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Photo above of composer György Kurtág; Signs, Games, and Messages 2026 - Program One
Photo: Benjamin Appl by David Ruano, 2025.

Signs, Games, and Messages 2026 - Program One

Kurtág and the Lieder Tradition
Wednesday, March 11, 2026
Olin Hall
7:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Free and open to the public

PROGRAM

Franz Schubert
An die Leier, D. 737
Nachtviolen, D. 752
Die Sterne, D. 939
Wandrers Nachtlied II, D. 768

Benjamin Appl, baritone
Erika Switzer, piano

György Kurtág 
Four Schuster Songs (lyrics by Ulrike Schuster)
Die Rosen
Die Zeit
Ich weiß nicht
Physalis alkagengi

Benjamin Appl, baritone
Benjamin Hochman, piano

György Kurtág
Selections from Játékok (Games)
Thistle (Book 3)
Hommage à Schubert (Book 3)
Präludium und Choral (Book 5)
Márta ligaturája (Book 12)
Hommage à Berényi Ferenc 70 (Book 7)
Capriccioso – Luminoso (Book 5)
... Apple Blossom ... (Book 9)
Les Adieux (in Janáček’s manner) (Book 6)
Ligatura dolce amara – amara - dolce (Book 11)

Benjamin Hochman, piano

Franz Schubert
Rondo in A Major, D. 951 (for piano four hands)

James Baillieu, piano
Benjamin Hochman, piano

INTERMISSION

György Kurtág
Hölderlin-Gesänge, Op. 35a
An . . .
Im Walde (für Georg Kröll)
Gestalt und Geist
An Zimmern (für Reinhart Meyer-Kalkus)
Der Spaziergang (für Heinz Holliger)
Tübingen, Jänner (Robert Klein in Erinnerung)

Benjamin Appl, baritone

Robert Schumann
Kerner-Lieder, Op. 35

Benjamin Appl, baritone
James Baillieu, piano

Live streaming https://www.youtube.com/live/g1n1f5kSfJw
Download: Kurtag Program FINAL.pdf

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].

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Time: 7:00 pm EDT/GMT-4

Location: Olin Hall

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