Lord Byron and the Jungfrau – A Year Without Summer (1816)

The pianist Louis Schwizgebel, actor Di Sherlock, narrator Ian Ritchie and photographer Alberto Venzago present an evening of music and poetry. Liszt / Schubert's 'Erlkönig'; Byron on his separation from Lady Byron (February 1816); Beethoven's 'Moonlight' Sonata (Mvt 1); a letter from Byron to Lady Byron (February 1816); Fanny Hensel - Mendelssohn's March from 'Das Jahr'; Byron's 'Fare Thee Well!'; Mary Shelley's Preface to 'Frankenstein'; Liszt's 'Cloches de Genève'; Byron's 'I had a dream from Darkness'; Fanny Hensel - Mendelssohn's 'September' from 'Das Jahr'; Byron's to Augusta, from Alpine Journal (Lake Geneva, September 1816); Byron's 'We are the fools of time and terror' from 'Manfred'; Judith Bingham's 'Byron, Violent Progress' (Byron, Aidan Andrew Dun, Liszt); A melodrama: theme and 13 variations; Schubert's 'Abschied von der Erde' (piano only); Byron's 'Once more upon the waters!' from 'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage'; and Mendelssohn's Rondo Capriccioso, Op 14.