Programmes for recitals and concerts
The following programmes are suggestions for your event. Of course I provide special programmes according to your personal wishes. The list below is only a small choice of my repertory. Fees are subject to negotiation. In case you are interested in one of these programmes or a solo piano recital please call me or write me an e-mail.
“A musical journey to the sunny south”
Torsten Marfordt – tenor and presentation
Kerstin Marfordt – piano
- Santa Lucia (Neapolitan folk song)
- Core `ngrato (piano)
- Fenesta che lucive (Neapolitan folk song)
- O paese di sole (piano)
- Pecchè (piano)
- Desiderio by C.A.Bixio
- O sole mio by E. di Capua
- Torna a Surriento by E. di Curtis
- Guapparia (piano) Granada by Augustin Lara
- Marechiare (Neapolitan folk song)
- Non ti scordar di me by E. di Curtis
- Silenzio, Cantatore! (piano)
“Ridi , Bajazzo.....”
Torsten Marfordt - tenor
Kerstin Marfordt - piano
Possible programme:
Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901): “La donna è mobile” the Duca’s canzone from the opera “Rigoletto”
piano intermezzo: “Questa o quella” ( from “Rigoletto”)
Jacques Offenbach (1819-1880): Song of “Klein-Zack” from the opera “Les contes d’Hoffmann”
piano intermezzo: Barcarole from the opera “Les contes d’Hoffmann”
Ruggiero Leoncavallo (1857-1919): “Recitar..... Ridi, Pagliaccio” Canio’s aria from the opera “I Pagliacci”
piano intermezzo: intermezzo from “I Pagliacci”
Giuseppe Verdi: “Niun mi tema.....” Otello’s final scene from the homonymous opera
etc.
This recital can be combined very well to the Italian programme. The German/ English translations of the arias are handed out to the audience.
Recital “Die linden Lüfte sind erwacht...”
Classic pieces of the German Lied as well as poems. This programme can also refer to autumn or winter because the Lieder by Schubert, Schumann and Brahms, mentioned in this programme, form only a small part of the repertory.
e.g.
Franz Schubert (1797-1828): “Frühlingsglaube”
Ludwig van Beethoven ( 1770-1827): “Adelaide”
Franz Schubert: “Der Musensohn”
Carl Loewe (1796-1869): “Die Uhr”
Robert Schumann (1810-1856): “Mondnacht”
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897): “Alte Liebe”
Johannes Brahms: “O wüßt ich doch den Weg zurück”
Richard Strauß (1864-1949): “Zueignung”
"Concerto barocco”
Elisabeth Oltzen, traverse flute
Kerstin Marfordt, piano /presentation
various soloists
Arias from baroque Italian operas, framed by baroque chamber music with piano/ harpsichord (if available) and traverse flute.
Brief introduction and information about origin and classification of every aria. The German/English translation of the arias is handed out to the audience
Possible programme
Anna Amalia von Preußen (1723-1784) : Sonata for flute and piano
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710 –1736): “Se tu m’ami”
Alessandro Scarlatti (1660- 1725): “O cessate di piagarmi”
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750): Partita A minor for traverse flute
Alessandro Scarlatti : “Son tutta duolo”
Anna Amalia von Preußen: Sonata for flute and piano (F minor), third movement
Alessandro Scarlatti: “Se Florindo è fedele”
Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757): piano sonata in D minor(Toccata)
Antonio Caldara (1671-1763): “Sebben crudele”
Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767): 2nd Fantasia in A minor for traverse flute
Benedetto Marcello (1686-1739): “Quella fiamma che m’accende”
Friedrich the Great (1712-1786): “Cantabile”
Gian Giacomo Carissimi (1605-1674): “Vittoria, vittoria!”
