The Beautiful Magelone / OEHL - Song.Fest I

Teresa Präauer | Texts and Reading
Rafael Fingerlos | Baritone
Sascha El Mouissi | Piano
Oehl
Ariel Oehl | Singer-Songwriter
Romi Rabic | Double Bass / Violin / Piano / Voice
Niklas Apfel | Concert Guitar / Voice

Johannes Brahms: The Beautiful Magelone (reimagined)

At the center of this evening, alongside the 15 set romances, is the award-winning author Teresa Präauer, who, with much humor, a charming wink, and her unique linguistic power, opens new perspectives on Johannes Brahms' only song cycle "The Beautiful Magelone." While the intertexts of the original version come from Ludwig Tieck's time, they are deliberately left behind in this new version: Präauer has written entirely new texts, which she reads and interprets live—connecting words and music in a contemporary, sometimes surprising, but always emotional way.

Together with the internationally successful baritone Rafael Fingerlos, who sees the classical art song as a personal passion and continues it through his charismatic, authentic, and highly emotional storytelling, and his song partner, pianist Sascha El Mouissi, a multifaceted musical-literary experience is created.

With much creativity, linguistic wit, fine humor, and great emotionality, the story of Peter and Magelone is brought into the 21st century, and a central work of song literature is retold.

In the second part of the evening, the duo Oehl—centered around singer-songwriter Ariel Oehl—presents a program that bridges to contemporary song language. In this lineup, pop and poetry merge into an honest and emotional form of musical storytelling. Oehl's art thrives on linguistic artistry, lyrical precision, atmospheric depth, and a fine sense for subtle nuances, and—deeply connected to the song tradition—features songs in which language and music intertwine inseparably.

That song remains a powerful and contemporary form of expressing feelings musically is once again immediately palpable here.

Disclaimer: Genre-crossing surprises are explicitly not excluded. The artists of the first half of the concert will remain in the hall—and perhaps not just as listeners...

An evening for song lovers—and for all who wish to become one.