Classical concert
Swiss Love" recital
Schloss Waldegg
Waldeggstrasse 1, 4532 Feldbrunnen-St.Niklaus
With Franziska Heinzen (soprano) and Benjamin Mead (piano)
The Swiss Art Song - With Franziska Heinzen (soprano) and Benjamin Mead (piano)
Swiss Love is a musical declaration of love to Swiss song and the rich tradition of Swiss folk songs. The fact that the British composer Benjamin Britten, of all people, arranged the Guggisberglied in the 1940s - albeit in French under the title "Il est quelqu'un sur terre" - shows how widespread and impressive this melody and the motif of supposedly eternal and yet broken love are. This theme runs through the entire concert program - as does the highly romantic symbol of the night: a space full of intense feelings, characterized by loneliness and togetherness, longing, consolation and reflection.
Concert program
Folk song, Arr. Cheryl Frances-Hoad (*1980)
Schönster Abestärn (Anonymous)
Wilhelm Baumgartner (1820-1867)
4 songs op. 20
Night lies on the strange ways (Heine)
Warm and silent night (Kugler)
Heidi Stucki (1915-2012), Arr. Flurina Zehnder (*1997)
You ask me, who I am (Zulliger)
Yvonne Röthlisberger (1889-1980)
Songs from "7 Lieder"
From an anxious breast (Dehmel)
Longing for oblivion (Lenau)
Folk song, Arr. Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)
Il est quelqu'un sur terre - 's isch äben e Mönsch uf Ärde (Anonymous)
Marguerite Roesgen-Champion (1894-1976)
La ruche (Virès)
Secret (Roesgen-Champion)
Mélodie (Roesgen-Champion)
Aujourd'hui le ciel est joyeux! (Roesgen-Champion)
Eugen Meier (*1934)
Ds Hittuliechtje (Taugwalder)
Johann Carl Eschmann (1826-1882)
The stars shone so golden (Eichendorff)
On the sea (Müller)
For you are far away (Geibel)
Nightly the Lord makes the round' (Eichendorff)
Arthur Beul (1915-2010) Arr. Raban Brunner (*1998)
There is a star in the sky (Beul)
Franziska Heinzen
With her nuanced soprano voice and captivating stage presence, Franziska Heinzen puts her stamp on classical works such as Haydn's Seasons and Dvorak's Stabat Mater as well as baroque and contemporary works. She has taken part in numerous world premieres, opera and operetta productions and has made guest appearances at the Mozartfest Würzburg, the theaters in Ulm, Trier and Hagen as well as the Tonhalle Zurich. As a song duo with pianist Benjamin Mead, she continues to set new accents with CD recordings and curated song programs, including at the Schumannfest Düsseldorf, Andermatt Music and the Schubertaida Vilabertran. Together they founded the Rhonefestival für Liedkunst. In the 2025/26 season, she will perform as part of the Liedduo at the Schubertiade RTS and at Schloss Waldegg, take part in the operetta Leuk and interpret Verdi's Requiem. She conveys her enthusiasm for music and the voice as her very own instrument as a singing teacher, including at the Conservatoire de Sion and, from fall 2025, as a lecturer in didactics at the Basel University of Music.
Benjamin Mead
Benjamin Mead inspires as a sensitive and creative song designer with performances at venues including Wigmore Hall, Tonhalle Düsseldorf, L'Auditori Barcelona, Deutsche Oper am Rhein and Andermatt Music. With great passion, he combines classics of the repertoire with rarely heard treasures - together with artists such as Franziska Heinzen, Liam Bonthrone and Jessica Niles. His albums have been internationally acclaimed, nominated for the Opus Klassik and awarded by the German Record Critics. Mead teaches at the Royal Academy of Music in London, among others.
Note: This text was translated by machine translation software and not by a human translator. It may contain translation errors.
Swiss Love is a musical declaration of love to Swiss song and the rich tradition of Swiss folk songs. The fact that the British composer Benjamin Britten, of all people, arranged the Guggisberglied in the 1940s - albeit in French under the title "Il est quelqu'un sur terre" - shows how widespread and impressive this melody and the motif of supposedly eternal and yet broken love are. This theme runs through the entire concert program - as does the highly romantic symbol of the night: a space full of intense feelings, characterized by loneliness and togetherness, longing, consolation and reflection.
Concert program
Folk song, Arr. Cheryl Frances-Hoad (*1980)
Schönster Abestärn (Anonymous)
Wilhelm Baumgartner (1820-1867)
4 songs op. 20
Night lies on the strange ways (Heine)
Warm and silent night (Kugler)
Heidi Stucki (1915-2012), Arr. Flurina Zehnder (*1997)
You ask me, who I am (Zulliger)
Yvonne Röthlisberger (1889-1980)
Songs from "7 Lieder"
From an anxious breast (Dehmel)
Longing for oblivion (Lenau)
Folk song, Arr. Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)
Il est quelqu'un sur terre - 's isch äben e Mönsch uf Ärde (Anonymous)
Marguerite Roesgen-Champion (1894-1976)
La ruche (Virès)
Secret (Roesgen-Champion)
Mélodie (Roesgen-Champion)
Aujourd'hui le ciel est joyeux! (Roesgen-Champion)
Eugen Meier (*1934)
Ds Hittuliechtje (Taugwalder)
Johann Carl Eschmann (1826-1882)
The stars shone so golden (Eichendorff)
On the sea (Müller)
For you are far away (Geibel)
Nightly the Lord makes the round' (Eichendorff)
Arthur Beul (1915-2010) Arr. Raban Brunner (*1998)
There is a star in the sky (Beul)
Franziska Heinzen
With her nuanced soprano voice and captivating stage presence, Franziska Heinzen puts her stamp on classical works such as Haydn's Seasons and Dvorak's Stabat Mater as well as baroque and contemporary works. She has taken part in numerous world premieres, opera and operetta productions and has made guest appearances at the Mozartfest Würzburg, the theaters in Ulm, Trier and Hagen as well as the Tonhalle Zurich. As a song duo with pianist Benjamin Mead, she continues to set new accents with CD recordings and curated song programs, including at the Schumannfest Düsseldorf, Andermatt Music and the Schubertaida Vilabertran. Together they founded the Rhonefestival für Liedkunst. In the 2025/26 season, she will perform as part of the Liedduo at the Schubertiade RTS and at Schloss Waldegg, take part in the operetta Leuk and interpret Verdi's Requiem. She conveys her enthusiasm for music and the voice as her very own instrument as a singing teacher, including at the Conservatoire de Sion and, from fall 2025, as a lecturer in didactics at the Basel University of Music.
Benjamin Mead
Benjamin Mead inspires as a sensitive and creative song designer with performances at venues including Wigmore Hall, Tonhalle Düsseldorf, L'Auditori Barcelona, Deutsche Oper am Rhein and Andermatt Music. With great passion, he combines classics of the repertoire with rarely heard treasures - together with artists such as Franziska Heinzen, Liam Bonthrone and Jessica Niles. His albums have been internationally acclaimed, nominated for the Opus Klassik and awarded by the German Record Critics. Mead teaches at the Royal Academy of Music in London, among others.
Note: This text was translated by machine translation software and not by a human translator. It may contain translation errors.
