Chamber Concert

“Genius and Madness”

Saturday

June 2024

8:00 pm

Munich, Munich Residence, Max Joseph Saal

Chamber concert

Sunday

June 2024

6:00 pm

Tutzing, Evangelische Akademie

Chamber concert

Programme

Ludwig van Beethoven

Variations for Piano Trio in E flat major, op. 44

Hugo Wolf

Songs after Mörike and Goethe for soprano and piano

Ludwig van Beethoven

Irish Songs for Voice and Piano Trio, WoO 152-154

(Selection)

Interval

Carlo Gesualdo

“Moro, lasso, al mio duolo”

Robert Schumann

Six Songs, op. 107

Robert Schumann

Klaviertrio Nr. 1 d-Moll op. 63

Ernest Chausson

“Chanson perpétuelle” for soprano and piano, op. 37

Performers

Lydia Teuscher soprano

Lukas Maria Kuen piano

Korbinian Altenberger violin

Lorenz Chen violin

Giovanni Menna viola

Samuel Lutzker violoncello

Information about the programme

It is a popular romantic theme: the fine line between genius and madness. In Beethoven’s case, all one needs to do is look at the portrait of the agitated artist with tangled hair and crazy eyes, who jots his notes down on paper in a manic creative frenzy and in the face of impending deafness. Wolf was hospitalized twice – and died in the clinic. When Schumann was admitted to Endenich, “melancholy with delusion” was noted as a diagnosis in the admission book. And the Italian Renaissance prince Carlo Gesualdo was not only a gifted composer, but very probably also a murderer. In the chromatic descent at the end of his madrigal, we seem to hear the agony of a guilty man tormented by remorse. The result? Insanely brilliant music!