Nights in Paris and Poets, Knights & Travellers

Following on from last year's successful edition, offers Podium 1919 on Sunday 15 March at 15:00, guests will enjoy a special recital by students of Codarts Rotterdam. Members of Vrienden van het Lied are also welcome at this concert. Two young duos will each take us through a short but impressive programme that afternoon.

At Noches en Paris - Nights in Paris, performed by mezzo-soprano Edurne Ruiz Garcia and pianist Irene Martínez de las Muelas, we experience the nocturnal atmospheres of Paris in all its facets. In Pauline Viardot's music, for instance, we feel the loneliness of the night, when the soul and love of the one left behind slowly disappear in the grave of his beloved, and the angel leaves him alone on earth. Yet spring shines as a symbol of hope and new life.

Edurne and Irene's programme will also include works by Hector Berlioz and Manuel de Falla.

Baritone Guyon Mingelen and pianist Hugo Maillé take us on a journey in their programme Poets, Knights and Travellers.

About Trois mélodies on poems by Verlaine, Debussy's friend, the writer Pierre Louÿs, said that these liederen are ‘verlainiennes jusqu'au bout des croches’, Verlainian to the last eighth note. And they have the same qualities as the poet: musicality, spirituality, melancholy and simplicity.

At Don Quixote a Dulcinée by Ravel, we are introduced to a knight as lover, holy warrior and drinker. And finally, we travel in Songs of Travel by Vaughan Williams with a wanderer who even looks ahead to his final journey, beyond the grave.