If Music Be the Food of Love – Shakespeare in Music and Words

A unique program featuring chamber works, arias and songs inspired by William Shakespeare’s famous plays. 

Yael Kareth, piano
Yael Levita, soprano

Liav Kerbel, cello

Refael Abas, actor

Program

Johannes Brahms: 5 Ophelia songs

How shall I know your true love?

His shroud is as white

Tomorrow in St. Valentine’s Day

The bore him bare-faced on the bier

And will he not come again?

Richard Strauss: 3 Ophelia songs Opus 63

How shall I know your true love?

Tomorrow in St. Valentine’s Day

They bore him bare-faced on the bier

Sergei Prokofiev: 2 excerpts from Romeo and Juliet suite for piano solo

Young Juliet - Father Lawrence 

Roger Quilter: 3 Shakespeare Songs

Come away death (12th Night)

O mistress mine (12th Night)

Blow, blow, thou winter wind (As You Like It)

Ned Rorem: 3 excerpts from After Reading Shakespeare for cello solo

Lear – Katharine - Lear 

Erich Wolfgang Korngold: Much Ado About Nothing, suite for cello and piano

Erich Wolfgang Korngold: 4 Shakespeare songs Opus 31

Desdemona’s Song (Othello)

Under the Greenwood Tree (As You Like It)

Blow, blow thou winter wind (As you Like It)

When birds do sing (As You Like It)

William Shakespeare: Sonnets