In the program:
Gustav Mahler - vocal cycle "Songs of the Traveling Apprentice"
Ralph Vaughan Williams - vocal cycle "Travel Songs" (by R. L. Stevenson)
Eugenijus Chrebtovas, one of the most famous baritones of today's Lithuania, and the ambassador of Lithuanian culture in Germany, pianist, vocal accompanist and musicologist Raminta Lampsatytė will join forces for a special concert of vocal music masterpieces. For the joint project, the artists chose two vocal cycles representing both the countries represented by the composers and their art song culture, which reached unprecedented heights of perfection thanks to these creators.
Gustav Mahler's vocal cycle "Songs of the Traveling Apprentice" is a four-part work created with the composer's own text and is considered one of the most romantic works of this author. The cycle, which requires great concentration, professional skill and extraordinary emotional expression from the performers, contains the entire story of a young man's life and love in four songs, leading the listener from unlimited joy through disappointment to painful enlightenment.
Ralph Vaughan Williams' vocal cycle "Travel Songs", set to words by Robert Louis Stevenson, is perhaps deservedly considered one of the most expressive examples of British vocal music. The nine-part work is extremely contrasting, reflecting various emotional expressions, characterized by melodiousness and perfectly developed dramaturgy of the plot. It, like G. Mahler's "Songs of the Traveling Apprentice", deservedly occupies an important position in the gold fund of baritone repertoire of all time.
