Past Events

Divan of Song : Stationen / Stages

April 8th 2017
Heidelberg Alte Aula - Old University Heidelberger Frühling | Neuland.Lied

Artists

Composers

Poets

  • Hans Bethge
  • Kitazono Katsue
  • Basho
  • Berthold Brecht
  • Li Pai
  • Xuan Xue Fei
  • Juhun Joo
  • Friedrich Rückert
  • Marianne von Willemer
  • Tristan Klingsor
  • Klabund
  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Sungbok Lee
  • Sangbyeong Cheon
  • Avram Shlonsky
  • Kamel Ayoub
  • Jaroslaw Iwaszkiewicz
  • Dschalal ad-Din ar-Rumi
  • Heinrich Heine
  • Hafez (Muhammad Sams ad-Din)
  • Leconte de Lisle
  • Tomas Tranströmer
  • Dao Bei
  • Friedrich von Schiller
  • Ernst Schulze
  • Omar Khayyam
  • Roodabeh Shamloo
  • Yaakov Barzilai
  • Charles Leconte de Lisle
  • Kalidasa
  • Rabindranath Tagore
  • William Radice
  • Heinrich Heine

Languages

  • English
  • German
  • French
  • Chinese
  • Korean
  • Farsi
  • Arabic
  • Hebrew
  • Ladino
  • Sanskrit (in translation)
  • Pali

DIVAN OF SONG COMPOSITIONS:

Ye Shen:
果戈理 / Gogol (Tranströmer / Dao Bei)
for soprano and piano (2017), in Chinese

Roodabe Shamloo:
قربانگاه / Farkhunda / Altar (Shamloo) for soprano and piano (2017), in Farsi

Nizar Elkhater:
حالِه من حالي / Hale min Hali (Assadi) for mezzo-soprano and piano (2017), in Arabic

Samuel Milea:
A State of Auspicious Bliss (from the Therigatha) for soprano and piano (2017), in Pali

ZHOUZOU:  Lini Gong (soprano)

TONGYEONG: Narea Son (soprano)
SHIRAZ: Sheida Damghani (soprano) and Roodabeh Shamloo (composer)
TEL AVIV - YAFO: Hagar Sharvit (mezzo-soprano)
MOSSUL: Pia Salomé Bohnert (soprano)
NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE: Katharina Konradi (soprano) and Samuel Milea (composer)

Goethe, Hafez and Persian Poetry

November 20th 2016
Weimar Konzerthall Belvedere Castle Festival MelosLogos

Artists

Composers

Poets

  • Rumi
  • Mirza Shaffy Vazeh
  • Hafez
  • Omar Khayyam
  • Hans Bethge
  • Jaroslaw Iwaszkiewicz
  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Languages

  • Farsi
  • German
  • Armenian (in translation)

DIVAN OF SONG COMPOSITIONS:

Mahdis Golzar Kashani: دزد دل / Heart Snatcher (Rumi)
for soprano and piano (2016), in Farsi

Daniel Behle: Three Hafez Songs / Drei Hafis-Lieder
for tenor and piano (2016), in German

  • Sieh, ich sterbe vor Verlangen (Hafez / Rosenzweig-Schwannau)
  • Am Anfang in Treuen (Hafez / Bürgel)
  • Flügelschläge (Hafez / Rosenzweig-Schwannau)
(Live Recording: Deutschlandfunk Kultur | Photos: Candy Welz)

Nightlight. Songs from Israel and Europe

July 25th 2015
Stuttgart University Hohenheim UNESCO - International Year of Light

Artists

Composers

  • Franz Schubert
  • Robert Schumann
  • Jetzekiel Braun
  • Gabriel Fauré
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams
  • Franz Schreker
  • Hugo Wolf
  • Alexander Zemlinsky
  • Max Brodt
  • Rivka Gvili
  • Joseph Szulc

Poets

  • Carl Lappe
  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Elisabeth Kulmann
  • Heinrich Heine
  • Dora Leen
  • Eduard Mörike
  • Paul Verlaine
  • Lea Goldberg
  • Robert Louis Stevenson

Languages

  • Hebrew
  • German
  • English
  • French