"So reflect in song what the earth has most beautiful!" - Song recital with works by Johannes Brahms, Maurice Ravel, Richard Strauss, Viktor Ullmann and others

Johannes Brahms, Richard Strauss, Maurice Ravel. Great composer personalities with whom one often associates romantic soundscapes full of longing and emotion. In their music, nature often becomes an expression of inner worlds: Beauty, indulgence, longing, wonder, but also profundity and pain; the variety of emotions seems almost infinite and becomes particularly tangible in the interplay, indeed downright confrontation, with nature. Baritone Malte Kebschull and his piano accompanist Philip Rivinius would like to explore this inseparable connection between man and nature in the next song recital in the klangwerk LIED concert series on Saturday, May 31, 2025 at 8 pm in the Humboldt Hall at Freiburger Hof. They have added further thematically related songs to the soundscapes of the great Romantics, including works by Viktor Ullmann and Gerald Finzi, which once again use completely different expressive colors and are delightfully contrasting or complementary to the Romantic emotional palette.

Both performers are former graduates of the Freiburg Musikhochschule and experienced chamber musicians with great enthusiasm for lieder singing. Baritone Malte Kebschull has appeared in various productions at the Stadttheater Freiburg and the Wilhelma Theater Stuttgart and has established himself as a concert and oratorio singer. Pianist Philip Rivinius now teaches as a vocal accompanist at the Freiburg University of Music and regularly performs as a lied accompanist in Germany, France and Switzerland.