Biographies & programs
26.5.24
15:30
Cornelius Lewenberg
Germany
Walewein Witten
Netherlands
Program
Franz Schubert
Der Musensohn D 764 (J.W.v.Goethe) - 1R
Orpheus D 474 (Jakobi)
Frühlingsglaube D 686 (Ludwig Uhland)
Ludwig van Beethoven
La partenza ("Ecco quel fiero istante") WoO 124 (Pietro Metastasio) - 1R
Zärtliche Liebe WoO 123 (Karl F. Herrosee)
Hugo Wolf
Eichendorff-Lieder
2. Der Musikant
Robert Schumann
Myrthen, Op. 25
1. Widmung (Friedrich Rückert)
Henri Duparc
Mélodies
1. L’invitation au voyage (Charles Baudelaire)
4. Extase (Jean Lahor) - 1R
9. Chanson triste (Jean Lahore)
Roger Quilter
Three Shakespeare Songs, Op.6
1. Come Away, Death" aus " Nr.1 - 1R
6. Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind
Gerald Finzi
Let us Garlands bring, Op.18 (William Shakespeare)
3. Fear no more
5. It Was a Lover and His Lass
Ivor Gurney
Five Elizabethan Songs
2. Tears (Anonymous)
4. Sleep (John Fletcher)
Media
Cornelius Lewenberg
Baritone
Year of birth:
1989
Cornelius Lewenberg studied at the Karlsruhe University of Music with Prof. Röhlig, Prof. Höll and Prof. Shirai. He made guest appearances at the Pforzheim, Mannheim and Darmstadt theaters. He received prizes from the Baden Cultural Fund, the Schloss Rheinsberg Chamber Opera and the Bad Orb Opera Academy. From 2016 to 2021 he was part of the ensemble of the Schwerin State Theater. Recently he sang at the Komische Oper Berlin, at the Munot Opera Games and the Zwingenberg Castle Festival. He gave recitals, among other in Vienna, London, Newcastle and Berlin with Schubert's Die Schöne Müllerin and Winterreise as well as songs by Schumann and other composers. He is currently engaged at the Hamburg Chamber Opera.
Walewein Witten
Pianist
Walewein Witten studied harpsichord and fortepiano in The Hague and piano in Utrecht.
As a harpsichordist he worked with the Utrecht Baroque Consort, The London Bach Players and Ensemble Anima e Corpo, with conductors such as Ton Koopman, Andrew Manze, Cristian Curnyn, Konrad Junghänel, and Hans-Jörg Albrecht. He is currently a harpsichordist with the Lauttencompagney Berlin
under Wolfgang Katschner. As a pianist, he is a popular partner for chamber music in various ensembles and as a song accompanist. From 2005 to 2014 as a repetiteur/bandmaster at the theaters in Düsseldorf, Bremerhaven and Kassel. From 2018 to 2023 he was head of studies and assistant to the GMD at the Komische Oper Berlin.