Divan of Song

Past Events

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

Old Persia meets Young Austria (II)

May 9th 2015
Teheran Austria Culture Forum Teheran

Artists

Composers

  • Franz Schubert
  • Luis Spohr
  • Johannes Brahms
  • Othmar Schoeck
  • Boris Blacher
  • Ernst Krenek
  • Johanna Doderer

Poets

  • Wilhelm Müller
  • Hafez
  • Mirza Shaffy Vazeh
  • Omar Khayyam
  • Ernst Krenek

Languages

  • German
  • Farsi (in translation)
  • Armenian (in translation)

DIVAN OF SONG COMPOSITIONS:

Johanna Doderer:
Two Songs after Omar Khayyam for voice and piano (2015), in German

  • Himmelswein
  • Reue

Teheran / Iran