Luigi DALLAPICCOLA Quattro liriche di Antonio Machado, Rencesvals;
Karl Amadeus HARTMANN Lamento;
Wolfgang von SCHWEINITZ Papiersterne

The latest in Orfeo's series devoted to contemporary lieder features works by three composers. Friends Luigi Dallapiccola and Karl Amadeus Hartmann were closely associated with the renaissance of the avant-garde in the wake of the Second World War, an event that caused both to withdraw from public life.

The third composer is Wolfgang von Schweinitz, born in 1953 and who shares with his older colleagues the desire to expound a humanitarian message alongside a firm grasp of compositional technique.

The singers all enjoy outstanding reputations both as lieder recitalists and as committed exponents of modern music. As such, they are representative of all the singers who have been involved in this series over the past 10 years. Together with Aribert Reimann, Bauni is the editor and driving force behind Orfeo's Contemporary Lieder Series. Bauni is also the pianist in Hartmann's Lamento and Dallapiccola's Quattro liriche di Antonio Machado, to which Mojca Erdmann brings her fresh-toned, agile and idiomatically secure soprano voice.