Recital with Stephanie Pfeffer (Soprano) und Jens Fuhr (Piano)

Her recitals tell their own stories, says the singer. Her latest program is about love, about the joys and suffering that go with it - and thus about life itself. This has a particularly touching effect in two songs from the cycle "Das Rot" by Wolfgang Rihm, the 70-year-old celebrated Germans. But you can also discover, even learn to love, the Englishman Roger Quilter, a late romantic whose songs Stephanie Pfeffer appreciates the close interlocking of text and music.

The artists:

Stephanie Pfeffer (soprano)
The Austrian soprano completed both her soloist and concert diplomas with distinction at the Zurich University of the Arts. At the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester she was also awarded the conservatory's highest honor, the RNCM Gold Medal. Stephanie Pfeffer was a finalist in the "Das Lied" competition in Berlin and won the "Brigitte Fassbaender Award" for song interpretation, the "Alexander Young Award" and the "Chris Petty English Song Prize". The soprano has worked with conductors such as Philippe Herreweghe, Ton Koopman and David Zinman, the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich, the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and the chamber orchestra L'arpa festante. In 2013 she founded the Ensemble Pícaro, which performs early music in unusual concert cycles. In 2019 her first solo CD with songs by Schubert, Britten and Rihm was released.
www.stephaniepfeffer.at

Jens Fuhr (piano)
Jens Fuhr was a student of Irwin Gage's song master class in Zurich, which he graduated with distinction. He appeared in recitals at the Zurich Opera House, the Gran Teatre del Liceu Barcelona, ​​the National Theater Mannheim, the Vienna Musikverein, the Hugo Wolf Society Stuttgart and the "Freunde des Lied" Zurich. The pianist has appeared at the Swiss Chamber Concerts, the Munich Biennale, the Kasseler Musiktage and the Eclat Festival in Stuttgart. With the co-creative ensemble tō, Jens Fuhr tests experimental concert formats in the interplay of music, dance and visual arts. He published song CDs together with Stephanie Pfeffer, the soprano Silke Kaiser and the baritone Markus Eiche. His solo album with night pieces for piano was released this year under the title Nottōrno. Jens Fuhr has been teaching at the Zurich University of the Arts since 1999.
www.jensfuhr.com

The program in detail

Paul Hindemith (1895-1963):
Who ever knew how to grasp life correctly (A. von Platen, 1942)

Hugo Wolf (1860-1903):
Songs based on poems by Eduard Mörike (1888) • Encounter
• A girl's first love song
• The abandoned maid
• Insatiable love

Gustav Holst (1874-1934):
Six Songs op. 16 (1903/04)
• Calm is the Morn (Alfred Tennyson)
• My True Love Hath My Heart (Philip Sidney)
• Weep You No More (Anonymous, 16th c.)
• Lovely kind, and kindly loving (Nicholas Brenton) • Cradle song (William Blake)
• Peace (Alfred Henry Hyatt)

Wolfgang Rihm (*1952):
Das Rot. Six poems by Karoline von Günderrode (1990)
• 1. Hochroth
• 4. The boy's evening greeting

Robert Schumann (1810-1856):
Six songs op. 107 (1851/52)
• 1. Heartbreak (Titus Ullrich)
• 3. The Gardener (Eduard Mörike)
• 4. The Spinner (Paul Heyse)
• 6. Evening Song (Gottfried Kinkel)

Roger Quilter (1877-1953):
Seven Elizabethan Lyrics op. 12 (1908)
• 2. My Life's Delight (Thomas Campion)
• 1. Weep You No More (Anonymous, 16th c.)
• 7th Fair House of Joy (Anonymous)

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Administrative Notes

Costs (per person): CHF 60.-- (free for membership sponsors and friends).
Students and trainees (only with a valid ID): CHF 10.--
The recital will be preceded at 5:30 p.m. by the opening of the exhibition "What Color is Happiness?" by artist Myriam Ramundo.