Ellen Valkenburg (soprano), Florian Just (baritone) and Maurice Lammerts van Bueren (piano)

Auch kleine Dinge können uns entzücken.

With these slightly ironic-words, Wolf begins his impressive cycle of short songs set to translations of Tuscan rispetti: Das Italienische Liederbuch.
These masterpieces on scale - some songs last less than a minute - are all about love, and in far from all cases that equals sweet romance ... Everyday street scenes are interspersed with desperate cries of longing, jealous bickering and brisk rejections. Also, a serenade in love sometimes turns out to sound quite false and the ladies not infrequently have their trousers on.
Ellen Valkenburg, Florian Just and Maurice Lammerts van Bueren select the most beautiful songs from this level musical soap opera and string them together in a dazzling scenic performance. Complementing this mini opera are beautiful French and German duets by Mozart, Mendelssohn, Fauré and Berlioz, among others. The concert concludes with an out-of-the-box encore.

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