Zurück zur WebsiteEma Nikolovska. Sean Shibe
Ema Nikolovska and Sean Shibe are equal partners in their dialog: The Canadian-Macedonian mezzo-soprano can already look back on a stellar career and prestigious competition prizes. However, the graduate of the Heidelberger Frühling Liedakademie doesn't just go straight ahead, she likes to think outside the box, driven by a passion to rethink the classical concert format so as not to lose touch with the present. She devises originally curated concert programs with a repertoire that knows no limitations.
She has found a brother in spirit in the Scottish guitarist Sean Shibe, whose classical and electric guitar repertoire ranges from the Middle Ages to the present day. Together, they embark on a tour of musical and intellectual history in the footsteps of the enigmatic figure of Orlando. The journey ranges from Ariosto's "Orlando Furioso" to Virginia Woolf, touches on Schubert's "Winterreise" and honors the festival's focus on Brahms with three songs, including "Da unten im Tale", a wistful folk song that Brahms first set for three-part choir, then for four-part choir and only finally for solo voice. In the present, the programme arrives with commissioned compositions by Sasha Scott and Cassandra Miller and concludes, quite naturally, briefly with songs by Laurie Anderson and Bob Dylan. Bach's Two-Part Inventions provide the reassuring central theme.
Concert with intermission.
The concert will be recorded by SWR Kultur and broadcast in the cultural program.
Ema Nikolovska
Mezzo-soprano
Sean Shibe
Guitar and electric guitar
Jules Massenet
O Souverain, ô Juge, ô Père
(from: Le Cid)
John Dowland
Praeludium for guitar
Come again, sweet love doth now invite
Thinkst though then by thy feigning
Come, heavy sleep
Sasha Scott
1000 pieces of you
(German premiere, commissioned by Richard Cauldwell and the Wigmore Hall)
Detlef Glanert
Island of fragrances
(from: 15 old songs to Orlando furioso by Ariost after texts by Margareth Obexer and Angela di Ciriaco-Sussdorff)
Thomas Adès
Blanca
(from: The Exterminating Angel)
Detlev Glanert
Witches' Sabbath
(from: 15 old songs to Orlando furioso by Ariost after texts by Margareth Obexer and Angela di Ciriaco-Sussdorff)
Franz Schubert
Loneliness
(from: Winterreise)
Detlef Glanert
Song of melancholy
(from: 15 old songs to Orlando furioso by Ariost after texts by Margareth Obexer and Angela di Ciriaco-Sussdorff)
Thomas Adès
Habañera
(from: The Exterminating Angel)
Detlef Glanert
Orlando's dream
Song of the sea
The Hippogryph
(from: 15 old songs to Orlando furioso by Ariost after texts by Margareth Obexer and Angela di Ciriaco-Sussdorff)
Cassandra Miller
It Reminded Me of the Truth
(German premiere, commissioned by Borletti-Buitoni Trust)
Hans Abrahamsen
See the limpid spring
(from: Two Inger Christensen Songs)
Franz Schubert
So let me shine, D 877
(from: Mignon Lieder)
John Dowland
Orlando Sleepeth for guitar
Johannes Brahms
Da unten im Tale
Pauline Viardot
Aimez-moi
Bob Dylan
Masters of War
Laurie Anderson
O Superman
(Cover version by Sahsa Scott/ Ema Nikolovska/ Sean Shibe)
