Collaborative concert TouchPoint: Longing fulfilled – Elysium

John Adams b. 1947
Alone for voice and piano

Joan Tower b. 1938
Wild Purple for viola

Franz Jochen Herfert b. 1955
Elysäische Landschaften für Klavier [Elysian Landscapes for Piano]

Johannes Brahms 1833-97
Two Songs for alto, viola and piano op. 91

Yumi Koyama, soprano
Akiko Hirataka, viola
Sayaka Schuster, piano

Admission free, donations welcome

Taking the title of the first song “Gestillte Sehnsucht” [Longing fulfilled] of Johannes Brahms’s Opus 91 as a starting point, the programme includes more recent works which express longing and Elysium in music in quite different ways and in the broadest sense. Compositions from Erich Wolfgang Korngold through Hanns Eisler and Samuel Barber to Joan Tower and John Adams. Pieces for piano and viola solo are interwoven.