From the Salzburg Festival 2004
A multi-layer project exploring songs by Antonín Dvořák, as well as Liszt, Mahler, Strauss, Burleigh, Farwell, Cadman, MacDowell, Ives, Grieg and Brahms
This project includes:
- a concert program from the Salzburg Festival with:
- works of visual art and photography
- an essay by Jens Malte Fischer: “Vom Zauber der Menschlichen Stimme: Antonín Dvořák und das Liedschaffen seiner Zeit” (only in German)
- an essay by Richard Wigmore: “Antonín Dvořák and the Songs of His Time”
- all song texts in both English and German
- biographies of the performers: Thomas Hampson, Barbara Bonney, Michelle Breedt, Georg Zeppenfeld and Wolfram Rieger
Concept by Thomas Hampson