San Sebastian, Spain
Sala de Cámara del Kursaal
25 August 2009
Bejun Mehta, counter tenor
Julius Drake, piano
Henry Purcell
Strike the Viol
Olinda in the shades unseen
Since from my dear Astrea’s sight
Evening Hymn (arr. Britten)
Joseph Haydn
Sympathy
She never told her love
Fidelity
Ludwig von Beethoven
An die ferne Geliebte
Interval
Ralph Vaughan Williams: Linden Lea
Herbert Howells: The Widow Bird
Lennox Berkeley: The Horseman
Herbert Howells: The Little Boy Lost
Charles Villiers Stanford: La Belle Dame sans Merci
Peter Warlock: The Lover’s Maze
Ivor Gurney: Down by the Salley Gardens
Ralph Vaughan Williams: Silent Noon
Peter Warlock: Jillian of Berry
Article in adn.es
Original article in Spanish, translation below
http://www.adn.es/cultura/20090825/NWS-0122-Sebastian-Kursaal-Bejun-Mehta-San.html
The young American countertenor Bejun Mehta, a relative of famed conductor Zubin Mehta, will perform today at the Chamber Hall of the Kursaal in San Sebastian, in the 70th Musical Fortnight. In its proposed action to the public a journey through time, because the program will be presented covering a wide range of musical styles.
As detailed the musical contest Donostia, Mehta will begin the concert with Henry Purcell’s Baroque (XVII century) and finish with creations of composers who excelled in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries as Ralph Vaughan Williams and Lennox Berkeley.
Meanwhile, he will perform works by essential composers of classical music, such as Joseph Haydn and Ludwig van Beethoven, with a chronological perspective. The time will be at eight o’clock, and he will perform together with the proven track record pianist Julius Drake.
Born in North Carolina, Bejun Mehta was a child when he began his career and now is one of the most popular countertenors of the day. He made his operatic debut in 1998 in New York City Opera as Armando in ‘Partenope’.
Mehta has sung at the Royal Opera House in London, Bayerische Staatsoper, Palau de Valencia, Netherlands Opera, the New York Metropolitan Opera, Glyndebourne and Salzburg festivals, Théâtre du Châtelet, Santa Fe Opera, Teatro de la Monnaie, Pittsburgh Opera , Staatsoper Berlin, Aix-en-Provence, Innsbruck, Paris National Opera, Opera San Francisco and Los Angeles Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, among others.
Meanwhile, Julius Drake, is a specialist in chamber music, accompanying various vocal and instrumental soloists both live and in studio. His recent performances have taken him to festivals in Aldeburgh, Edinburgh, Munich, Salzburg and Tanglewood Schubertiada and venues such as Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center in New York, Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Châtelet, Louvre in Paris, Musikverein and Konzerthaus in Vienna , and Wigmore Hall and BBC Proms in London.