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Brahms: | Nachtigallen schwingen, Op. 6 No. 6 Lerchengesang Op. 70 No. 2 Nicht mehr zu dir zu gehen, Op. 32 No. 2 Über die Heide Op. 86 No. 4 Wie rafft' ich mich auf Op. 32,1 (v.Platen) Auf dem Kirchhofe, Op. 105 No. 4 Von ewiger Liebe, Op. 43 No. 1 O kühler Wald, Op. 72 No. 3 Es schauen die Blumen, Op. 96 No. 3 Feldeinsamkeit, Op. 86 No. 2 Nachtwandler, Op. 86 No. 3 Verzagen, Op. 72 No. 4 An eine Äolsharfe, Op. 19 No. 5 Nachtigall, Op. 97 No. 1 Abenddämmerung, Op. 49 No. 5 An die Nachtigall, Op. 46 No. 4 (Text: L.C.H. Hölty) | Schumann: | Dichterliebe, Op. 48 |
Simon Keenlyside (baritone) & Malcolm Martineau (piano) “Here is a singer-actor who has it all…” The Sunday Times “In a league of his own…” The Sunday Telegraph “The king of barnstorming performances…” The Independent Sony Music Entertainment UK is pleased to present the first of three albums by British baritone Simon Keenlyside, who has recently signed a new exclusive recording contract with the Sony UK company. The first recording under this exciting new agreement features Schumann’s Dichterliebe, Op.48, and a selection of Lieder by Brahms, sensitively accompanied by pianist Malcolm Martineau. Simon Keenlyside was born in London and studied zoology at Cambridge before attending the Royal Northern College of Music for vocal studies. One of the world’s most sought-after and charismatic singers, he has appeared at many of the world’s major opera houses and concert halls, and is noted for his versatility and highly charged performances. Highlights of his career so far include his acclaimed performance of Billy Budd at the ENO, Prospero in the world premiere of Thomas Ades' The Tempest, at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden; Count Almaviva in Milan and Vienna under Muti; Don Giovanni in Ferrara under Abbado and Pelleas in San Francisco, Geneva and Paris. Simon Keenlyside won the 2006 Olivier Award for outstanding achievement in Opera for his performance of Billy Budd at ENO and Winston in the world premiere of 1984 at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, and in 2007 he won a Gramophone Award for Tales Of Opera, his album of operatic arias recorded for Sony Music in Germany. “Throughout, the baritone combines a detailed approach with an overview, demonstrating an exceptional ability to seek out the meaning of both text and music, holding them together in one single image. …a great Lieder singer at the peak of his powers. He is well served by his accompanist, who deploys a huge range of tone and colour with an equally firm artistic intent.” BBC Music Magazine, November 2009 ***** | 
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| |  | Schumann, Schubert & Beethoven - Lieder
Fritz Wunderlich (tenor) & Herbert Giesen (piano) Wunderlich was one of the most unusual and captivating tenors of the last fifty years. In his tragically short career, he displayed an extraordinary musical versatility. This recording was made with his longtime friend and accompanist Hubert Giesen and includes Schumann’s Dichterliebe and Schubert 6 Songs. | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Schumann - Dichterliebe & other Heine settings
Schumann: | Tragödie Op. 64 No. 3 Die beiden Grenadiere, Op. 49 No. 1 Abends am Strand, Op. 45 No. 3 Die feindlichen Brüder, Op. 49 No. 2 Der arme Peter, Op. 53 No. 3 Belsazar, Op. 57 Die Lotosblume, Op. 25 No. 7 Was will die einsame Träne, Op. 25 No. 21 Du bist wie eine Blume, Op. 25 No. 24 Lehn deine Wang' Op. 142 No. 2 song originally conceived for Dichterliebe Es leuchtet meine Liebe, Op. 127 No. 3 song originally conceived for Dichterliebe Dein Angesicht, Op. 127 No. 2 song originally conceived for Dichterliebe Mein Wagen rollet langsam, Op. 142 No. 4 song originally conceived for Dichterliebe Dichterliebe, Op. 48 |
Gerald Finley (baritone) & Julius Drake (piano) Why another Dichterliebe recording? Because Gerald Finley has simply one of the greatest voices of his generation, and is an artist at the peak of his powers. He brings to this noble song cycle the supreme technical ability and penetrating musical understanding that characterize all his performances, whether on the concert platform, in the recording studio or on the great opera stages of the world. This is his fourth disc with collaborator Julius Drake, and the partnership has proved to be a uniquely rewarding one. This fine recital also includes many of Schumann’s other Heine settings. The extremes of elation and despair in Heine’s poetry stimulated Schumann to write some of his most poignant and unforgettable songs. This is truly a disc to treasure. “[Finley] brings eloquence to the text and maturity to his interpretations, but with a still youthful-sounding voice. Darker and more “bassy” of tone than Dieskau, he is especially impressive in the sardonic and bitter songs...Finley is a gripping narrator, too, in the tale of Belshazzar’s feast, and can refine his voice to the most arresting of internalised confidences in the love songs to Clare Wieck.” Sunday Times, 14th September 2008 **** “Finley is a much less knowing, more direct performer than Fischer-Dieskau, concentrating less on precise verbal nuance (though his German diction is wonderfully clear) than on more generalised expressive contours, but the effect is still overwhelmingly powerful.” Andrew Clements, The Guardian, 5th September 2008 ***** “Doubts as to whether the world needs yet another Dichterliebe are allayed by a performance that probes the extremes of Schumann's evocation of remembered, blighted love. Gerald Finley's burnished baritone is one of the most beautiful voices to have recorded the cycle.” The Telegraph, 6th September 2008 “Finley's performance gives huge pleasure and insight…” BBC Music Magazine, September 2008 **** “In close collusion with the ever-sentient Julius Drake, Gerald Finley gives one of the most beautifully sung an intensely experience performances on dic of Schumann's cycle of rapture, disillusion and tender regret. This is a Dichterliebe firmly in the past tense, the poet-lover achingly resigned from the outset. Singer and pianist are just as compelling in the other Heine settings here.” Gramophone Magazine, November 2008 | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Beethoven: | Zärtliche Liebe 'Ich liebe dich', WoO 123 Adelaide, Op. 46 Resignation, WoO 149 Der Kuss, Op. 128 | Schubert: | An Sylvia, D891 Lied eines Schiffers an die Dioskuren D360 (Mayrhofer) Liebhaber in allen Gestalten, D558 Der Einsame, D800 Im Abendrot, D799 Ständchen 'Leise flehen meine Lieder', D957 No. 4 An die Laute D905 Der Musensohn, D764 (Goethe) An die Musik D547 | Schumann: | Dichterliebe, Op. 48 |
Fritz Wunderlich, Hubert Giesen | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Schumann: | Dichterliebe, Op. 48 Liederkreis, Op. 24 Liederkreis, Op. 39 Liederreihe Op. 35 Der Himmel hat eine Träne geweint, Op. 37 No. 1 Ich hab' in mich gesogen, Op. 37 No. 5 Rose, Meer und Sonne , Op. 37 No. 9 Mein Wagen rollet langsam, Op. 142 No. 4 Der arme Peter, Op. 53 No. 3 Tragödie Op. 64 No. 3 Lehn deine Wang' Op. 142 No. 2 Du bist wie eine Blume, Op. 25 No. 24 Was will die einsame Träne, Op. 25 No. 21 Die Lotosblume, Op. 25 No. 7 Widmung, Op. 25 No. 1 Freisinn, Op. 25 No. 2 Zwei Venetianische Lieder, Op. 25 Nos. 17 & 18 Der Nussbaum, Op. 25 No. 3 Aus dem Schenkenbuch im Divan I, Op. 25 No. 5 Aus dem Schenkenbuch im Divan II, Op. 25 No. 6 Aus den östlichen Rosen, Op. 25 No. 25 Zum Schluß, Op. 25 No. 26 |
Wolfgang Holzmair (baritone), Imogen Cooper (piano) Wolfgang Holzmair and Imogen Cooper's lieder partnership is the stuff of dreams and their traversal of the Schumann repertoire has won them international plaudits both, for performance as well as the sound engineering on these Philips recordings. Here, brought together for the first time as a collection, is their complete traversal of a vast selection of Robert Schumann's lieder, including all the cycles - the two sets of Liederkreis, the 'Kerner Lieder' and Dichterliebe. Included too are individual songs to poems by Heine and Ruckert, as well as a selection of Myrthen. Two songs Rose, Meer und Sonne, Op. 37 No. 9 and Aus den ostlichen Rosen, Op. 25 No. 25, only appeared previously as part of an Imogen Cooper anthology and are here included to well and truly complete the duo's Schumann survey. “I was transfixed by the sheer artistry... Rarely have I heard so sensitive, intelligent and gloriously musical a partnership... no one could have asked for more attentive, detailed expressions nor more complete harmony of feeling between singer and pianist” The Independent “Singer and pianist work together almost by instinct in thinking themselves into the very heart of these songs... Holzmair's plangent, very Viennese voice bespeaks the vulnerability that lies at the soul of Robert's Eusebius side, heard to mesmeric effect in the great, slower songs of Op 35, but he is just as capable of tramping the ways with Schumann when he is in his Florestan mood.... [Imogen Cooper's] playing throughout the programme is at once supportive of her partner and individual in itself. The recording is faultless” Gramophone Magazine | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Schumann: Dichterliebe, Frauenliebe und -LebenA Treasury of Great Interpretations
Schumann: | Dichterliebe, Op. 48 10 January 1946 Aksel Schiøtz (tenor), Gerald Moore (piano) Dichterliebe, Op. 48 17 June 1935 Charles Panzera (baritone), Alfred Cortot (piano) Dichterliebe, Op. 48 29/30 January 1936 Gerhard Hüsch (baritone), Hanns Udo Müller (piano) Frauenliebe und Leben, Op. 42 20 January 1946 Lotte Lehmann (soprano), Paul Ulanowsky (piano) Frauenliebe und Leben, Op. 42 29/30 March 1950 Marian Anderson (alto), Franz Rupp (piano) Frauenliebe und Leben, Op. 42 7 September 1949 Kathleen Ferrier (alto), Bruno Walter (piano) |
2009 digital restorations “These six recordings from the 1930s and 1940s make a rich two-disc set. All three accounts of the wonderful Heine cycle, Dichterliebe, are fine, in different ways.” Sunday Times, 15th November 2009 **** |
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| |  | Thomas Hampson sings Schumann
Thomas Hampson (baritone) & Wolfram Rieger (piano) If there is one genre of music which baritone Thomas Hampson is exceptionally passionate about, it is lieder. He has invested a great amount of time, work and love in luring this genre out of the shadows and particularly cherishes that of Robert Schumann. Hampson begins this Schumann recital, recorded at Munich's Prinzregententheater with Wolfram Rieger at the piano, with the famous cycle Zwölf Gedichte Op. 35 on poems by Justinus Kerner.The second part of the recital is devoted to the original version of the popular Dichterliebe Op. 48. In original cycle of 1840 there are four songs that were omitted from the later cycle.These works are featured here as first-ever recordings of these rediscovered works. "What makes him so rewarding in opera is the same artistry he brings to lieder - the command of music as a language, the sense of line and color, the range of effects" Opera News NTSC · 16:9, PCM Stereo · DD 5.1 · DTS 5.1 Region code: 0 Booklet: English, French, German Languages: German Subtitles: English, French, German Running time: 84 mins “The Kerner-Lieder make huge demands… Hampson and Wolfram Rieger show themselves to be more than equal to the task, however. Both singer and pianist are at one with the emotional evolution of the cycle. The editing of the longshots, middle-distance and close-ups is sensitively paced within each song, with lighting and camera angles faithfully recreating a live recital experience.” BBC Music Magazine, December 2009 |
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| |  | Mélodies - Airs d’opera
Fernand Faniard (tenor), Heinrich Baumgartner & Pierre Capdevielle South German Radio Symphony Orchestra & Orchestre Radio Symphonique de Strasbourg Faniard made his debut as a heroic tenor in 1926 in Antwerp and in 1930 made his debut at the Paris Opera. He only made two gramophone recordings of Flemish songs on 78s but some of his radio recordings survive. This CD includes Schumann’s Dichterliebe and songs by Fauré, Duparc and Saint-Saëns. | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | Knut Skram - Concert Recordings
Knut Skram (baritone), Inga Nielsen (soprano) & Robert Levin (piano) Oslo Philharmonic, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra & Finnish Radio Orchestra, Antonio Pappano, Simone Young & Okko Kamu Knut Skram is Norway’s foremost baritone. During a distinguished career since his breakthrough at Glyndebourne in 1969 as Guglielmo in Così, he has performed all the major baritone roles, including Germont in “La Traviata”, Ford in “Falstaff”, the title role in “Macbeth”, and Don Carlos in “La forza del destino”. He has appeared at major opera houses throughout the world, alongside the greatest artists of the day. | | | Usually despatched in 4 - 5 working days. |
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| |  | Great Singers - Lotte LehmannLieder Recordings Volume 3 (1941)
Schubert: | Winterreise D911 (excerpts) Gute Nacht (No. 1); Gefrorne Tränen (No. 3); Erstarrung (No. 4); Wasserflut (No. 6); Rast (No. 10); Frühlingstraum (No. 11); Einsamkeit (No. 12); Letzte Hoffnung (No. 16); Der Leiermann (No. 24) Paul Ulanowsky (piano) | Schumann: | Frauenliebe und Leben, Op. 42 Recorded 24th June, 1941 in Los Angeles Bruno Walter (piano) Dichterliebe, Op. 48 Recorded 13th August, 1941 in Los Angeles Bruno Walter (piano) |
Recorded 14th and 19th March, 1941 in Los Angeles “Lehmann remains one of the few female singers to have attempted the 'male' cycles Dichterliebe and Winterreise (nine songs only). Her moving interpretations are essential listening, and in excellent transfers.” BBC Music Magazine, September 2007 ***** “My admiration for Lotte Lehmann as a Lieder singer is not only undiminished – it has grown further. The close recording of the voice leaves almost no barrier between the singer and the listener but in this case lends the songs a rare intimacy.” MusicWeb International | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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