Piotr Beczała, Tenor; Helmut Deutsch, Piano at Carnegie Hall (Site)
Monday December 9, 8:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Performers
Piotr Beczała, Tenor
Helmut Deutsch, Piano
Tenor Piotr Beczała is one of opera’s brightest stars. Across an enormous dynamic and stylistic range, he boasts “the kind of voice you want to hang medals on” (Opera News)—a “free and gleaming tenor” that has incredibly “grown in weight and color with the years” (New York Classical Review). He is renowned for breathing new life into numerous iconic roles—the Metropolitan Opera’s 2023 Lohengrin production was called “essential viewing on account of [his] stupendously secure rendition” (The New York Times). Experience one of the world’s most luminous singers in a recital of songs by Tchaikovsky, Grieg, Karłowicz, R. Schumann, and Rachmaninoff with pianist Helmut Deutsch.
Program
TCHAIKOVSKY “It Was in the Early Spring,” Op. 38, No. 2
TCHAIKOVSKY “Why?,” Op. 6, No. 5
TCHAIKOVSKY “Amid the din of the ball,” Op. 38, No. 3
TCHAIKOVSKY “So what, then?,” Op. 16, No. 5
TCHAIKOVSKY “I should like in a single word”
TCHAIKOVSKY “Amid Sombre Days,” Op. 73, No. 5
TCHAIKOVSKY “The Sun has Set,” Op. 73, No. 4
TCHAIKOVSKY “The mild stars shone for us,” Op. 60, No. 12
TCHAIKOVSKY “Does the day reign?,” Op. 47, No. 6
GRIEG “Gruss,” Op. 48, No. 1
GRIEG “Dereinst, Gedanke mein,” Op. 48, No. 2
GRIEG “Zur Rosenzeit,” Op. 48, No. 5
GRIEG “Ich liebe dich,” Op. 5, No. 3
GRIEG “Ein Traum,” Op. 48, No. 6
KARŁOWICZ “It Goes Over the Fields,” Op. 3, No. 3
KARŁOWICZ “In the Calm of the Evening,” Op. 3, No. 8
KARŁOWICZ “The Enchanted Princess,” Op. 3, No. 10
KARŁOWICZ “I Remember Quiet, Clear Golden Days,” Op. 1, No. 5
R. SCHUMANN “Wanderlied,” Op. 35, No. 3
R. SCHUMANN “Der Nussbaum,” Op. 25, No. 3
R. SCHUMANN “Die Lotosblume,” Op. 25, No. 7
R. SCHUMANN “Jasminenstrauch,”, Op. 27, No. 4
R. SCHUMANN “Du bist wie eine Blume,” Op. 25, No. 24
R. SCHUMANN “Widmung,” Op. 25, No. 1
RACHMANINOFF Six Romances, Op. 4