Lieder können fliegen

Rainer Maria Rilke is celebrating his 150th Birthday on the 4th of December and, without thinking about Birthday parties, I recorded an interview with the German-British composer Tom Lane. Enjoy listening to this amazing poem about music itself, set into music.

Wandlungsfähigkeit ist eine Gabe. Stilistische Vielfalt und sich wandelnde Seelenzustände finden bei der Komponistin Margarete Huber wie in einem schillernden Erzähl-Gewebe zusammen. Dabei fließen Stilmittel zwischen Barock und Mikrotonalität ineinander über und es entsteht ein musikalisches Seelenportrait -gesungen von Christine Reber, virtuos begleitet von Robert Bärwald.

Working together can become a blessing for a composer as well as a singer. If creating is a form of being, it becomes a present to ourselves. Sabine Bergk talks with Michael Finnissy and Lotte Betts-Dean about the creative process, of truly becoming the composition and about the blessing of existing together through music.

Discovering British Art Song is like taking turns and twists in undulating landscapes. Sabine Bergk talks with James Gilchrist and Nathan Williamson about the variety of the songs of Thomas Pitfield, an exceptional composer, poet, painter and peace activist (1903-1999). In Pitfield's songs, the beauty of the moment shines through delicate lines of shadows and light. In many songs, the poem and the composition originate from the same feather - Pitfield worked as his own singer songwriter, ahead of the times.