Occasionally we come across a Big Name in our archive, and Jard van Nes is one of them.
Most of the concerts we record are not of the A-list. Of course, they are of high quality, but they are usually not the most famous artists we record. That’s where the public broadcaster (Radio 4) usually beats us.
But sometimes we still get them, those famous artists! Mezzo-soprano Jard van Nes, for example. In the 1980s and 1990s, she triumphed in almost everything a mezzo-soprano could do: lieder, oratorio, opera, and more. She appears twice in our archives. In the first recital, from 1986, she performs romantic songs by Dvořák, Wolf, and Mahler. In the second recital, from 1994, she moves on to the twentieth century. At the piano is an even bigger name: none other than Reinbert de Leeuw, the emperor of New Music in the Netherlands, accompanies her on various Eastern European monuments.
Playlist:
1. Antonín Dvořák – Gypsy Songs Opus 55
– My Song Resounds with Love Again
– Ah! How My Triangle Resounds
– And the Woods are Silent All Around
– When My Old Mother Taught Me to Sing
– The String is Tuned
– Wide Sleeves
– Give the Hawk a Cage
2. Hugo Wolf – Mörike-Lieder
– At Midnight
– Encounter
– Think It, O Soul
– The Gardener
– Commission
3. Gustav Mahler:
– I Breathed a Linden Blossom (from Rückert-Lieder)
– I am Lost to the World (from Rückert-Lieder)
– Who Thought Up This Little Song (from Des Knaben Wunderhorn)
– Little Rhine Legend (from Des Knaben Wunderhorn)
– Praise of High Intellect (from Des Knaben Wunderhorn)
4. Béla Bartók – Five Songs Opus 16
– Autumn Tears
– Autumn Echo
– Lost Content
– Alone with the Sea
– I Cannot Come to You
5. Dmitri Shostakovich – Six Poems by Marina Tsvetaeva, Opus 143
– My Poems
– Whence This Tender Smile
– Dialogue Between Hamlet and His Conscience
– Poet and Tsar
– Down With the Drum, Alas
– To Anna Akhmatova
6. Leoš Janáček – The Diary of One Who Disappeared.
