Brahms: Es war ein Markgraf überm Rhein (No. 29 from Deutsche Volkslieder, WoO 33)

This page lists our only recording of Es war ein Markgraf überm Rhein (No. 29 from Deutsche Volkslieder, WoO 33), by Johannes Brahms (1833-97) on CD.

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Label:

Hyperion

Catalogue No:

CDA67830

Discs:

Release date:

31st May 2011

Barcode:

0034571178301

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The Ballad Singer

anon.:	O where hae ye been, Lord Randall, my son? traditional, arr. Cyril Scott
Beethoven:	Mephistos Flohlied, Op. 75, 3
Brahms:	Es war ein Markgraf überm Rhein (No. 29 from Deutsche Volkslieder, WoO 33)
Emanuel:	Alone in the desert, alone, I'm alone
Loewe, C:	Edward, Op. 1 No. 1 (Herder) Die wandelnde Glocke, Op. 20 No..3
Mahler:	Wo die schönen Trompeten blasen (Des Knaben Wunderhorn)
Porter, C:	The Tale of the Oyster
Schubert:	Erlkönig, D328
Schumann:	Die Löwenbraut, Op. 31 No. 1 Der Schatzgräber, Op. 45 No. 1
Stanford:	La Belle Dame sans merci (John Keats) (1877)
Sullivan, A:	The Lost Chord
Wolf, H:	Der Feuerreiter (No. 44 from Mörike-Lieder)

Gerald Finley (baritone) & Julius Drake (piano)

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This latest release from the multi-award-winning partnership of Gerald Finley and Julius Drake features a literary and musical form which inspired the greatest voices of German Romanticism. The foremost poets and composers of the age saw the ballad as a direct link to the folk-minstrels of the past. Frequently ghoulish and sensational in character, ballads satisfied the popular taste for the Gothic. This disc contains some of the greatest examples of the form, including Schubert’s Erlkönig, as well as some fascinating and lesser-known works. The disc also includes selections from the ever popular English ballad tradition.

Gerald Finley’s unrivalled gift for characterization and story-telling, honed both on the stages of opera houses around the world and through his extraordinary Lieder recordings, makes him the ideal performer of these works. This is a genuinely entertaining and original disc.

play Beethoven: Aus Goethes Faust, Op. 75/3

play Loewe: Edward, Op. 1/1

play Loewe: Die Wandelnde Glocke, Op. 20/3

play Schubert: Erlkönig, D 328

play Schumann: 3 Gesänge, Op. 31 - #1 Die Löwenbraut

play Schumann: Romanzen & Balladen I, Op. 45 - #1 Der Schatzgräber

play Anon/Brahms: 49 Deutsche Volkslieder, WoO 33 - #29 Es War Ein Markgraf Überm Rhein

play Wolf: Gedichte Von Eduard Mörike - #44 Der Feuerreiter

play Mahler: Wo Die Schönen Trompeten Blasen

play Stanford: La Belle Dame Sans Merci

play Anon/Scott: Lord Randall

play Sullivan: The Lost Chord

play Emanuel: The Desert

play Porter: The Tale Of The Oyster

July 2011	“Drake's playing has successfully suited the varied repertoire. Finley has enthralled with his interpretations and delighted with his singing purely as singing, combining the two aspects expertly.”
July 2011 ****	“they're all tales and Finley is a fine tale-teller. In Loewe, he sounds as though he's singing just for you, the listener, so rapt and intense is his communication. Drake is a fine accomplice, tuning his fingers to full orchestral capacity for Schumann's psycho-drama 'Die Löwenbraut' and Wolf's 'Der Feuerreiter'”
18th June 2011 ****	“Listen to these wonderfully melodramatic, mostly Victorian ballads by candlelight in a haunted house...Performances full of raging fortissimos and ghoulish tremolandos from Finley and his pianist Julius Drake.”
August 2011 ****	“Their approach to text and music consistently casts light on turbulent emotions, at times glaring in its dramatic intensity at others passed through restraining filters. The recital's heart pulses with Wolf's Der Feuerreiter and a spine-tingling account of Stanford's La belle dame sans merci.”