Why are art song recitals so difficult to sell? What are artists doing to creatively intervene in the art song itself, updating it, making it more accessible? Also, is Schumann and Heine's Dichterliebe maybe about a depressed stalker? 

Helping me sort through all sorts of song-related things this week are a host of legends: Bryan Benner, Markus Hadulla, Wolfgang Holzmair, Martha Guth, Kathleen Kelly, Sholto Kynoch, Rebecca Nelsen & Roderick Williams.

Culpa mia! One little correction from this week’s episode, I mistakenly referred to Sholto’s series as the Oxford Lieder Festival, it’s dead name. Now of course it is called the Oxford International Song Festival.

Music used in this episode:
— Franz Schubert: ”Die Forelle”; The Erlkings
— Franz Schubert: Schwanengesang, D. 957 “Die Taubenpost”; Wolfgang Holzmair & Imogen Cooper
— Franz Schubert: Ellens Gesang I: “Raste Kreiger”; Martha Guth & Graham Johnson
— Franz Schubert: “Erlkönig” D. 328; The Erlkings 

Related Links:
Oxford International Song Festival: https://oxfordsong.org/
The Erlkings: https://www.theerlkings.com/
Wolfgang Holzmair:  http://wolfgangholzmair.com/ 
Markus Hadulla: https://www.mdw.ac.at/inst4/markus-hadulla/ 
Martha Guth: https://www.marthaguth.com/ 
On the Songmakers’ Almanac: https://www.sparksandwirycries.org/magazine/2018/6/7/graham-johnson-the-songmakers-almanac-returns 
Kathleen Kelly: http://www.kathleenkellymusic.com/ 
Rebecca Nelsen: https://www.rebeccanelsen.com/ 
Bryan Benner: https://www.bryanbenner.com/ 
Roderick Williams: https://www.classical-music.com/features/artists/roderick-williams-the-the-best-recordings 

Concept & Narration: Chanda VanderHart https://iwk.mdw.ac.at/chanda-vanderhart/ 
Sound and Editing: Bill Lloyd https://www.linkedin.com/in/bill-lloyd-40b42b20/?originalSubdomain=uk 
Sponsored by the Stabstelle Gleichstellung, Gender Studies und Diversität and the Department of Musicology and Performance Studies (IMI) at the mdw - University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna https://www.mdw.ac.at/imi/too-many-frocks/

S2E4 The Sales Pitch

In this, our penultimate episode of season 2, we talk more about whether Art Song  — as a genre, a product and also as an industry — is actually accessible to everyone and why or why not. We touch on topics ranging from Eurovision, publication, entrepreneur Rosario Marciano and efforts to being made to diversify repertoire, who gets on stage and music history in Europe, the UK, North America and Australia with Lana Bode, Elaine Chia, John Michael Cooper, Jocelyn Freeman, Elvia Puccinelli, Wolfgang Holzmair, Natasha Loges  & Roderick Williams.

Music used in this episode:
-Noel Coward: “I went to a marvelous party” from “Set to Music"
Patricia Routledge & Cowardy Custard (Original London Festival Cast Recording) 972 Sony Music Entertainment
-Deborah Cheetham: Woven Song, Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Live
-Robert Schumann: “Im wunderschönen Monat Mai” from Dichterliebe, Wolfgang Holzmair & Imogen Cooper
-Édith Piaf: “La vie en rose” Clara Montocchio & Chanda VanderHart
-Florence Price: “The Heart of a Woman”, Fleur Barron & Kunal Lahiry

Related Links:
Song Easel: https://www.songeasel.co.uk/#:~:text=SongEasel%20was%20founded%20by%20Jocelyn,charitable%20status%20in%20February%202022. 
Lana Bode: https://www.lanabode.com/ 
Elaine Chia: https://www.linkedin.com/in/elaine-chia-4364aa1/?originalSubdomain=au 
Jocelyn Freeman: https://www.jocelynfreeman.com/ 
Natasha Loges: https://twitter.com/i/flow/login?redirect_after_login=%2Fnatashaloges 
Michael Cooper: https://cooperm55.wixsite.com/jmc3
Roderick Williams: https://twitter.com/RGCWbaritone?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor
Wolfgang Holzmair: http://wolfgangholzmair.com/ 
Elvia Puccinelli: https://music.unt.edu/faculty-and-staff/elvia-puccinelli

Concept & Narration: Chanda VanderHart iwk.mdw.ac.at/chanda-vanderhart/
Sound and Editing: Bill Lloyd www.linkedin.com/in/bill-lloyd-40…inalSubdomain=uk
Sponsored by the Stabstelle Gleichstellung, Gender Studies und Diversität and the Department of Musicology and Performance Studies (IMI) at the mdw - University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna www.mdw.ac.at/imi/too-many-frocks/

S2E8 Emergency Access

Delphine (Franz Schubert)

Lange habe ich den Wunsch gehegt, Lieder des musikalischen Jugendstil aufzunehmen. Seit meiner Studienzeit, besonders in London, habe ich mich mit Erich Wolfgang Korngold und seinen Zeitgenossen sehr intensiv beschäftigt. Zahlreiche Liederabende und auch meine Magisterarbeit über das Liedschaffen von Erich Wolfgang Korngold haben schließlich dazu geführt, diese Aufnahme zu verwirklichen. 
Die Zusammenstellung der Lieder soll ein Abbild der Zeit sein und beinhaltet Komponisten, die das musikalische Leben Wiens im Jugendstil mitgeprägt haben. 
Ich wünsche viel Vergnügen beim Besuch eines Wiener Salons. Auch bei der Aufnahme haben wir versucht, diese Stimmung einzufangen. Vielleicht entdecken Sie dabei noch nie Gehörtes!

Korngold - Die Gansleber Im Hause Duschnitz

Pianist, Musicologist and Lover of Wonderful Voices

S2E4 The Sales Pitch

Chanda VanderHart

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