Pogorelc & Drake Recital

In her Festival debut, soprano Emily Pogorelc—praised by BBC Music Magazine as a “sensational” artist who’s “rapidly becoming a star on the European opera scene”—and the acclaimed pianist Julius Drake perform two towering song cycles: Mahler’s deeply moving Songs of a Wayfarer, which evokes the anguish of lost love, and Korngold’s beautiful Songs of Farewell, written while the young composer was coming to terms with the losses of World War I and with being separated from his future wife. Pogorelc and Drake also perform a selection of art songs by the Austrian master Hugo Wolf as well as an alluring set of songs by Britten that features text by the poet W. H. Auden. 

MAHLER Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (Songs of a Wayfarer)  

KORNGOLD Abschiedslieder (Songs of Farewell), Op. 14 

WOLF Selected Songs  

BRITTEN On This Island, Op. 11 

Emily Pogorelc, soprano; Julius Drake, piano  

Approximate length: 1 hour