Lied und Lyrik: Eduard Mörike

Christoph Prégardien, Tenor
Julius Drake, Piano
Udo Samel, Recitation

Program
Eduard Mörike
Selected Poems and Texts
Readings in German
Settings by Robert Schumann, Pauline Viardot, Johannes Brahms, Hugo Wolf, Hans Pftitzner, Otmar Schoeck, and others

In the fall of 2021, Christoph Prégardien, Udo Samel, and curator Julius Drake launched the Lied und Lyrik series with a musical and literary tribute to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Now the three artists are back to explore the works of Eduard Mörike, who even in his own lifetime was called the most important successor to the master from Weimar. In readings and musical settings from the 19th and 20th centuries, they invite the audience to discover the unexpected and the mysterious beneath the Biedermeier façade of Mörike’s verses.