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Frank Martin's Le vin herbé Performed by Cappella Amsterdam

Mar. 10, 2022

Cappella Amsterdam, conducted by conductor Daniel Reuss, performs Frank Martin's Le vin herbé with soloists Thomas Walker and Carolyn Sampson as Tristan and Isolde. The work is given a contemporary adaptation under the direction of Ulrike Quade in an animated setting by the artist duo WANDSCHAPPEN, with choreography by Emio Greco and Pieter C. Scholten. For those who want to experience Le vin herbé purely musically, the piece is performed without puppets, dance and decor in the Nieuwe Kerk in The Hague.


(Cappella Amsterdam presents Frank Martin's Le vin herbé)

“A Tristan with a difference” – that was how the critic of the Neues Österreich newspaper described Frank Martin’s Le Vin herbé (The Magic Potion) after the first staged performance of this secular oratorio at the 1948 Salzburg Festival. The concert version had already been premiered six years previously in Zurich. In its more than 60-year history Le vin herbé (based on Joseph Bédier’s novel Tristan and Iseult) has enjoyed countless concert performances and several staged productions. In recent years it has been seen as a chamber opera in Zurich, Paris and Berlin. 

To learn more about Frank Martin, visit: universaledition.com.

Frank Martin
Le vin herbé (1938-1941)
for 12 voices, seven strings, and piano
Text by Joseph Bédier, adapted by Rudolf Georg Binding
2vn.2va.2vc.cb.pno
90'

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