Art Song Canberra: The Mysterious Forest

Pianist Bernadette Harvey joins soprano Susannah Lawergren for a selection of songs about the mysteries of nature, bookended by two versions of ‘The Forest’ by Mozart and Ross Edwards. Nestled between exquisite cycles of songs by Mozart, Grieg, Haydn and Edwards, we are brought briefly back to reality in Katy Abbott’s ‘The Domestic Sublime’, where laundry is considered as worthy of poetry and music as Nature and conclude with the most mysterious, beautifully atmospheric songs in the program, Ross Edwards’ ‘Five Australian Songs’, written between 1979 and 2021, the final one written especially for Susannah and Bernadette.