Melodramas with Anja Silja

Program Examples

 

Anja Silja (recitation) and Andrej Hoteev (piano)

 

Melodramas and Piano Recital

 

1."Mussorgsky and the word"

 

 

Mussorgsky. "Pictures at an Exhibition" - manuscript version of 06/22/1874

 

Tschaikovsky "Ophelia melodrama"

Rebikov - 3 melodramas by Heyne, de Musset and Apukhtin

Arensky-Turgenev-2 melodramas:

"Nymphs"

"What was once so beautiful, so fresh roses,"

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2) "Wagner for Mathilde & Cosima"

 

Wagner. Note letter for Mathilde Wesendonck for Piano

Wagner. "Wesendonck" Sonata for Piano in A flat major, WWV 85) - Andrey Hoteev, Piano

 

Schubert, Schumann and Nietzsche. Melodramas and ballads.

Anja Silja, speaking voice and Andrej Hoteev, Piano

 

Wagner. Elegy for Cosima, 3 album pages and "Black Swans" for piano Andrej Hoteev, Piano

Wagner, Liszt, Rich. Strauss. Melodramas and ballads.

Anja Silja, speaking voice and Andrej Hoteev, Piano

 

 

3) "Rilke and Russia"

 

Wainberg. Piano sonata No.1 "War sonata" 1940

Ullmann, Viktor- Rainer Maria Rilke: from " Die Weise von Liebe und Tod

des Cornets Christoph Rilke " Melodramas 1944

 

Tschaikovsky. From "The Seasons", op.37b

Nr10-October: Autumn Song

No. 6 June: Barcarolle

6 Russian Preludes:

1.Skrjabin., Op.11 No.5 in D major

2-4 Shostakovich. From Op 34:

No.13 in F sharp major: Moderato;

No.14 in E flat minor: Adagio;

No.17 A flat major: Largo

5.Rachmaninov.op32Nr.5 G major

6.Prokofiev.op.12Nr.7 C major

Andrej Hoteev, Piano

 

Arensky. Melodramas by Turgenev "poems in prose".:

Op.68Nr. 3 "Nymphs"

Op.68Nr.1 "What was once so beautiful, so fresh roses," ...

Anja Silja, Sprechsimme and Andrej Hoteev, piano.

 

4. "Scandinavian"

 

 

Grieg. Lyric Pieces for Piano.

Sibelius. Melodramas.

 

Sibelius. Lyric Pieces (incl. Valse triste)

Grieg "Bergliot" (Bergliots dirge) melodrama