The pearls of charming standards carried out by French tone Benjamin Bernheim mesmerized the target market at the Salzburg Celebration.
Bernheim” s recital was come with by Mathieu Pordoy on the piano and also the efficiency adeptly revealed the tone’s variety. He exposed his heart with a variety of German, English and also French art tracks.
Romanticism and also love
On the program was Ernest Chausson, Clara Schumann, Johannes Brahms, Benjamin Britten and also Frank Bridge. Bernheim opened up with his preferred Chausson item ‘Poème de l’amour et de la mer’ (Rhyme of Love and also the Sea), a love track packed with symbolistic magic.
‘ Poème de l’amour et de la mer’ was initially a tune cycle for voice and also band. It was made up over numerous years throughout the 1880s and also was committed by Chausson to Henri Duparc, a French author from the late charming duration.
The tone informed euronews that “Chausson permits us to experience the phases of life’s likes” with this track. Chausson musically defined the start of love, the production, the exploration up until completion, stood for by the verses: “when the lavenders will certainly not return”. To Bernheim, this representation of love is “something that’s really solid.”
In relation to the nature of the songs carried out, Pordoy defines himself as a person conscious romanticism. He believes that it might appear antique in today’s globe to make the effort to consider on your own, your sensations, yet to him, that is the heart of romanticism. He makes certain that still talks with individuals.
To Bernheim, romanticism is bitter pleasant. It defines the discomfort and also pain pertaining to like, not simply the well-presented facets of the feelings.
The nature of a recital
The intimate ambience of a recital is produced by the wonderful bond woven in between the vocalist, the pianist and also the target market and also this can be an obstacle for the musicians. Pordoy stated that the hardest component of all of it “is standing in front of the target market, informing your tales without the band’s defense, without the defense of the collection, without the props.”
Bernheim feels this also. He informed us that what the musicians need to do is significant, “both people are truly subjected. It can in fact be terrifying”, he included. However they both concur lightheartedly that neither of them is vulnerable to this worry.
The Salzburg Celebration
The celebration is a yearly occasion that lasts 5 weeks throughout summer season. This year it runs up until the 31st of August.
Bernheim made his launching at the Salzburg Celebration in 2012 under the instructions of William Christie as Agenore in Il re pastore by Mozart. Nevertheless, it is Pordoy’s launching at Salzburg.
Bernheim defines the city, not simply the celebration, as “a location that takes a breath songs throughout the year”. To him and also several others, it’s a location where you can truly feel the tunes shaking, regardless of where you are.
