George London: Liederabend: Live Recording 1964

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Release Date: 19th Oct 2009
Catalogue No: C801091B
Label: Orfeo
Series: Orfeo d'Or
Length: 68 minutes

Excerpt, Schubert: Schwanengesang, D957

Work length17:54

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George London, Erik Werba

No. 8, Der Atlas

Track length2:15

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No. 9, Ihr Bild

Track length2:44

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No. 10, Das Fischermadchen

Track length2:07

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No. 11, Die Stadt

Track length2:36

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No. 12, Am Meer

Track length3:54

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No. 13, Der Doppelganger

Track length4:18

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Ibert: Chansons (4) de Don Quichotte

Work length10:42

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Erik Werba, George London

Chanson du depart

Track length3:13

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Chanson a Dulcinee

Track length2:37

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Chanson du duc

Track length1:33

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Chanson de la mort de Don Quichotte

Track length3:19

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Mussorgsky: Songs and Dances of Death

Work length20:51

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George London, Erik Werba

No. 1, Lullaby

Track length5:08

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No. 2, Serenade

Track length4:40

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No. 3, Trepak

Track length4:52

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No. 4, The Field-Marshal

Track length6:11

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Duparc: L'Invitation au voyage

Work length4:11

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George London, Paul Ulanowsky

Duparc: Phidylé

Work length5:28

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George London, Paul Ulanowsky

Phidyle (Version for Voice & Piano)

Track length5:28

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Duparc: Chanson triste, Op. 2 No. 4 (Version for Voice & Piano)

Work length3:06

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George London, Paul Ulanowsky

Duparc: Extase

Work length3:15

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George London, Paul Ulanowsky

Duparc: Le Manoir de Rosemonde

Work length2:37

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George London, Paul Ulanowsky

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George London was the outstanding Amfortas,Wotan and Dutchman of the late 1950s and early '60s, but also belonged among those singers with a mature vocal technique and intelligent characterisation who were able to enthuse audiences in the concert hall without relying merely on their stage charisma (even though that was present in abundance). At the height of his career, which was cut short tragically, London gave a lieder recital at the Theater an der Wien. It was there that he had laid the foundations of his European career (and thus also of his later, triumphant return to his native North America). London began his recital with the Heine songs from Schubert's Schwanengesang, wandered in the footsteps of Feodor Chaliapin by singing Jacques Ibert's Iberian-influenced Don Quichotte and finally Modest Mussorgski's Songs and Dances of Death - tone paintings of archaic grandeur in which he was wholly in his element. In all three cycles, Erik Werba as accompanist completely lived up to his reputation as a modest, but equal partner. In addition to this live recording from Austrian Radio, ORFEO here offers as a bonus the five songs by Henri Duparc with which George London had ten years earlier made his lieder debut before a microphone, in Canada, the country of his birth.

George London: Liederabend

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