Program 13: The ’89s
Song: Mirror of the World Radio Series
Program 13: The ’89s
To sum up the series, we look at the world in three landmark years: 1789, the year of the French Revolution; 1889, the year of the Paris Exposition; and 1989, when the Berlin Wall came down and the AIDS epidemic surged up. Music we hear ranges from the Marseillaise to Massenet to John Adams, with Leonard Bernstein as a guiding force.
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Host & Artistic Director:
Thomas Hampson
Co-Produced by the Hampsong Foundation and The WFMT Radio Network
Production Team:
Executive Producers: Thomas Hampson & Steve Robinson (The WFMT Radio Network)
Audio Producer: Carolyn Paulin (The WFMT Radio Network)
Coordinating Producer: Miriam Lewin
Project Manager: Christie Finn
Writer for The ’89s: Christie Finn, scholar, soprano, and managing director of the Hampsong Foundation
Song listings with composer / poet, performers, CD label, and CD number are listed below.
Ode an die Freiheit: Bernstein in Berlin (1989)
Clip from Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 (1822-4)
Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Text: Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805), with alterations by Leonard Bernstein
Various orchestras and performers
Leonard Bernstein, conductor
Deutsche Grammophon: 429861
All My Heart (2005)
“Greeting,” from Arias and Barcarolles (1989)
Composer: Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990)
Text: Leonard Bernstein
Deborah Voigt, soprano
Brian Zeger, piano
EMI Classics: 724355796424
Bright Sheng
“At the Hillside Where Horses are Running,” from Three Chinese Love Songs (1988)
Composer: Bright Sheng (b. 1955)
Text: Traditional
Lisa Saffer, soprano
Paul Neubauer, violin
Peter Serkin, piano
New World: 80407
The AIDS Quilt Songbook (1994)
“Walt Whitman in 1989,” from The AIDS Quilt Songbook (pub. 1993)
Composer: Chris DeBlasio (1959-1993)
Text: Perry Brass
Sanford Sylvan, baritone
David Breitman, piano
Harmonia: 907602
Passion & Pain: Adams, Haydn & Schubert
Excerpt from The Wound-Dresser (1988)
Composer: John Adams (b. 1947)
Text: Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
Thomas Hampson, baritone
New York Philharmonic
Alan Gilbert, conductor
2010 New York Philharmonic
Thomas Hampson: Arias (2005)
Clip from “Kriegslied, ‘Ich möchte wohl der Kaiser sein'” (1788)
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Text: Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim (1719-1803)
Thomas Hampson, baritone
Nikolaus Harnoncourt, conductor
Concentus Musicus Wien
Warner Classics: 62257
Icon: Elly Ameling
“The Mermaid Song” (early 1790s)
Composer: Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Text: Anne Hunter (1742-1821)
Elly Ameling, soprano
Dalton Baldwin, piano
Warner Classics: 6790732
Im Grase Lieg Ich
Excerpt from “Am Bache” (“At the Brook”) (pub. 1789)
Composer: C. P. E. Bach (1714-1788)
Text: Friedrich Leopold, Graf zu Stolberg-Stolberg (1750-1819)
Andrea Chudak, soprano
Lidiya Naumova, guitar
Antes Edition: BM31.9254
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau: Early Recordings on Deutsche Grammophon
“Einschränkung” (1796)
“Mit Mädeln sich vertragen,” from Claudine von Villa Bella (1790-2)
Composer: Johann Friedrich Reichardt (1752-1814)
Text: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, baritone
Jörg Demus, accompaniment
Deutsche Grammophon: 000480502
Plácido Domingo: Artist Portrait
Clip from “La Marseillaise” (“The Marseillaise”) (1792, arr. 1830)
Composer: Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisle (1760–1836), arr. Hector Berlioz (1803-1869)
Plácido Domingo, tenor
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Chicago Symphony Chorus
Daniel Barenboim, conductor
Warner Classics: 49707
Teldec: 825646658114
Ivre d’Amour: Massenet Songs
“Enchantement!” (1889)
Composer: Jules Massenet (1842-1912)
Text: Jules Ruelle
Sally Silver, soprano
Richard Bonynge, piano
Guild: 7393
Marilyn Horne: The Complete Decca Recitals (2008)
“La Flûte de Pan” (“The Flute of Pan”), from Chansons de Bilitis (1899)
Composer: Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
Text: Pierre Louÿs (1870-1925)
Marilyn Horne, mezzo soprano
Martin Katz, piano
Decca: 001089302
Love is Everywhere: Songs of Margaret Ruthven Lang, Vol. 1 (2011)
“Ojalá” (1889)
Composer: Margaret Ruthven Lang (1867-1972)
Text: George Eliot (1819-1880)
Donald George, tenor
Lucy Mauro, piano (Duo Drama)
Delos: DE3407
Love Songs (2000)
“Ó, naší lásce nekvete,” from Písně milostné, Op. 83
Composer: Antonín Dvořák (1841-1904)
Text: Gustav Pfleger-Moravský (1833-1875)
Magdalena Kozená, mezzo soprano
Graham Johnson, piano
Deutsche Grammophon: 463472
Wolf: 22 Lieder
“In dem Schatten meiner Locken” (“In the Shadow of my Curls”), from Spanisches Liederbuch (weltliche Lieder)
Composer: Hugo Wolf (1860-1903)
Text: Various, trans. from Spanish into German
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, mezzo soprano
Wilhelm Furtwängler, piano
EMI Classics Références: 567570
Lucia Popp: The Unforgotten
“Scheiden und Meiden” (“Parting and Separation”), from Des Knaben Wunderhorn (The Youth’s Magic Horn)
(this particular song composed 1889)
Composer: Gustav Mahler (1860-1911)
Text: Des Knaben Wunderhorn
Lucia Popp, soprano
Geoffrey Parsons, piano
Acanta/Pilz: 233353
Mahler: Songs Of A Wayfarer, etc. (1990)
Clip of “Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen” (“I am no longer of the world”), from Rückert Lieder
(this particular song composed 1901)
Composer: Gustav Mahler (1860-1911)
Text: Friedrich Rückert (1788-1866)
Thomas Hampson, baritone
Leonard Bernstein, conductor
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Deutsche Grammophon: 431682
