Am leuchtenden Sommermorgen
On a radiant summer morning

Dichterliebe, Op. 48 No 12 (?1865)
Robert Schumann (1810 - 1856)
Poem by Heinrich Heine Performed by
Christian Gerhaher
Gerold Huber - piano

Avant le Cinéma
Before the cinema

(from 'Quatre poemes de Apollinaire', FP. 58 No. 3) (1931) Francis Poulenc (1899-1963)
Poem by Guillaume Apollinaire
Performed by
François Le Roux
Olivier Godin - piano Film clips from
"Zéro de conduite" (Jean Vigo, 1933)
"L'Atalante" (Jean Vigo, 1934)
"Les Enfants du Paradis" (Marcel Carné, 1945)

Befreit
Released

(from 5 Lieder, Op 39 No. 4) (1898)
Richard Strauss (1864 - 1949)
Poem by Richard Dehmel Performed by
Christiane Karg
Malcolm Martineau - piano

Er ist gekommen
He Came

(from 'Liebesfrühling', Op. 12 No. 2)
(1840) Clara Schumann (1819 - 1896))
Poem by Friedrich Rückert Performed by
Christiane Karg
Malcolm Martineau - piano

Frühlingsnacht
Spring Night

(from 'Liederkreis', Op. 39 No. 12) (1840)
Schumann, Robert (1810 - 1856)
Poem: Joseph von Eichendorff
Performed by
Christian Gerhaher
Gerold Huber - piano

Ging heut’ Morgen über’s Feld
This morning I walked across the Field

(from 'Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen')
(Songs of a Wayfarer) (1883-5) Gustav Mahler (1860-1911)
Performed by
Christian Gerhaher
Gerold Huber - piano

Illalle
To Evening

op 17 No 6 (1898) Jean Sibelius (1865-1957)
Poem by Aukusti Valdemar Forsman (Koskimies) Performed by
Kim Borg
Erik Werba - Piano

L'ultima canzone
The last song

(1905) Francesco Paolo Tosti (1846 - 1916)
Poem by Francesco Cimmino
Performed by
Beniamino Gigli

Clips from films by Michelangelo Antonioni:
"L'Avventura" (1960)
"L'Eclisse" (1962)
"La Notte" (1961)

Pis’mo K.S. Stanislavskomu
Letter to K.S. Stanislavsky

(1908 Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninov (1873 - 1943) Performed by
Sergey Leiferkus
Howard Shelley - piano

Die Post
The Post

(1888) Hugo Wolf (1860-1903)
Poem by Eduard Mörike Performed by
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Gerald Moore - piano

Clips from films by Lotte Reiniger (1899-1981):
"Cinderella" (1922)
"The Little Chimney Sweep" (1954)

Now welcome somer

From 'The Parlement of Fowls' by Geoffrey Chaucer (1343-1400)

Schilflied
Reed Song

From Seven Early Songs (Sieben frühe Lieder) (c. 1905 – 1908)
Alban Berg (1885-1935)
Poem by: Nikolaus Lenau Performed by
Christiane Karg
Malcolm Martineau - piano

Shostakovich Polka

Two Pieces for String Quartet
Polka
(1931) Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) Performed by
Emerson Quartet

Shostakovich SQ2 waltz

String Quartet No. 2 in A major, Op. 68
(1944)
3. Valse (Allegro) Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) Performed by
Borodin Quartet

Clips from films by Sergei Eisenstein:
"Strike" (1925)
"October" (1928)

Shostakovich SQ8

String Quartet No. 8 in C minor (Op. 110)
Movement 1: Largo
(1960) Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) Performed by
Beethoven Quartet

Sommer
Summer

6 Einfache Lieder (Op.9, No 6)
(1913) Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897 - 1957)
Poem by Siegfried Trebitsch Performed by
Konrad Jarnot
Reinild Mees - piano

Tsarskoselskaya Statuya
A Statue at Tsarskoye Selo

Op. 57 No. 17 (1899) César Cuí (1835-1918)
Poem by Alexander Pushkin
Performed by
Dmitri Hvorostovsky
Ivari Ilja - piano

Über die Heide
Over the heath

Op. 86 No. 4 (c 1877) Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Poem by Theodor Storm Performed by
Simon Keenlyside - Baritone
Malcom Martineau - piano

Die verschwiegene Nachtigall
The Secretive Nightingale

From Sechs Lieder (Six Songs) (Op. 48 Number 4)
1884-88
By Edvard Grieg (1843 - 1907)
Poem by Karl Joseph Simrock (1802 - 1876)
after Walther von der Vogelweide (c 1170-1230)

Performed by
Chen Reiss
Charles Spencer - piano

Vesennye vody
Spring Waters

Op.14 No.11 (1896) Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninov (1873 - 1943)
Poem by Fyodor Ivanovich Tyutchev
Performed by
Dmitri Hvorostovsky
Mikhail Arkadiev - piano

Was will die einsame Träne?
Why this solitary tear?

(from 'Myrthen, Op. 25: No. 21 (1840) Robert Schumann (1810 - 1856)
Poem by Heinrich Heine Performed by
Camilla Tilling
Gerold Huber - piano

Wohl denk' ich oft
I often recall

(1897) Hugo Wolf (1860-1903)
Poem by Michelangelo Buonarotti
Performed by
Hans Hotter
Gerald Moore - piano

Clips from films by F. W. Murnau (1888-1931): "Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans" (1927)