TRANSLATIONReview Lieder Recital - Premiere performance "Night Songs"
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Lieder Recital as the conclusion of the
Candlelight Concert Series 2024
The final concert of this year's Candlelight Concert series took place in
the festival hall of Zwettl Abbey with baritone Paul Armin
Edelmann and Robert Pobitschka on the piano.
(Photo) The final
concert of this year’s Candlelight Concert series took place
in the festival hall of Zwettl Abbey, featuring baritone Paul
Armin Edelmann (pictured on the right) and Robert Pobitschka on
the piano.
Songs by Johannes Brahms from the High Romantic era were
performed. They spoke of unfulfilled longing, fickle emotions,
everlasting love, a visit to the cemetery on a rain-heavy day,
expectant wishes, of nightingales and dreams. World premiere of Robert Pobitschka's
'Night Songs' The audience
was offered a completely different sound experience in the form
of contemporary music through the "Nachtlieder"
composed by Robert Pobitschka, which premiered that evening. Expressive
and sensitive, menacing, then filled with mortal fear again –
each of the songs – with texts from authors including Rilke,
Trakl, Novalis, and Eichendorff – was crafted convincingly,
movingly, and touchingly. With this work, Pobitschka gave space
to his creative diversity and enthused the audience. Nine songs by Richard Strauss gave
space to the music of the late Romantic period. The texts are
optimistic and heartwarming: a feast of joy, love and passion, a
lasting memory, the hopeful wish for wealth and property, a
loving farewell. The equally magnificent and demanding
song recital in the festival hall of the monastery, whose
ceiling and walls are adorned with impressive Rococo trompe-l’œil paintings, was met with prolonged applause from the concertgoers.
Robert Pobitschka, the artistic and organizational director of the
Candlelight Concerts, not only demonstrates his brilliant skills
combined with great sensitivity as a pianist and organist on
international concert tours, but is also successful with his own
compositions, which showcase and present the diversity of his
creative potential. His compositions have been performed –
besides many other interpreters – by the Radio Symphony
Orchestra Vienna, the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg, as well as
an ensemble of the Vienna Philharmonic. He himself has performed
in numerous European countries as well as in South Africa,
Japan, China, the USA, and Peru.
Paul Armin Edelmann,
born in Vienna, is a world-class baritone. He comes from a
musical family and devoted himself to singing as a child as a
member and soloist with the Vienna Boys’ Choir. After studying
at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna, he
performed not only in many European countries but also in China,
Japan, Canada, the USA, Mexico, and Brazil. His energetic voice
resonates with a wonderful timbre, and with great empathy, he
conveyed the drama and melancholy, the anger and pain, the
admiration and unfulfilled longing in the songs he performed.
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