This concert at Beethovenfest Bonn was the official inauguration of the Divan of Song project. (Live Recording: Deutschlandfunk.)
Bridge to India
September
14th
2014
Bonn
Kammermusiksaal Beehovenhaus Beethovenfest
Artists
- Christiane Iven (soprano)
- Sangeeta Badyopadhyay (vocals)
- Pandit Sankha Chatterjee (tabla)
- Burkhard Kehring (piano)
Composers
- Alexander Zemlinsky
- Karol Szymanowski
- Olivier Messiaen
- Param Vir
- Raga Improvisations
Poets
- Rabindranath Tagore
- Kalidasa
- Amaru
- Olivier Messiaen
Languages
- English
- German
- French
- Bengali
- Sanskrit
Divan of Song COMPOSITONS:
Param Vir : ABLAZE!
Three Songs from Tagore’s Gitanjali
(Rabindranath Tagore / William Radice)
for soprano and piano (2014), in English
- I want you
- O silence
- Shine before my eyes
