Night Fantasies

Roemerbad-Musiktage–literally Music Days–are the unique festivals that hotelier and Renaissance man Klaus Lauer organized for more than three decades at the Hotel Roemerbad, a resort in the quaint spa town of Badenweiler, Germany.

Night Fantasies, programmed by Klaus Lauer, is a Musiktage Festival heard for the first time outside of Badenweiler.

Thursday, November 20 – Program I
Claude Debussy Jeux for Two Pianos (arr. Jean-Efflam Bavouzet
Elliott Carter Night Fantasies for Piano
Maurice Ravel Rapsodie espagnole for Two Pianos
George Crumb Music for a Summer Evening (Makrokosmos III) for Two Amplified Pianos and Percussion

Friday, November 21 – Program II
Gyorgy Ligeti String Quartet No. 1 “Metamorphoses nocturnes”
George Crumb Black Angels (Thirteen Images from the Dark Land)
Alban Berg Lyric Suite for String Quartet
Ernest Chausson Chanson perpetuelle for Voice and Piano Quintet, Op. 37

Saturday, November 22 – Program III
Abel Decaux Clairs de lune for Piano
Alban Berg Seven Early Songs for Voice and Piano
George Crumb Apparition for Soprano and Piano
Gustav Mahler Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen and Um Mitternacht from Ruckert Lieder for Voice and Piano

Sunday, November 23 – Program IV
Robert Schumann Gesaenge der Fruhe (Early Morning Songs) for Piano, Op. 133
Frederic Chopin Berceuse in D-flat major for Piano, Op. 57
Claude Debussy Suite bergamasque for Piano
Olivier Messiaen La chouette hulotte and L’alouette lulu from Catalogue d’oiseaux for Piano
Alexander Scriabin Poeme-nocturne for Piano, Op. 61
Bela Bartok Szabadban (Out of Doors), Suite for Piano, Sz. 81, BB 89