Après leur première parisienne en janvier dernier, dont le programme Migrations fut chaleureusement salué, la soprano islandaise Álfheiður Erla Guðmundsdóttir et le pianiste indo-américain Kunal Lahiry reviennent à l'Athénée dans un programme lyrique nocturnal autour des œuvres de George Crumb, Jean Sibelius, Nico Muhly et Hallgrímur Helgason.

Programme

George Crumb (1929–2022)

Apparition

Dark mother always gliding near with soft feet

The night in silence under many a star

Jean Sibelius (1865–1957)

Norden [The North] (Six Songs, Op. 90)

Demanten på marssnön [The Diamond on the March Snow] (Six Songs, Op. 36)

George Crumb (1929–2022)

When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom’d (Apparition)

Wind elegy (Three early songs)

Jean Sibelius (1865–1957)

Var det en dröm? [Was It a Dream?] (Five Songs, Op. 37)

George Crumb (1929–2022)

Vocalise 1 : Summer sounds (Apparition)

Jean Sibelius (1865–1957)

Im Feld ein Mädchen singt [In the Field a Maiden Sings] (Six Songs, Op. 50)

George Crumb (1929–2022)

Vocalise 3: Death carol (Apparition)

Nico Muhly (1981)

Sá ég svani [I Saw Swans]

George Crumb (1929–2022)

Three early songs

Night

Let it be forgotten

Jean Sibelius (1865–1957)

Arioso, Op. 3

Hallgrímur Helgason (1914–1994)

Kvöldsöngur [Evening Song]

George Crumb (1929–2022)

Apparition

Vocalise 2: Invocation

Approach strong deliverers!

Come lovely and soothing death

The night in silence under many a star