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Schumann / Brahms / Britten - Liederkreis | Challenge Classics CC72687

Schumann / Brahms / Britten - Liederkreis

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Label: Challenge Classics

Cat No: CC72687

Barcode: 0608917268720

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Vocal/Choral

Release Date: 4th December 2015

Contents

Artists

Anna Lucia Richter (soprano)
Michael Gees (piano)

Works

Brahms, Johannes

Deutsche Volkslieder (14), WoO34
» no.8 In stiller Nacht, zur ersten Wacht
Deutsche Volkslieder (49), WoO33
» no.6 Da unten im Tale
» no.40 Ich weiss mir'n Maidlein hubsch und fein

Britten, Benjamin

Down by the Salley Gardens (traditional)
How Sweet the Answer
The Ash Grove
The Last Rose of Summer
The trees they grow so high

Schumann, Robert

Liederkreis, op.39

Artists

Anna Lucia Richter (soprano)
Michael Gees (piano)

About

The album 'Liederkreis' unusually features improvisation in a classic genre by a singer, young soprano Anna Lucia Richter, and a pianist, Michael Gees, with Schumann's famous song-cycle interleaved with songs by Brahms and Britten.

One of the best-known of all 19th century song-cycles, Liederkreis op.39 by Robert Schumann, is heard here in a fresh and intriguing context. Its 12 songs setting poems from Joseph Eichendorff's collection 'Intermezzo' are combined not only with folksong arrangements by Benjamin Britten and others by Johannes Brahms but also with improvisations on Eichendorff's poetry. The result is a new 'song circle' - a Liederkreis. Every one of the 27 songs in this cycle is related to the others in atmosphere, topic and musical identity.

Anna Lucia Richter has enjoyed a fast-rising reputation as one of her generation's leading sopranos, topping several major prizes by winning the International Robert Schumann Contest in Zwickau in 2012, and performing as a soloist under conductors such as Markus Stenz, Paavo and Kristjan Järvi, Marin Alsop, Iván Fischer and Christoph Altstaedt. In opera she has sung many roles with the Deutsche Oper am Rhein and elsewhere, and is becoming particularly known as a recitalist - among her accompanists have been Moritz Eggert, Michael Gees, Hartmut Höll, Igor Levit, Nicholas Rimmer and Gerold Huber. At his festival in Vicenza she performs regularly with András Schiff.

Michael Gees has appeared on Challenge Classics both as soloist - including improvised Schumann and Satie - and accompanying the singers Christoph Prégardien, Julian Prégardien and Julia Kleiter.

Track Listing:
1. Britten: The Trees They Grow So High
2. Schumann/Britten/Brahms: Extempore
3. Schumann: In Der Fremde
4. Schumann/Britten/Brahms: Extempore
5. Britten: The Ash Grove
6. Schumann: Intermezzo
7. Schumann: Waldesgesprach
8. Schumann: Die Stille
9. Schumann/Britten/Brahms: Extempore
10. Schumann: Mondnacht
11. Schumann: Schöne Fremde
12. Britten: How Sweet the Answer
13. Schumann: Auf Einer Burg
14. Brahms: In Stiller Nacht
15. Schumann: In der Fremde: Ich hör die Bächlein rauschen
16. Britten: The Last Rose of Summer
17. Schumann: Wehmut
18. Brahms: Da Unten Im Tale
19. Schumann/Britten/Brahms: Zauberblick (Extempore)
20. Schumann: Zwielicht
21. Brahms: Ich weiß mir'n Maidlein
22. Schumann: Im Walde
23. Schumann/Britten/Brahms: Extempore
24. Britten: The Salley Gardens
25. Schumann: Frühlingsnacht
26. Schumann/Britten/Brahms: Extempore
27. Schumann/Britten/Brahms: I Wonder As I Wander

Reviews

Taking Schumann’s Op. 39 Liederkreis as its starting point and inspiration, this programme creates a hypnotic continuum of dream and remembrances of things past, through the music of Schumann, Brahms and Britten – and, enchantingly, six of the performers’ own ‘improvisations’ (they’re really new compositions in their own right) on the poems of Eichendorff.  Hilary Finch
BBC Music Magazine August 2016

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