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Liszt - Orchestral Songs | Aparte AP324

Liszt - Orchestral Songs

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Label: Aparte

Cat No: AP324

Barcode: 5051083190442

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Vocal/Choral

Release Date: 23rd June 2023

Gramophone Editor's Choice

Contents

Works

Liszt, Franz

Die Lorelei, S369
Die Vatergruft, S371
Die drei Zigeuner, S374
Le Juif errant, S300
Lieder (6) von Franz Schubert, S375
» no.1 Die junge Nonne
» no.2 Gretchen am Spinnrade
» no.3 Lied der Mignon
» no.4 Erlkonig
» no.5 Der Doppelganger, D957 no.13
Titan (Auf des Athos blauen Felsenspitzen), S79 no.2
Weimars Toten, S303

Artists

Thomas Hampson (baritone)
Sunhae Im (soprano)
Stephanie Houtzeel (mezzo-soprano)
Tomasz Konieczny (bass-baritone)
Orchester Wiener Akademie

Conductor

Martin Haselbock

Works

Liszt, Franz

Die Lorelei, S369
Die Vatergruft, S371
Die drei Zigeuner, S374
Le Juif errant, S300
Lieder (6) von Franz Schubert, S375
» no.1 Die junge Nonne
» no.2 Gretchen am Spinnrade
» no.3 Lied der Mignon
» no.4 Erlkonig
» no.5 Der Doppelganger, D957 no.13
Titan (Auf des Athos blauen Felsenspitzen), S79 no.2
Weimars Toten, S303

Artists

Thomas Hampson (baritone)
Sunhae Im (soprano)
Stephanie Houtzeel (mezzo-soprano)
Tomasz Konieczny (bass-baritone)
Orchester Wiener Akademie

Conductor

Martin Haselbock

About

Franz Liszt’s art songs form a fascinating repertoire. His lieder served as a vehicle for his own artistic and aesthetic development, but also as inspiration for his contemporaries, who soon followed in his footsteps in composing songs for voice and orchestra.

Devoted to the latter aspect of the composer’s output, this recording by Martin Haselböck and the Orchester Wiener Akademie presents Liszt’s original compositions for voice and orchestra, together with arrangements of his own songs and ones by Franz Schubert, thus embracing different aspects of his work, and bringing out the exceptional lyricism and expressive power that characterise them.

The repertoire is performed here by the ‘ambassador of song’, baritone Thomas Hampson, soprano Sunhae Im, mezzo-soprano Stephanie Houtzeel, and bass-baritone Tomasz Konieczny.

This album also enables listeners to discover previously unrecorded orchestral versions of Der Doppelgänger, Die Vätergruft, Weimars Toten, Le Juif errant and Der Titan.

Reviews

Thomas Hampson’s voice has held up well, and his rhetorical acumen keeps us transfixed. The other singers are similarly well matched to the music. Stephanie Houtzeel braids the seductiveness and mournfulness of ‘Die Lorelei’ perfectly; Sunhae Im has the radiant purity and innocence her three songs require; and in ‘Der Titan’, Tomasz Konieczny, an experienced Alberich and Wotan, rages with overwhelming power. ... The engineering is excellent. ...this revelatory release is near perfect.  Peter J Rabinowitz
Gramophone September 2023

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