Song recital with soprano and piano
Night and Dreams
A poetic recital with songs by Franz Schubert, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Clara Schumann and Richard Strauss
Maria Nazarova, soprano
Evgenia Fölsche, piano
An evening between dream, memory and longing
Night and Dreams is a song recital about the in-between spaces of the soul: darkness and remembrance, longing and consolation, farewell and transfiguration. In this programme, night appears not only as darkness, but as a space of inner images, quiet confessions and musical transformation.
Works by Franz Schubert, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Clara Schumann and Richard Strauss combine to form an atmospherically coherent arc — from Romantic intimacy and Russian sound poetry to the luminous intensity of late Romanticism.
Performance / Concert Documentation
The programme was performed at the Festival der Stimmen Liechtenstein in the Rathaussaal Vaduz. The performance with Maria Nazarova and Evgenia Fölsche was reviewed in the Liechtensteiner Vaterland.
Video impressions
The following excerpts offer a first impression of the musical atmosphere of the evening. Further concert recordings, programme materials and additional documentation are available to presenters on request in a protected area.
Programme idea
The recital begins in Franz Schubert’s world, where night, dream and inner unrest become immediate musical language. Clara Schumann’s songs open an intimate and sensitive sound world in which poetic imagery and emotional movement are closely interwoven.
With Sergei Rachmaninoff, a different colour enters the programme: darkly glowing harmonies, broad melodic lines and a distinctive mixture of melancholy and spaciousness. Richard Strauss finally leads the evening into a late-Romantic sphere of memory, devotion and transfiguration.
The result is a programme that does not merely place individual songs side by side, but unfolds an inner dramaturgy: from night as a place of unrest to night as a space of peace.
Composers in the programme
For presenters
Night and Dreams is suitable for concert series, song festivals, chamber music programmes, cultural associations, as well as societies and institutions with an interest in Schubert, Clara Schumann, Rachmaninoff or Richard Strauss.
- Scoring: soprano and piano
- Duration: approx. 70–90 minutes, depending on programme version and interval arrangement
- Instrument: well-tuned grand piano or concert grand
- Venue: concert hall, chamber music hall or cultural venue with suitable acoustics for art song
- Optional: introduction, moderated version or additional song analyses
Detailed documentation with further concert recordings, programme booklets, press reviews and in-depth materials can be made available to interested presenters in a protected area.
Concert enquiry
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