Concerts
Ted Black, tenor · Dylan Perez, piano
The Triumph of Melody and Lied
October 10th, 2023

© Musée d'Orsay / Sophie Crépy
The duo composed of tenor Ted Black and pianist Dylan Perez opens the Triumph of Melody and Lied cycle. New this season, the Concerts at 12:30 programs included in the cycle are inspired by works in the Museum: for this first concert, a highly literary program with Dante and Virgil.
Inspired by William Bouguereau’s painting, Dante and Virgil, the two artists, both Orsay-Royaumont Academy laureates, present a poetic program including Baudelaire, Verlaine, Rimbaud and Éluard set to music by Britten, Poulenc, Debussy and Déodat de Séverac.
Dante and Virgil, in 1850
Musée d'Orsay
Donation, 2010
© Musée d’Orsay, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais / Patrice Schmidt
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Concert followed by a presentation of the painting in the Museum’s galleries by an art history student.
Artists
- Ted Black, tenor;
- Dylan Perez, piano.
Program
- Déodat de Séverac, Paysages tristes;
- Louis Bessières, Le dormeur du val [Arthur Rimbaud];
- Benjamin Britten, Villes, op.18 no.2 [Arthur Rimbaud] extract from Illuminations;
- André Caplet, Green [Paul Verlaine];
- Benjamin Britten, Phrase, op.18 no.3a [Arthur Rimbaud] extract from Illuminations;
- Benjamin Britten, Antique, op.18 no.3b [Arthur Rimbaud] extract from Illuminations;
- Claude Debussy, Le Jet d'Eau, FL 70, no.3 [Charles Baudelaire] extract from Five Poems by Charles Baudelaire;
- Józef Zygmunt Szulc, Claire de lune [Paul Verlaine];
- Benjamin Britten, Being Beauteous, op.18 no.7 [Arthur Rimbaud] extract from Illuminations;
- Francis Poulenc, Je Nommerai ton Front, FP 98, no.2 [Paul Eluard] extract from Miroirs Brûlants;
- Charles Bordes, Chanson d'automne [Paul Verlaine];
- Charles Koechlin, Mon rêve familier, op. 22, no. 3;
- Poldowski, Spleen [Paul Verlaine];
- Jean Cras, Sagesse, no.4 [Paul Verlaine] extract from 7 Melodies;
- Benjamin Britten, Parade, op.18 no.1 [Arthur Rimbaud] extract from Illuminations;
- Francis Poulenc, Voyage, FP 140, no.7 extract from Calligrammes;
- Déodat de Séverac, Le ciel est par-dessus le toit;
- Claude Debussy, La Mort des Amants, FL 70 no.5 [Charles Baudelaire] extract from Five Poems by Charles Baudelaire;
- Benjamin Britten, Départ, op.18 no.9 [Arthur Rimbaud] extract from Illuminations.
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