Sun, November 22nd, 2026
Forward Festival: Schumannliebe 2
Concert title
Forward Festival: Schumannliebe 2
Date
Sun 22.11.2026
Start of the concert
16:30
Contributors
Name of the ensemble
Ensemble of the Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra (LFCO)
Soloists
Christian Jost, conductor (Jost)
Jörg Widmann, conductor (Widmann)
Fatma Said, soprano
Matthias Goerne, baritone
Jörg Widmann, conductor (Widmann)
Fatma Said, soprano
Matthias Goerne, baritone
program
Robert Schumann's Dichterliebe tells the story of a love. It blossoms hopefully "in the beautiful month of May" and ends in bitter disappointment. For Christian Jost, these sixteen Heine settings are "imaginations of a torn soul made audible," for Jörg Widmann "the highest achievement ever produced in the combination of language and music." Both have ventured into new compositions of the famous song cycle and translated it into the present day in very different ways. Jost adds his own interludes to Schumann's melodies, embedding them "like islands" in a "sonic stream of the unconscious." Widmann stays closer to the original, creating motivic connections between the individual songs and unfolding his own new sound world with his original instrumentation, advanced playing techniques, and a richly textured percussion section. Later in the evening, the German pianist Johanna Summer will follow up with another spontaneous echo of Dichterliebe...
Performers:
Ensemble of the Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra (LFCO)
Christian Jost, conductor
Jörg Widmann, conductor
Fatma Said, soprano
Matthias Goerne, baritone
Program:
Christian Jost (*1963)
Dichterliebe for soprano and ensemble, after Robert Schumann's Dichterliebe op. 48
Jörg Widmann (*1973)
Schumannliebe for baritone and ensemble. Instrumentation of Robert Schumann's Dichterliebe op. 48
Performers:
Ensemble of the Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra (LFCO)
Christian Jost, conductor
Jörg Widmann, conductor
Fatma Said, soprano
Matthias Goerne, baritone
Program:
Christian Jost (*1963)
Dichterliebe for soprano and ensemble, after Robert Schumann's Dichterliebe op. 48
Jörg Widmann (*1973)
Schumannliebe for baritone and ensemble. Instrumentation of Robert Schumann's Dichterliebe op. 48
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