Organization

Conductor

Leon Botstein

Singer

Contralto

Stephanie Blythe

Fisher Center at Bard

Others

Bard Festival Chorale

Tenor

Joshua Blue

Stephanie Blythe Sings Brahms

Annandale

United States

Fisher Center

Sosnoff Theater

Stephanie Blythe Sings Brahms: Rinaldo, op. 50 IJB 104 Brahms (+2 More)

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Rinaldo, op. 50 IJB 104

The Alto Rhapsody, Op. 53

Symphony No. 1 in C Minor, op. 68

Approved

Award-winning mezzo-soprano Stephanie Blythe, artistic director of Bard Conservatory’s Graduate Vocal Arts Program, joins TŌN for an all-Brahms concert.

She performs his profound and dramatic Alto Rhapsody, based on a Goethe poem, which he composed as a wedding gift for the daughter of Robert and Clara Schumann, for whom he once carried a torch. The program also includes the sweeping cantata Rinaldo, inspired by another Goethe poem about a knight who has been enchanted by a cunning sorceress. The program concludes with Brahms’ masterful First Symphony, which the composer toiled over for 14 years before its debut performance.

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