«Tote Liebe! Oder doch nicht?»

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When Joachim Raff expected, in spring 1853, that he would have to bury his love for the actress Doris Genast, he did so with the help of music: he wrote a song cycle entitled «Tote Liebe». The work, which survives only incompletely, has recently been published for the first time by Edition Nordstern – so a world premiere is probably ahead of us. The pieces are combined with Raff’s two settings of Tennyson’s poem Tears, idle tears and the Acht Gesängen op. 173. For many years, the duo of baritone Johannes Wedeking and pianist Hedayet Djeddikar has been working on Raff’s music and played a key role in the recording of a double album of Raff songs for the Sterling label. For this important performance, you could hardly wish for a better throat or fingers. Before the concert, Severin Kolb introduces the adventurous story of the cycle’s creation and shape. The concert is part of this year’s MKLA Music Festivals.

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