Benjamin Appl – Sound of Silence

Witness a voice that ‘belongs to the last of the old great masters of song’ (Süddeutsche Zeitung).

Internationally acclaimed baritone Benjamin Appl is celebrated for a voice that ‘belongs to the last of the old great masters of song’ (Süddeutsche Zeitung). A former BBC New Generation Artist (2014-16) and Wigmore Hall Emerging Artist, Benjamin was named Gramophone Award Young Artist of the Year in 2016. Following captivating performances at Ravinia, Schubertiade Schwarzenberg, the Elbphilharmonie, and Carnegie Hall, Appl brings his artistry to the intimate surrounds of the Primrose Potter Salon.

Joined by renowned English pianist Sholto Kynoch, the duo presents a program that explores silence and introspection. At its heart is Schumann’s Liederkreis, Op.39, which sets poems by Joseph von Eichendorff, with silence and a longing for peace felt far beyond the song ‘Die Stille’ (‘The Silence’). Songs by Schubert thread through the evening, alongside Gregorian chant, the Baroque masters Monteverdi, Bach and Stölzel, and songs by Mendelssohn, Wolf, Strauss, Ives and MacMillan.

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Artist

Benjamin Appl baritone

Program

Gregorian Chant
Domine, exaudi

Franz Schubert (words by Matthias Claudius)
Der Tod und das Mädchen (Death and the Maiden) D.531

Claudio Monteverdi
Tu se’ morta (from L’Orfeo)

Franz Schubert
Ins stille Land (Into the Silent Land) (Schiller) D.403

Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel 
Bist du bei mir (If you are with me), BWV 508

Franz Schubert (words by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
Meeres Stille (Calm Sea) D.216

Robert Schumann (words by Eichendorff)
Liederkreis, Op.39
In der Fremde
Intermezzo
Waldesgespräch
Die Stille
Mondnacht
Schöne Fremde
Auf einer Burg
In der Fremde
Wehmut
Zwielicht
Im Walde
Frühlingsnacht

Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy 
Lieder ohne Worte (Songs Without Words)
Andante Espressivo in E-flat Op.30. No.1

Hugo Wolf (words by Paul Heyse)
Wir haben beide lange Zeit geschwiegen (We have both been silent a long time)

Franz Schubert
Der Einsame (The Lonely One) D.800 

Hugo Wolf
Begegnung (Encounter) (words by Eduard Mörike)
Verschwiegene Liebe (Silent Love) (words by Joseph von Eichendorff) 
Schlafendes Jesuskind (The Sleeping Christ-Child) (words by Eduard Mörike)

Franz Schubert (words by Johann Friedrich Rochlitz)
An die Laute (To the Lute) D.905

Charles Ives
The Circus Band
Memories A and B

Franz Schubert (words by Heinrich Heine)
Der Doppelgänger D.957: No.13

James MacMillan (words by William Soutar)
The Children

Richard Strauss (words by John Henry Mackay)
Morgen (Tomorrow)