The Western Illinois University School of Music will present a Faculty Recital featuring baritone Nicholas Miguel and pianist Jeffrey Brown at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 5 in the College of Fine Arts and Communication (COFAC) Recital Hall.

Nicholas Miguel, an assistant professor of Voice, and Jeffery Brown, the director of the School of Music and a professor of Piano, will be performing Robert Schumann’s most famous song cycle “Dichterliebe,” a beloved classic in German Lieder. Additionally, they will perform “Venezia,” a set of Venetian Italian songs composed by Reynaldo Hahn.

The program will include:

Dichterliebe, Op. 48 – Robert Schumann (1810-1856)

1. Im wunderschönen Monat Mai
2. Aus meinen Tränen spriessen
3. Die Rose, die Lilie, die Taube
4. Wenn ich in deine Augen seh’
5. Ich will meine Seele tauchen
6. Im Rhein, im heiligen Strome
7. Ich grolle nicht
8. Und wüssten’s die Blumen
9. Das ist ein Flöten und Geigen
10. Hör’ ich das Liedchen klingen
11. Ein Jüngling liebt en Mädchen
12. Am leuchtenden Sommermorgen
13. Ich hab’ im Traum geweinet
14. Allnächtlich im Traume
15. Aus alten Märchen
16. Die alten bösen Lieder

INTERMISSION

Venezia – Reynaldo Hahn (1874-1947)

1. Sopra l’acua indormenzada
2. La barcheta
3. L’avertimento
4. La biondina in gondoleta
5. Che pecà
6. La primavera

This performance is open free for general audience seating.

For more information, call the COFAC Recital Hall office at (309) 298-1843 or visit wiu.edu/recitalhall.

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