離去和像伊甸園一般美的花園最後解體結束。

著名鋼琴家羅乃新將與年輕歌唱家羅曉晴及胡永正合作，呈現這套鮮有在本地音樂會舞台上出現的二十世紀經典曲目，以及布拉姆斯的聲樂作品。

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The Book of the Hanging Gardens
RapsoVoce Performance Collective
When: 7:30pm, 22 August, 2015
Where: HKAPA, Recital Hall
Tickets: $180 from HKTicketing