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Music for A While

Hosted by the Consul of the Vienna Classical Music Group
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Thu 12 Nov 19:00 - 20:30

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Baroque Love Songs

Hartmut SCHULZ (baritone), Raphaël BEREAU (guitar)

Love, longing, hope and disappointment – for centuries, these have provided the inspiration for some of the most beautiful songs in the history of music. And it is not uncommon for happiness and despair to lie surprisingly close together.

Hartmut Schulz (baritone) and Raphaël Bereau (guitar) invite you on a musical journey through three centuries. It begins with the melancholic English art song tradition of Henry Purcell and John Dowland, moves on to the passionate and at times tongue-in-cheek love laments of Italian Baroque composers, and culminates in the elegant, soulful songs of the guitar virtuoso Mauro Giuliani.

In between, the guitar also takes centre stage as a solo instrument. An evening full of musical declarations of love – and the realisation that love has always had its very own difficulties.