Will Liverman Recital

Grammy Award–winning baritone Will Liverman and acclaimed pianist Myra Huang—both in their Festival debuts—perform a wonderfully rich program that ranges from Carl Loewe’s folklore-infused, early-19th-century gem “Erlkönig” to Michael Ippolito’s evocative 2021 song cycle The Long Year, which was written for and premiered by Liverman and Huang. The program also includes the short but poignant “Grief” by groundbreaking 20th-century composer William Grant Still, Vaughan Williams’s high-spirited Songs of Travel, Rachmaninoff’s dark-edged “Sud’ba,” which takes its inspiration from the famous four notes that open Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5, and more.

MICHAEL IPPOLITO The Long Year (2021)       

   Winter Night                              

   Spring Song 

   The Faun 

   Mariposa 

   If Still Your Orchards Bear 

   The Oak Leaves 

   The Buck In The Snow 

WILLIAM GRANT STILL “Grief” (1953) 

RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Songs of Travel (1901-04) 

   The Vagabond 

   Let Beauty Awake 

   The Roadside Fire 

   Youth and Love 

   In Dreams 

   The Infinite Shining Heavens 

   Whither must I Wander? 

   Bright is the Ring of Words 

FRANCIS POULENC “Avant de Cinéma” from Quatre Poèmes de Guillaume Apollinaire (1931) 

CARL LOEWE “Erlkönig”, Op. 1, No. 3 (1824) 

SERGEI RACHMANINOFF “Sud‘ba”, Op. 21, No. 1 (1900)