RAPSOVOCE PERFORMANCE COLLECTIVE brings together pianist Nancy Loo, baritone Caleb Woo and soprano Jasmine Law, presenting a German song recital of Arnold Schoenberg’s Das Buch der Hängenden Gärten (The Book of the Hanging Gardens), Op. 15, and selections by Johannes Brahms, whom Schoenberg hailed as a great progressive, a great innovator in the realm of musical language. The Book of the Hanging Gardens, Op. 15, is Schoenberg’s fifteen-part song cycle composed between 1908 and 1909, set to the poems of Stefan George. It is the first composition in Schoenberg’s atonal period. The poems of the ‘Hanging Gardens’ are all miniatures, elliptically relating the progress of an intense, ultimately doomed love-affair between two young lovers, ending with the woman’s departure and the disintegration of the garden. Performers: Jasmine Law 羅曉晴 (soprano) Caleb Woo 胡永正 (baritone) Nancy Loo 羅乃新 (piano) Programme: Johannes Brahms Am Sonntag Morgen Op. 49 No. 1 Feldeinsamkeit Op. 86 No. 6 Vier ernste Gesänge Op. 121 Arnold Schoenberg Das Buch der hängenden Gärten Op. 15 - For ages 6+