A Poet's Love
Fri, Aug 22
|Portland
An intimate house recital featuring great romantic song cycles: Schumann's Dichterliebe and Liszt's Three Petrarchean Sonnets.
Time & Location
Aug 22, 2025, 7:00 PM
Portland, 1100 SW Westwood Dr, Portland, OR 97239, USA
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About the event
ONLY 8 TICKETS REMAINING (as of August 15)!
Do not miss this unique opportunity to hear great vocal works of romantic tradition in an intimate house environment! Baritone Anton Belov and pianist Stanislav Serebriannikov perform Schumann's delicate and dramatic Dichterliebe (A Poet's Love) to the poetry of the great Heinrich Heine, followed by Franz Liszt's virtuosic Tre Sonetti di Petrarca (Three Sonnets by Petrarch).
Please note that there is going to be a pre-concert discussion.
These two song cycles are profoundly autobiographical. Dichterliebe was written in 1840, while Schumann was engaged to the great pianist and composer Clara Wieck, nine years his junior. Clara's father, Friedrich, was Schumann's piano teacher. He vehemently objected to the marriage, and Robert had to take him to court for defamation of character. Meanwhile, the couple had to spend nearly a year apart. That year (1840) became known as Schumann's Year of Song, during which…