Franz Peter Schubert

(1797-1828)

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Christoph Eschenbach: The Early Recordings

Christoph Eschenbach: The Early Recordings

Beethoven:

Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor, Op. 37

London Symphony Orchestra, Hans Werner Henze

Piano Concerto No. 5 in E flat major, Op. 73 'Emperor'

Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa

Piano Sonata No. 29 in B-flat major, Op. 106 'Hammerklavier'

Chopin:

Preludes (24), Op. 28

Henze:

Piano Concerto No. 2

London Philharmonic Orchestra, Hans Werner Henze

Schubert:

Piano Sonata No. 20 in A major, D959

Piano Sonata No. 21 in B flat major, D960

Schumann:

Kinderszenen, Op. 15

Christoph Eschenbach (piano)

Born in 1941, and currently chief conductor of the Orchestre de Paris, Christoph Eschenbach is one of today’s foremost conductor-pianists. This fascinating retrospective focuses on his brilliant early career as a pianist, when his searching musical intelligence, formidable technique and enthusiastic engagement with the music of his, and our, time produced many recordings that have stood the test of time.

Ates Orga’s detailed booklet notes offer a personal account from the man himself of his troubled start in life as an orphan, without the power of speech, learning to love and communicate through music. His quite fierce style is shaped by his admiration of great German intellectual musicians such as Edwin Fischer and Wilhelm Furtwängler, and finds an ideal analogue in the works of Beethoven, such as the Third and Fifth Piano Concertos, and the mighty ‘Hammerklavier’ Sonata included in this set. Equally his refinement, evident nowadays in the French music he conducts in Paris and in his recordings with the Philadelphia orchestra, is reflected in his early portrayals of the romantic genius of Chopin (the Préludes) and Schumann (Kinderszenen).

His long friendship with Hans Werner Henze led the great German composer to write the Piano Concerto No.2 for Eschenbach, and this vast, Shakespeare-inspired work remains Henze at his boldest and most compelling, like Eschenbach himself, soaked in the German artistic tradition but finding new outgrowths from it.

Of appeal to connoisseurs of the piano and to new-music enthusiasts Will receive coverage in the serious musical press.

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Schubert: Darkness or Light

Schubert: Darkness or Light

Selected Schubert Lieder

Schubert:

Der Strom, D565 (poet unknown)

Auf der Donau, D553 (Mayrhofer)

Fahrt zum Hades, D526 (Mayrhofer)

Grenzen der Menschheit, D716

Der Pilgrim, D794 (Schiller)

Grablied fur die Mutter D616 (poet unknown)

Hoffnung, D637

Wandrers Nachtlied II 'Über allen Gipfeln ist Ruh', D768

Die Mutter Erde, D788 (Stolberg)

Der Jungling und der Tod, D545 (Spaun)

An den Tod D518 (Schubart)

Der Tod und das Mädchen, D531

Totengräberweiss D869 (Schlechta)

Totengräberlied, D44 (Hölty)

Das Grab D569 (Salis-Seewis)

Totengräbers Heimwehe D842 (Craigher)

Litanei auf das Fest Allerseelen, D343

Cornelius Hauptmann (bass) & Eric Schneider (piano)

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Schubert: Piano Trio No. 2 in E flat major, D929

Schubert: Piano Trio No. 2 in E flat major, D929

Narziss & Goldmund Piano Trio

The Narziss und Goldmund Piano Trio was founded in 1999 and strives for a balanced approach to music in which emotion and intellect go hand in hand. Every year they give numerous concerts, particularly in Belgium, the Netherlands and Spain.

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Schubert: Grand Duo

Schubert: Grand Duo

Schubert:

Variations in A flat major on a original theme, D813

Grand Duo Sonata in C major, D812

Marches Militaires (3), D733

Daniel Barenboim, Radu Lupu (piano duet)

“Lupu and Barenboim are a dream team in Schubert's masterpieces for piano duet. The intimate form turns truly symphonic in the Grand Duo.” BBC Music Magazine, November 2010 *****

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Rudolf Kempe: The Genius of the Podium

Rudolf Kempe: The Genius of the Podium

Includes

Beethoven:

Symphony No. 1 in C major, Op. 21

Symphony No. 3 in E flat major, Op. 55 'Eroica'

Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67

Symphony No. 6 in F major, Op. 68 'Pastoral'

Brahms:

Symphony No. 3 in F major, Op. 90

Symphony No. 4 in E minor, Op. 98

Dvorak:

Symphony No. 9 in E minor, Op. 95 'From the New World'

Scherzo capriccioso, Op. 66

Humperdinck:

Hänsel & Gretel Overture

Hänsel & Gretel: Witch's Ride

Hansel und Gretel: Traumszene

Mascagni:

L'Amico Fritz: Intermezzo

Mendelssohn:

A Midsummer Night's Dream - incidental music, Op. 61

Offenbach:

Orphée aux Enfers Overture

Ponchielli:

La Gioconda (excerpts)

Rimsky Korsakov:

Scheherazade, Op. 35

Schubert:

Incidental music to Rosamunde, D797

Smetana:

The Bartered Bride Overture

The Bartered Bride: Three Dances (Polka, Furiant, Skocná - Dance of the Comedians)

Strauss, J, II:

Die Fledermaus Overture

Strauss, R:

Don Quixote, Op. 35

Tod und Verklärung, Op. 24

Salome: Dance of the Seven Veils

Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche, Op. 28

Ein Heldenleben, Op. 40

Kindskopf! Merkt auf, wir spielen mit in dem Stück (from Ariadne auf Naxos)

Sylvia Geszty (Zerbinetta), Teresa Zylis-Gara (Komponist)

An ihre Plätze, meine Damen und Herrn! (from Ariadne auf Naxos)

Theo Adam (Musiklehr)

Wagner:

Lohengrin: Preludes to Acts 1 & 3

Bridal Chorus 'Treulich geführt' (from Lohengrin)

In fernem Land (from Lohengrin)

Jess Thomas (Lohengrin)

Selig, wie die Sonne (from Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg)

Gerhard Unger (David), Elisabeth Grummer (Eva), Marga Hoffgen (Magdalene), Rudolf Schock (Walther), Ferdinand Frantz (Sachs)

Morgenlich leuchtend im rosigen Schein 'Prize Song' (from Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg)

Rudolf Schock (Walther)

Verachtet mir die Meister nicht (from Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg)

Ferdinand Frantz (Sachs)

Parsifal: Prelude to Act 1

Parsifal: Good Friday Music

Sankt Krispin, lobet ihn! (from Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg)

Heil! König Heinrich (from Lohengrin)

Morgenröte (from Lohengrin)

Was bringen die? Was tun sie kund? (from Lohengrin)

lhr tanzt? Was werden die Meister sagen? (from Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg)

Gerhard Unger (David)

Weinberger:

Schwanda the Bagpiper: Polka

Rudolf Kempe

The German conductor Rudolf Kempe (1910–1976) began his musical career playing the oboe in various symphony orchestras. He eventually graduated to being a conductor after working for several years as an operatic repetiteur. His modest manner on the podium belied his great authority in controlling an orchestra, and his warm but meticulously detailed interpretations of the main classical repertoire established him as one of the leading conductors of his time.

The programme begins with recordings of four Beethoven Symphonies that Kempe made with the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra in 1971–72 as part of a complete cycle that has been critically acclaimed, although it has not previously been widely available.

These are followed by Symphonies 3 and 4 by Brahms with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra respectively, two orchestras with which Kemper was closely associated throughout his career.

The next CD shows Kempe’s skill with descriptive ‘programme’ music in Mendelssohn’s delightful incidental music to Shakespeare’s ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ and Rimsky-Korsakov’s colourful orchestral suite Scheherazade depicting a number of tales from the 1001 Arabian Nights.

Then comes music by three Bohemian composers: the opening of the famous ‘Largo’ from Dvorák’s ‘New World’ Symphony; the Polka from Schwanda the Bagpiper by Weinberger; and a suite from Smetana’s lively opera The Bartered Bride.

CDs 6 and 7 present several of the main orchestral works by Richard Strauss, including Don Juan., Ein Heldenleben, Till Eulenspiegel, Tod und Verklärung and Don Quixote, all except the last recorded with the Staatskapelle Dresden, an orchestra closely associated with the works of Richard Strauss.

CD 8 moves to the opera house and includes vocal extracts from Richard Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos and Wagner’s Lohengrin and Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg. The next CD covers orchestral pieces from opera, including a suite arranged by Kempe himself from Hansel und Gretel by Humperdinck

On CD 10 we find Kempe in lighter mood with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra in a programme of orchestral bon-bons that was called Vienna Philharmonic ‘On Holiday’ when it was originally released on LP. Tthe final CD covers some of the best loved music by the Strauss family. The very last track in the album is the waltz Gold und Silber by Franz Lehár, which Kempe considered the finest studio recording he ever made.

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Pierre Fournier: The Aristocrat of Cellists

Pierre Fournier: The Aristocrat of Cellists

CD 1

01 I. Nicht zu schnell -: Cello Concerto in A (Robert Schumann)

02 II. Langsam - Etwas lebhafter - Schneller (C (Robert Schumann)

03 III. Sehr lebhaft: Cello Concerto in A minor (Robert Schumann)

04 4 Variations on a Rococo Theme in A major, Op.33 ( (Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky)

05 I Allegro: Double Concerto in A minor Op. 102 (Johannes Brahms)

06 II Andante: Double Concerto in A minor Op. 102 (Johannes Brahms)

07 III Vivace non troppo: Double Concerto in A min (Johannes Brahms)

CD 2

01 I. Allegro: Cello Concerto in B minor B191 (Antonín Dvorák)

02 II. Adagio ma non troppo: Cello Concerto in (Antonín Dvorák)

03 III. Finale (Allegro moderato): Cello Concert (Antonín Dvorák)

04 Allegro non troppo: Cello Concerto No.1 in A Mino (Camille Saint-Saëns)

05 Allegretto con moto: Cello Concerto No.1 in A Min (Camille Saint-Saëns)

06 Allegro non troppo: Cello Concerto No.1 in A Mino (Camille Saint-Saëns)

07 Variations On A Rococo Theme In A Major Op.33 (Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky)

CD 3

01 2 (Op. 101) (arr. Gevaert) (1997 Digital Remaster)

02 2 (Op. 101) (arr. Gevaert) (1997 Digital Remaster)

03 2 (Op. 101) (arr. Gevaert) (1997 Digital Remaster)

04 I Allegro Moderato (Remasterisé En 1997): Sonata (Franz Schubert)

05 II Adagio (Remasterisé En 1997): Sonata For Arpeg (Franz Schubert)

06 III Allegretto (3eme Mvt) (Remasterisé En 1997): (Franz Schubert)

07 I Zart Und Mit Ausdruck (Remasterisé En 1997): Fa (Robert Schumann)

08 II Lebhaft, Leicht (Remasterisé En 1997): Fantasi (Robert Schumann)

09 III Rasch, Mit Feuer (Remasterisé En 1997): Fanta (Robert Schumann)

10 I Allegro Tempo Di Marcia (Remasterisé En 1998): (Francis Poulenc)

11 II Cavatine (Remasterisé En 1998): Sonata For Cel (Francis Poulenc)

12 III Ballabile (Remasterisé En 1998): Sonata For C (Francis Poulenc)

13 IV Finale (Remasterisé En 1998): Sonata For Cello (Francis Poulenc)

CD 4

01 I. Adagio sostenuto - Allegro: Sonata for Cello and Piano

02 II. Allegro vivace: Sonata for Cello and Piano

03 I. Adagio sostenuto ed espressivo: Sonata for Cello and Piano

04 I. - Allegro molto più tosto presto: Sonata for Cello and Piano

05 II. Rondo (Allegro): Sonata for Cello and Piano

06 I. Allegro ma non tanto: Sonata for Cello and Piano

07 II. Scherzo (Allegro molto): Sonata for Cello and Piano

08 III. Adagio cantabile - Allegro vivace: Sonata for Cello and Piano

09 Abendlied Op.85 N°12 (Remasterisé En 1997) (Robert Schumann)

10 Feldeinsamkeit Op.86 N°2 (Remasterisé En 1997) (Johannes Brahms)

11 No. 1 in F major (arr vlc. & pf.: Popper &

CD 5

01 I. Andante - Allegro vivace: Sonata for Cello and Piano

02 II. Adagio - Tempo d'Andante - Allegro vivace: Sonata for Cello and Piano

03 I. Allegro con brio:Sonata for Cello and Piano

04 II. Adagio con molto sentimento d'affetto: Sonata for Cello and Piano

05 III. Allegro - Allegro fugato: Sonata for Cello and Piano

06 Organ Concerto No.3 - Recitativo (2010 Digital Rem (Johann Sebastian Bach)

07 Sonata for cello and double bass - Minuet (Joseph Haydn)

08 Abendied, Op.85 No.12 (Robert Schumann)

09 Violin Sonata No.3, Op.10 No.3 - Larghetto Rondo (Carl Maria von Weber)

10 Elégie (Gabriel Fauré)

CD 6

01 I Allegro Molto Moderato (Remasterisé En 1988): P

02 II Allegro Molto (Remasterisé En 1988): Piano Quartet

03 III Adagio Non Troppo (Remasterisé En 1988): Piano Quartet

04 IV Allegro Molto (Remasterisé En 1988): Piano Quartet

05 Romance In A Op.69 (Remasterisé En 1997) (Gabriel Fauré)

06 Élégie, Op24 (Gabriel Fauré)

07 Berceuse, Op. 16 (Gabriel Fauré)

08 Pièce en forme de habanera (Maurice Ravel)

09 Rêverie (1997 Digital Remaster) (Camille Saint-Saëns)

10 Le Cygne: Carnaval des animaux (Camille Saint-Saëns/Chris Hazell)

11 Shylock - Nocturne (Remasterisé En 1997) (Gabriel Fauré)

12 Mavra - Chanson Russe (Remasterisé En 1997) (Igor Stravinsky)

13 Nocturne (arr. vlc. & pf.) (1997 Digital Remas

CD 7

01 Introduction and Polonaise brillant Op. 3 (2006 Di (Frédéric Franciszek Chopin)

02 Song without words Op. 109 (1997 Digital Remaster)

03 Hymn to the Sun (arr. Kreisler): Le Coq d'Or (199

04 The Flight of the Bumble-Bee (arr. Strimer): The (Nikolay Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov)

05 Le Cygne: Le Carnaval des animaux (1997 Digital R

06 Berceuse Op. 16 (1997 Digital Remaster)

07 El majo timido (arr. Fournier): 15 Tonadillas al

08 Intermezzo (arr. Gaspar Cassadó) (1997 Digital Re

09 La Gitana (arr. Kreisler) (Fritz Kreisler)

10 Papillon Op. 77 (1997 Digital Remaster)

11 Sicilienne Op. 78 (1997 Digital Remaster)

12 Prélude (arr. Rogues): L' Enfant prodigue (1997 D (A Claude Debussy)

13 Pièce en forme de habanera (arr. Bazelaire) (1997 (Maurice Ravel)

14 No. 1, Kaddisch (trans. Garban): 2 Mélodies hébra

15 O Mensch, bewein' dein' Sünde gross, BWV622

16 Herzlich tut mich verlangen, BWV727 (arr. Fournie

17 Ich ruf' zu dir, BWV639: Orgel-Büchlein BWV599-64

18 Num komm' der Heiden Heiland, BWV599: Orgel-Büchl

19 Sonata for Cello and Continuo No. 6 G6 (arr. Piatti)

Pierre Fournier (cello)

Pierre Fournier was born in Paris on 24 June in 1906 the son of a French army general. He was known for his lyrical playing and his impeccable artistic sensitivity and this, during his lifetime, earned him the title 'the aristocrat of cellists'.

Fournier was first taught piano by his mother but at the age of nine he suffered a mild case of polio and lost some of the agility in his legs and feet. He was no longer able to master the use of the piano pedals and so turned to the cello.

At the age of 17 he graduated from the Conservatoire in Paris and was hailed as 'the cellist of the future', winning praise for his virtuosity and bowing technique. During the 1920s he played in the Krettly String Quartet and joined the Concerts Colonne Orchestra. His growing fame brought him into contact with all the great musicians of the time and he started recording with many of them.

Fournier's catalogue of EMI recordings is not extensive but, as illustrated by this 7-CD set, it covers a wide range of music from Bach to Poulenc, all recorded over a period of 34 years – from 1937 to 1971.

Fournier remained an active performer almost to the end of his life. One of his last concerts was in London when he was 78. He died in 1986.

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Klaus Tennstedt conducts Dvorak & Schubert

Klaus Tennstedt conducts Dvorak & Schubert

Dvorak:

Violin Concerto in A minor, Op. 53

Peter Zazofsky (violin)

Schubert:

Symphony No. 9 in C major, D944 'The Great'

Berliner Philharmoniker, Klaus Tennstedt

There were two surprises in the April 1983 concerts, namely the young violinist Peter Zazofsky and Tennstedt’s reading of Schubert’s Great C major Symphony. Born in Boston, Zazovsky studied with Dorothy Delay, Jaime Laredo and Ivan Galamian at the Curtis Institute of Music. Starting in 1974 he won a number of prizes in competitions, including the 1980 silver medal at the Concours Musical International Reine Elisabeth in Brussels. In his Berlin début he demonstrated "the marks of the true virtuoso – the ability to take the interpretative lead in a theme" (Sybill Mahlke, Tagesspiegel). Wolfgang Schultze wrote in the Berliner Morgenpost of how the violinist "drew out the musical line in strong, bold strokes, with exemplary purity of intonation, exquisite taste and admirable sensitivity; he ably sustained the great sweep of the first two movements, the one leading into the other without a break, and the final movement, with its folk-music references, was presented with sparkling vitality – altogether a musician wholly dedicated to the work with no hint of the self-promoting virtuoso." Reactions to Tennstedt’s interpretation of the Schubert C major Symphony were uneven. His dynamic choice of tempo no doubt troubled some listeners; in the Andantes, both in the introduction to the first movement and in the second movement, most commonly heard at a more measured and unhurried pace, Tennstedt opted for faster, bolder tempi. Wolfgang Schultze (Berliner Morgenpost) wrote that the conductor had resorted to "a fairly brisk movement with ample momentum and powerful élan". But the result was "a somewhat agitated Schubert, notably coarse-grained, with exaggerated accentuation and too little romantic colouring’. According to Sybill Mahlke in the Tagesspiegel Tennstedt seemed unwilling to allow the score to "sing for itself", wanting everywhere to interpret, to read too much into every bar. "He works feverishly for every possible effect, to bring out every inner part, without allowing long phrases to breathe adequately in the slow introduction or in the Andante’s song-like line in the oboe and clarinet and second violins. In the third movement the return of the trio was strangely low-key; the Schubert that emerged was mannered and inauthentic, neglectful of innate features and spiritual qualities in the score." But reactions are hard to understand when we now listen to this recording in all its energy, dramatic intelligence and melodic fervour.

from the booklet note © Helge Grünewald, 2010

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Fritz Wunderlich: A Poet Among Tenors

Fritz Wunderlich: A Poet Among Tenors

CD 1

01 O schönes Weib (2000 Digital Remaster) (Heinrich Finck) - Fritz Wunderlich

02 Mein Freud allein (2000 Digital Remaster) (Heinrich Isaac (Um 1450-1517)) - Fritz Wunderlich

03 Amanda, darf man dich wohl küssen (Aria aus " (Adam Krieger) - Fritz Wunderlich

04 Recitative: Wie, schönste Göttin? wie? (Endymion) (Johann Sebastian Bach) - Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau/Erika Köth/Berliner Philh

05 Aria: Willst du dich nicht mehr ergetzen? (Endymi (Johann Sebastian Bach) - Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau/Erika Köth/Berliner Philh

06 Recitative: Ich liebe dich zwar noch! (Diana/Endy (Johann Sebastian Bach) - Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau/Erika Köth/Berliner Philh

07 Duet: Entzücket uns beide, ihr Strahlen der Freud (Johann Sebastian Bach) - Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau/Erika Köth/Berliner Philh

08 Ombra mai fu (Largo) (aus "Xerxes/Serse" (Georg Friedrich Händel (1685-1759)/Anon.) - Fritz Wunderlich/Bayerisches Staatsorchester/Hans

09 Konstanze, dich wiederzusehen (Belmonte / "Di (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart/Johann Gottlieb Stephanie) - Fritz Wunderlich/Berliner Symphoniker/Berislav Klo

10 Dies Bildnis ist bezaubernd schön (Tamino / " (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart/Emanuel Schikaneder) - Fritz Wunderlich/Berislav Klobucar

11 Lebe wohl, mein flandrisch Mädchen (Marquis von Ch (Albert Lortzing) - Fritz Wunderlich/Helga Hildebrand /Chor der Deutsc

12 Baron Kronthal - Baronin Freimann - Gräfin, 2.Akt (Gustav Albert Lortzing/Gustav Albert Lortzing) - Fritz Wunderlich/Anneliese Rothenberger/Gisela Lit

13 Baronin - Baron, 2.Akt) (1990 Digital Remaster): (Gustav Albert Lortzing/Gustav Albert Lortzing) - Fritz Wunderlich/Anneliese Rothenberger/Robert Heg

14 Komm, liebes Gretchen (Baron - Gretchen - Baculus (Gustav Albert Lortzing) - Fritz Wunderlich/Lotte Schädle/Fritz Ollendorff/Or

15 Eure Tochter - Meine Tochter (Fenton - Reich / (Otto Nicolai (1810-1849)/H.S. Mosenthal) - Fritz Wunderlich/Kieth Engen/Bayerisches Staatsorc

16 Horch, die Lerche singt im Hain (Romanze des Fento (Otto Nicolai/H.S. Mosenthal) - Fritz Wunderlich/Bayerisches Staatsorchester/Rober

17 Anna - Fenton, 2.Akt) (1990 Digital Remaster): Fe (Otto Nicolai/H.S. Mosenthal) - Fritz Wunderlich/Edith Mathis/Robert Heger/Bayeris

CD 2

01 Plumkett - Lyonel, 1.Akt) (1990 Digital Remaster) (Friedrich Flotow (1812-1883)/Wilhelm Friedrich) - Fritz Wunderlich/Gottlob Frick/Berliner Symphonike

02 Warte nur, das sollst du büßen! - Mitternacht (Pl (Friedrich Flotow (1812-1883)/Wilhelm Friedrich) - Fritz Wunderlich/Anneliese Rothenberger/Hetty Plüm

03 Ach, so fromm (Lyonel, 3.Akt): Martha (Ausschnitt (Friedrich Flotow (1812-1883)/Wilhelm Friedrich) - Fritz Wunderlich/Anneliese Rothenberger/Hetty Plüm

04 Jetzt, ihr Freunde, jung und alt (Nancy - Plumket (Friedrich Flotow (1812-1883)/Wilhelm Friedrich) - Fritz Wunderlich/Anneliese Rothenberger/Hetty Plüm

05 Nureddin, 1.Akt) (1990 Digital Remaster): So leb' (Peter Cornelius (1824-1874)/Peter Cornelius (1824-) - Fritz Wunderlich/Bayerisches Staatsorchester/Hans

06 Caramello - Chor - Annina, 1.Akt) (1990 Digital R (Johann Strauß (Sohn) (1825-1899)/Erich Wolfgang Ko) - Fritz Wunderlich/Lisa Otto/Günther-Arndt-Chor/Berl

07 Komm' in die Gondel (Caramello - Herzog): Eine Na (Johann Strauß/Friedrich Zell/Richard Genée) - Fritz Wunderlich/Rudolf Schock/Berliner Symphonike

08 Ach, wie so herrlich zu schau'n (Caramello): Eine (Johann Strauß/Friedrich Zell/Richard Genée) - Fritz Wunderlich/Rudolf Schock/Berliner Symphonike

09 Symon - Jan) (2000 Digital Remaster): Die Welt ha (Carl Millöcker/Friedrich Zell/Richard Genée) - Fritz Wunderlich/Rudolf Schock/Berliner Symphonike

10 Jan - Bronislawa, 2.Akt) (1990 Digital Remaster): (Carl Millöcker/Friedrich Zell/Richard Genée) - Fritz Wunderlich/Liselotte Schmidt /Berliner Symph

11 Mathias - Kinderchor, 2.Akt) (1990 Digital Remast (Wilhelm Kienzl (1857-1941)) - Fritz Wunderlich/Kindersingkreis St. Wolfgang, Mün

CD 3

01 Zarewitsch, 1.Akt) (2000 Digital Remaster): Allei (Franz Lehár (1870-1948)/Béla Jenbach/Heinz Reicher) - Fritz Wunderlich/Symphonie-Orchester Graunke/Carl

02 Zarewitsch - Sonja, 2.Akt) (1990 Digital Remaster (Franz Lehár (1870-1948)/Béla Jenbach/Heinz Reicher) - Fritz Wunderlich/Melitta Muszely /Symphonie-Orches

03 Zarewitsch - Sonjy) (2000 Digital Remaster): Mäde (Franz Lehár/Bela Jenbach/Heinz Reichert) - Fritz Wunderlich/Melitta Muszely /Symphonie-Orches

04 Introduktion (Orchester) - Ich trete ins Zimmer - (Franz Lehár/Ludwig Herzer/Fritz Lohner) - Fritz Wunderlich/Melitta Muszely /Symphonie-Orches

05 Bei einem Tee en deux (Sou-Chong - Lisa): Das Lan (Franz Lehár/Ludwig Herzer/Fritz Lohner) - Fritz Wunderlich/Melitta Muszely /Symphonie-Orches

06 Sou-Chong, 1.Akt) (1990 Digital Remaster): Von Ap (Franz Lehár (1870-1948)/Ludwig Herzer/Fritz Löhner) - Fritz Wunderlich/Symphonie-Orchester Graunke/Carl

07 Wer hat die Liebe uns ins Herz gesenkt (Sou-Chong (Franz Lehár/Ludwig Herzer/Fritz Lohner) - Fritz Wunderlich/Melitta Muszely /Symphonie-Orches

08 Dein ist mein ganzes Herz (Sou-Chong): Das Land d (Franz Lehár/Ludwig Herzer/Fritz Lohner) - Fritz Wunderlich/Melitta Muszely /Symphonie-Orches

09 Octavio) (2000 Digital Remaster): Freunde, das Le (Franz Lehár/Paul Knepler/Fritz Lohner) - Fritz Wunderlich/Bayerisches Staatsorchester/Hans

10 Stefan, 2.Akt) (1990 Digital Remaster): Kleinen K (Leo Fall (1873-1925)/Victor Leon) - Fritz Wunderlich/Symphonie-Orchester Graunke/Carl

11 Achmed, 1.Akt) (1990 Digital Remaster): Man sagt (Leo Fall (1873-1925)/Julius Brammer/Alfred Grünwal) - Fritz Wunderlich/Hans Moltkau/Bayerisches Staatsor

12 Achmed, 2.Akt) (1990 Digital Remaster): Ihr still (Leo Fall (1873-1925)/Julius Brammer/Alfred Grünwal) - Fritz Wunderlich/Symphonie-Orchester Graunke/Carl

13 Kondja - Achmed) (2000 Digital Remaster): Sie gla (Leo Fall/Julius Brammer/Alfred Grünwald) - Fritz Wunderlich/Symphonie-Orchester Graunke/Carl

14 Achemd - Kondja, 2.Akt) (1990 Digital Remaster): (Leo Fall (1873-1925)/Julius Brammer/Alfred Grünwal) - Fritz Wunderlich/Melitta Muszely /Symphonie-Orches

15 Achmed, 3.Akt) (1990 Digital Remaster): Zwei Auge (Leo Fall (1873-1925)/Julius Brammer/Alfred Grünwal) - Fritz Wunderlich/Bayerisches Staatsorchester/Hans

16 Achmed, 3.Akt) (1990 Digital Remaster): Wenn sich (Leo Fall (1873-1925)/Julius Brammer/Alfred Grünwal) - Fritz Wunderlich/Symphonie-Orchester Graunke/Carl

17 Wenn es Abend wird - Grüß mir mein Wien (Tassilo) (Emmerich Kálmán/Julius Brammer/Alfred Grünwald) - Fritz Wunderlich/Bayerisches Staatsorchester/Hans

18 Auch ich war einst ein feiner Csardáskavalier - K (Emmerich Kálmán/Julius Brammer/Alfred Grünwald) - Fritz Wunderlich/Bayerisches Staatsorchester/Hans

19 Mister X) (2000 Digital Remaster): Zwei Märchenau (Emmerich Kálmán/Julius Brammer/Alfred Grünwald) - Fritz Wunderlich/Bayerisches Staatsorchester/Hans

20 Johann Georg) (2000 Digital Remaster): Das Lied v (Eduard Künneke/H. Stoll/Roemmer) - Fritz Wunderlich/Bayerisches Staatsorchester/Hans

CD 4

01 Donna Anna - Don Ottavio. 1.Akt) (1990 Digital Re (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart/Lorenzo Da Ponte/Hermann L) - Fritz Wunderlich/Elisabeth Grümmer /Berliner Symph

02 Nur ihrem Frieden weih' ich mein Leben (Arie des D (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart/Lorenzo Da Ponte/H. Levi) - Fritz Wunderlich/Berliner Symphoniker/Hans Zanotel

03 Don Ottavio, 2.Akt) (1990 Digital Remaster): Folg (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart/Lorenzo Da Ponte/Hermann L) - Fritz Wunderlich/Berliner Symphoniker/Horst Stein

04 Der Odem der Liebe (Un aura amorosa) (Ferrando / (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart/Lorenzo Da Ponte/H. Levi) - Fritz Wunderlich/Berliner Symphoniker/Berislav Klo

05 Nemorino, 1.Akt) (1990 Digital Remaster): Welche (Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848)/Felice Romani/Johann) - Fritz Wunderlich/Bayerisches Staatsorchester/Hans

06 Wohl drang aus ihrem Herzen - Heimlich aus ihrem A (Gaetano Donizetti/Felice Romani/Fritz Grünbaum) - Fritz Wunderlich/Bayerisches Staatsorchester/Hans

07 Herzog, 3.Akt) (1990 Digital Remaster): Freundlic (Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)/Francesco Mario Piave/J) - Fritz Wunderlich/Berliner Symphoniker/Berislav Klo

08 Herzog, 3.Akt) (1990 Digital Remaster): O wie so (Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)/Francesco Mario Piave/J) - Fritz Wunderlich/Berliner Symphoniker/Berislav Klo

09 Ach, ohne sie kann ich kein Glück empfinden - Ach, (Giuseppe Verdi/Francesco Mario Piave/Natalie Grünh) - Fritz Wunderlich/Berliner Symphoniker/Berislav Klo

10 Wie eiskalt ist dies Händchen (Arie des Rudolf aus (Giuseppe Giacosa/Luigi Illica/Ludwig Hartmann/Giac) - Fritz Wunderlich/Berliner Symphoniker/Berislav Klo

11 O du süßestes Mädchen (O soave fanciulla) (La Bohè (Giuseppe Giacosa/Ludwig Hartmann/Giacomo Puccini/L) - Fritz Wunderlich/Anneliese Rothenberger/Berliner S

12 Lebt wohl, ihr süßen Stunden (Addio, dolce sveglia (Giacomo Puccini/Giuseppe Giacosa/Luigi Illica) - Fritz Wunderlich/Anneliese Rothenberger/Ruth-Margr

13 In einem Wagen? - Ach Geliebte, nie kehrst du mir (Giuseppe Giacosa/Rudolf Hartmann/Giacomo Puccini/L) - Fritz Wunderlich/Marcel Cordes /Berliner Symphonik

14 Im weiten Weltall - Ob's echte Liebe, möcht' ich m (Giacomo Puccini/Giuseppe Giacosa/Luigi Illica) - Fritz Wunderlich/Hermann Prey/Berliner Symphoniker

15 Ja, es ward Abend - Mädchen, in deinen Augen liegt (Giuseppe Giacosa/Alfred Brüggemann/Giacomo Puccini) - Fritz Wunderlich/Pilar Lorengar/Sieglinde Wagner /

16 Leb wohl, mein Blütenreich (Addio, fiorito asil) ( (Giuseppe Giacosa/Alfred Brüggemann/Giacomo Puccini) - Fritz Wunderlich/Hermann Prey/Berliner Symphoniker

CD 5

01 Komm, o holde Dame (Viens, gentille Dame) (George (François Adrien Boieldieu (1775-1834)/Eugène Scrib) - Fritz Wunderlich/Bayerisches Staatsorchester/Hans

02 Wilhelm Meister, 2.Akt) (1990 Digital Remaster): (Ambroise Thomas (1811-1896)/Michel Carré/Jules Bar) - Fritz Wunderlich/Berliner Symphoniker/Berislav Klo

03 Mignon - Wilhelm Meister, 3.Akt) (1990 Digital Re (Ambroise Thomas (1811-1896)/Michel Carré/Jules Bar) - Fritz Wunderlich/Pilar Lorengar/Berliner Symphonik

04 Ich schloß die Augen (En fermant les yeux) (Des Gr (Philippe Gille/Jules Massenet/Henri Meilhac) - Fritz Wunderlich/Bayerisches Staatsorchester/Hans

05 Mit der Mutter sank zu Grabe (Hans - Marie / (Karel Sabina/Friedrich (Bedrich) Smetana (1824-188) - Fritz Wunderlich/Pilar Lorengar/Bamberger Symphoni

06 Kezal - Hans, 2.Akt) (1990 Digital Remaster): Kom (Friedrich (Bedrich) Smetana (1824-1884)/Karel Sabi) - Fritz Wunderlich/Gottlob Frick/Bamberger Symphonik

07 Armer Narr, glaubtest mich zu fangen - Es muß geli (Bedrich Smetana/Karel Sabina/Max Kalbeck) - Fritz Wunderlich/Bamberger Symphoniker/Rudolf Kemp

08 Hans - Marie, 3.Akt) (1990 Digital Remaster): So (Friedrich (Bedrich) Smetana (1824-1884)/Karel Sabi) - Fritz Wunderlich/Pilar Lorengar/Bamberger Symphoni

09 Wohin seid ihr entschwunden (Arie des Lenski aus (Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky/Alexander Puschkin/Ludwig) - Fritz Wunderlich/Bayerisches Staatsorchester/Meinh

10 Lenski - Onegin, 2.Akt) (1990 Digital Remaster): (Peter Iljitsch Tschaikowsky /Konstantin Schilowski) - Fritz Wunderlich/Hermann Prey/Bayerisches Staatsor

11 Lisa - Hermann, 1.Akt) (1990 Digital Remaster): V (Peter Iljitsch Tschaikowsky /Rolf Lauckner (gest.) - Fritz Wunderlich/Melitta Muszely /Bayerisches Staa

12 Wenn mir der Glockenschlag Gewißheit gibt (Lisa - (Peter Iljitsch Tschaikowsky /Modest Iljitsch Tscha) - Fritz Wunderlich/Melitta Muszely /Orchester der Ba

CD 6

01 Ständchen D.889 (Horch, horch', die Lerch' im Äthe (Franz Schubert/William Shakespeare/A.W. von Schleg) - Fritz Wunderlich/Rolf Reinhardt

02 Ihr Bild D.957 Nr.9 (ich stand in dunklen Träumen) (Franz Schubert/Heinrich Heine) - Fritz Wunderlich/Rolf Reinhardt

03 Fußreise (Am frisch geschnitt'nen Wanderstab) (200 (Hugo Wolf/Eduard Mörike) - Fritz Wunderlich/Rolf Reinhardt

04 Nimmersatte Liebe (So ist die Lieb') (2000 Digital (Hugo Wolf/Eduard Mörike) - Fritz Wunderlich/Rolf Reinhardt

05 Der Musikant (Wandern lieb' ich für mein Leben) (2 (Hugo Wolf/Joseph Von Eichendorff) - Fritz Wunderlich/Rolf Reinhardt

06 Zueignung op.10 Nr.1 (Ja, du weißt es, liebe Seele (Richard Strauss/Hermann Gilm) - Fritz Wunderlich/Rolf Reinhardt

07 Wie sollten wir geheim sie halten op.19 Nr.4 (2000 (Richard Strauss/A. Fr. Graf Von Schack) - Fritz Wunderlich/Rolf Reinhardt

08 Heimliche Aufforderung op.27 Nr.3 (Auf, hebe die f (Richard Strauss/John Henry Mackay) - Fritz Wunderlich/Rolf Reinhardt

09 I. Das Trinklied vom Jammer der Erde (ten): Da (Gustav Mahler) - Otto Klemperer/Fritz Wunderlich/Christa Ludwig/Phi

10 III. Von der Jugend (ten): Das Lied von der Erde (Gustav Mahler) - Otto Klemperer/Fritz Wunderlich/Christa Ludwig/Phi

11 V. Der Trunkene im Frühling (ten): Das Lied von (Gustav Mahler) - Otto Klemperer/Fritz Wunderlich/Christa Ludwig/Phi

12 Ein Maienlob (Text: Gedicht aus d. 17. Jh.): Stud (Fritz Neumeyer) - Fritz Wunderlich/Kammerorchester des Saarländische

13 Tanzlied (Text: Gedicht aus d. 17. Jh.): Studente (Fritz Neumeyer) - Fritz Wunderlich/Kammerorchester des Saarländische

14 Auf den anbrechenden Morgen (Text: Gedicht aus d (Fritz Neumeyer) - Fritz Wunderlich/Kammerorchester des Saarländische

15 Vergebliche Wacht (Text: Gedicht aus d. 17. Jh.) (Fritz Neumeyer) - Fritz Wunderlich/Kammerorchester des Saarländische

16 Abendsegen (Text: B. Neukirch): Studentenlieder · (Fritz Neumeyer) - Fritz Wunderlich/Kammerorchester des Saarländische

17 Auf die Liebe (Text: B. Neukirch): Studentenliede (Fritz Neumeyer) - Fritz Wunderlich/Kammerorchester des Saarländische

18 Wo sind die Stunden (Text: Hoffmann von Hoffmanns (Fritz Neumeyer) - Fritz Wunderlich/Kammerorchester des Saarländische

19 Fast nach dem Holländischen (Text: Martin Opitz): (Fritz Neumeyer) - Fritz Wunderlich/Kammerorchester des Saarländische

20 Der Rattenfänger (Wandern, ach wandern) (2000 Digi (Adolf Neuendorff/Robert Engelhardt) - Fritz Wunderlich/FFB-Orchester/Werner Eisbrenner

21 Zwei dunkle Augen (Lied) (2000 Digital Remaster) (Carl Heins/Paul Grossmann) - Fritz Wunderlich/FFB-Orchester/Werner Eisbrenner

Fritz Wunderlich (tenor)

Friedrich “Fritz” Karl Otto Wunderlich was born into a musical family – his father was a choir director, his mother a violinist – and for a time the family kept an inn. His father had been severely wounded during WW1 and, owing to pressure from local Nazis, he lost his job and he committed suicide when Fritz was five years old. As a young man he worked in a bakery and neighbours and customers alike noticed his beautiful singing and encouraged him to take music seriously. A scholarship granted by the town fathers granted him five years at the Music Academy of Freiburg in Breisgau where he studied voice and classical horn which may help explain his remarkable breath control.

In 1955 in a student production of Die Zauberflöte he played Tamino and was engaged by the Wurttemburg State Opera in Stuttgart where his first role was Ulrich Eislinger in Die Meistersinger. Replacing an ailing Josef Traxel as Tamino Stuttgart had a new star and Wunderlich’s short but brilliant career began. He sang regularly in Vienna and Munich as well as the Salzburg Festival, together with engagements at Covent Garden and Edinburgh in 1965. He had a highly successful USA tour in 1964 and was due to make his Metropolitan debut as Don Ottavio on October 8, 1966.

The previous month he was an enjoying a hunting vacation when tragedy struck, his great friend and accompanist, Hubert Giesen, described the fatal accident as follows:

When the family and the other guests retired to bed, Wunderlich also went to his room on the ground floor, but left it again to get a book from the library on the first floor. He had slipped on his shoes but failed to tie the laces, and on his return he seems to have stepped on a shoelace and tripped. He grabbed at the thick rope that ran down the side of the stairs but it came away from the wall and he fell headlong on to the stone floor below. He must have turned as he fell and hit the back of his head on the flagstones, for he was already in a deep coma when he was found and taken to hospital in Heidelberg but he never recovered consciousness.

In hindsight it is fortunate for us that he spent so much of his career in the recording studio. His range was wide, to the classics of J.S, Bach, Mozart, Bach, Schubert and Mahler he brought lyrical brilliance and to Bel Canto and light opera a melodic tenderness which recalls Tauber. In the 1960s it was the fashion for German opera houses to perform operas in the local rather than original language hence virtually all his recordings are in German.

In April 2008 the BBC Music Magazine a survey voted him the fourth greatest tenor of all time – and that on a mere six years of recording. One can only ask what might have been had he not been killed so young.

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Schubert: Die schöne Müllerin, D795

Schubert: Die schöne Müllerin, D795

Mark Padmore (tenor) & Paul Lewis (piano)

After their much lauded recording of Winterreise, Mark Padmore and Paul Lewis turn to Schubert’s first song-cycle, Die schöne Müllerin, which follows a lovelorn young man on a melancholy journey of false hope. Two great artists at the zenith of their careers.

“Padmore characteristically plundered each poem for every last ounce of emotion from virile ecstasy to blank sorrow. In the final Des Baches Wiegenlied (The Brook’s Lullaby), singer and pianist perfectly expressed the music’s caressing invitation to sink into the watery sleep of oblivion. It was breathtaking. Schubert couldn’t be better served.” Evening Standard, 20/5/2008

Recorded September 11th-14th, 2009 at Air Studios, Lyndhurst Hall, London

“This recording of Schubert's first great song cycle is full of good things...Paul Lewis...plays the hyperactive accompaniment...with force, clarity, precision and a reasonable amount of variation of colour and volume in the long strophic songs.” BBC Music Magazine, October 2010 ***

“It is good to see the excesses of some recent versions avoided - "Der Jäger" is not reduced to a venomous scurry or "Die Liebe Farbe" to a numbing slowness. As in the Winterreise, singer and pianist form a sympathetic union of distinct individuals. Lewis establishes absolute confidence from the start” Gramophone Magazine, September 2010

“their fine performance of the cycle movingly conveys the naive adolescent vulnerability at the centre of the poems...Padmore's true, clear, unaffected tenor voice is admirably suited to this cycle, and Lewis is both an excellent player of Schubert and an excellent accompanist...This is an exceptional performance...doing full justice not only to the music but also to the simplicity of the cycle” International Record Review, September 2010

“...the performance is always alive, the rhythms have a spring in their step, there is a strong sense of narrative shape, and the dramatic curve from optimism through false hope, disillusionment and rage...to death and peaceful oblivion is beautifully realised.” Sunday Times, 25th July 2010 ****

“Singer and pianist are perfectly matched in temperament and musicality, and every note has been lovingly considered...The reflective melancholy of “Die liebe Farbe” is ravishingly painted” The Telegraph, 4th August 2010 ****

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Frans Helmerson - Schubert: Sonata in A minor 'Arpeggione', D821

Frans Helmerson - Schubert: Sonata in A minor 'Arpeggione', D821

Schubert:

Sonata in A minor 'Arpeggione', D821

Frans Helmerson (coach)

“'Very musical but not artistic', Helmerson says: but kindly meant, as he guides a gifted Verbier Festival Academy student through Schubert's Sonata. Many reward for lovers of minutiae.” BBC Music Magazine, March 2013 ****

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