Elisabeth Kulman and Eduard Kutrowatz have for many years now been working together, as they share an artistic passion for the unusual and unconventional which has manifested itself in pushing the traditional boundaries between various eras and genres. They aim, in their Lieder programmes, to recount new, interrelated stories, and to this end, they combine song and pieces for piano in unusual sequences, sometimes plucking verses from one song and placing them individually in a programme; carefully and deliberately choosing keys that connect a number of Lieder in order to provide a dramatic link that results in exciting, owing and sometimes imperceptible combinations.
At the 2017 Schwarzenberg Schubertiade, Elisabeth Kulman and Eduard Kutrowatz dedicated the first part of their programme entirely to Robert Schumann. The lieder cycle Frauenliebe und Leben and the op. 104 songs (after lyrics by the singer’s namesake Elisabeth Kulmann, who was born in St. Petersburg in 1808) form a common theme running through this part of the programme, though both song cycles have been broken up and are not sung in full, and are complemented by other songs
and piano pieces in the same vein.
Meditation and reflection about love and death – the central themes of almost any artistic statement – therefore form a link right from the opening piece from Schumann’s Kinderszenen through to Mondnacht, perhaps the most poignant allegory on transience and leave-taking.
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