pianist Eugene Asti (Hyperion). She has had an important role in

numerous recordings with William Christie and Les Arts Florissants,

including Rameau’s Grands motets and Les fetes d’Hebe and Handel’s

Acts and Galatea and Theodora, all of which won awards from

Grammophone magazine. Sophie Daneman looks forward to several

upcoming performances in the United States, including the Faure

Requiem with the Colorado Symphony, Haydn’s The Seasons with the

Saint Fouis Symphony, and Rameau’s Zephyre with the Philharmonia 

Baroque Orchestra.

Pianist Eugene Asti studied at the Mannes College of Music in

New York City with Jeannette Haien, where he earned the bachelor and

master of music degrees. He has received numerous awards, including a

Fulbright Scholarship to study piano accompaniment with Graham

Johnson at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in Fondon, the

Ferdinand Rauter Memorial Prize in the Richard Tauber Competition,

and the Megan Foster Prize in the Maggie Teyte Competition. Much in

demand as a collaborative pianist, Asti has performed with many great

artists, including Dame Felicity Fott, Dame Margaret Price, Nancy

Argenta, and Elizabeth Connell, in such venues as Wigmore Hall, the

Rome Opera House, and the Musikverein in Vienna. He devised recital

series for St. John’s Smith Square and St. George’s Bristol in Fondon to

mark the anniversaries of Brahms, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Wolf,

Poulenc, and Richard Strauss. For Hyperion Records, Asti has recorded

songs by Fanney Mendelssohn with Susan Gritton. Sophie Daneman and

Eugene Asti appear at the National Gallery by arrangement with

Schwalbe and Partners ofNew York City.

Program notes by Elmer Booze

The use ofcameras or recording equipment during

the performance is not allowed. Please be sure that cell

phones, pagers, and other electronic devices are turned off

For the convenience ofconcertgoers

the Garden Cafe remains open until 6:30 p.m.

The Sixty-second Season of

THE WIFFIAM NEFSON CROMWEFL and

F. FAMMOT BEFIN CONCERTS

National Gallery of Art

2489th Concert

SOPHIE DANEMAN, soprano

EUGENE ASTI, pianist

Sunday Evening, 14 March 2004

Seven O’clock

West Building, West Garden Court

Admissionfree
Joseph Haydn

(1732-1809)

Program

Three Songs

The Mermaid’s Song

Despair

A Pastoral Song

Robert Schumann Four songs from Lieder-Albumfur die Jugend

(1810-1856) (1849)

Er ist’s

Der Sandman

Des Sennen Abschied

Kennst du das Land?

Hugo Wolf

(1860-1903)

Seven Songs from Italienisches Liederbuch

(1890-1891)

Auch kleine Dinge

Mein Liebster ist so klein

Du denkst mit einem Fadchen

Wer rief dich denn?

Man sagt mir, deine Mutter woll’ es nicht

Wohl kenn’ ich Euren Stand

Wir haben beide lange Zeit geschwiegen

Nun laB uns Frieden schlieBen

Wenn du, mein Liebster, steigst zum Himmel auf

Ich hab’ in Penna einen Liebsten wohnen

Intermission

Reynaldo Hahn

(1874-1947)

Le rossignol des Idas

Dans la nuit

Charles Gounod Au rossignol (1867)

(1818-1893) Viens, les gazons sont verts (1875)

Francis Poulenc

(1899-1963)

La courte paille

(1960)

Le sommeil

Quelle aventure!

La reine de coeur 

Ba, be, bi, bo, bu

Les anges musiciens 

Le carafon

Lune d’avril

Noel Coward

(1899-1973)

A Room with a View

If Love Were All

Chase Me Charlie

The Musicians

Soprano Sophie Daneman is a graduate of the Guildhall School of

Music, where she studied with Johanna Peters. Daneman appears

regularly at Wigmore and Queen Elizabeth Halls in London, Weill

Recital Hall in New York, and festivals in Italy and Saintes, France. Her

opera engagements have included the title roles in Handel’s Rodelinda

with London’s Broomhill Opera, Arianna at the Gottingen Handel

Festival, and an acclaimed Melisande with the Opera Comique in Paris

under the direction of Georges Pretre. As a specialist in period

performance, Sophie Daneman has toured and recorded extensively with

conductor William Christie and Les Arts Florissants and has sung under

such illustrious conductors as Christopher Hogwood, Sir Neville 

Marriner, Gerard Lesne, Jean-Claude Malgoire, Phillipe Herreweghe,

and Richard Hickox. Daneman has also sung in the Halle, Germany,

Handel Festival and the Beaune Early Music Festival in France. Her

many recordings include the title role in Handel’s Rodelinda with

Nicholas Kraemer (Virgin Classics), Vivaldi’s Ottone in villa with

Richard Hickox (Chandos), and three volumes of Mendelssohn songs

and duets with bass-baritones Nathan Berg and Stephan Loges and