Austria: Music & Majesty – Helena’s recital is a selection of favorite and well known love songs by Schubert, Brahms, Strauss, Mahler and Wolf and features Schumann’s song cycle ‘Frauenliebe und – leben’.: a woman’s life and loves. Over a century of romantic lieder composition is represented in this personal journey trough German and Austrian song. https://americandreamdrivein.com/
All the composers lived at some time in Vienna and the city offered the best opportunities for performance of their works. The study of Lieder is vital to the professional development of any aspiring singer and the German language offers its own challenges in song. Our A4 souvenir programme providers full-translations, an essay on the development of the Romantic Lied and a travelogue of our trip to Vienna and Salzburg.