Explore the theme of passion across the Courtauld’s collections in this short programme of music in collaboration with Barbara Höfling and singers from the German Choir of London. We consider romantic passion, the concept of passion in Christianity, the place of passion in the contract marriages of the Renaissance, passion and prostitution, and passion and insanity.
Programme
Anon/Klimek:I will give my love an apple
Aleotti: Baciai per haver vita
Gabrieli, Maria Magdalene
Gesualdo: Dolcissimo sospiro
Haydn, Die Harmonie in der Ehe
Mahler/Gottwald, die zwei blauen Augen (Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen)
Ravel, Ronde (Trois Chansons)
Wolf/Höfling, Verborgenheit
