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Polenzani is evidently a tenor of the finest quality: a lyric voice, sweet and ingratiating, with the capacity to ring out excitingly, gloriously easy on high but with a perfectly adequate body... — Gramophone Magazine, January 2011 More…

Release Date: 1st Nov 2010
Catalogue No: CDA67782
Label: Hyperion
Series: Liszt Complete Songs
Length: 69 minutes

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Liszt: Kling Leise, mein Lied, S301

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Matthew Polenzani (tenor), Julius Drake (piano)

Liszt: In Liebeslust, S318

Work length2:20

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Matthew Polenzani (tenor), Julius Drake (piano)

Liszt: Wie singt die Lerche schön, S312 (2nd version)

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Matthew Polenzani (tenor), Julius Drake (piano)

Liszt: Die stille Wasserrose, S321

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Matthew Polenzani (tenor), Julius Drake (piano)

Liszt: Der Fischerknabe, S.292 No. 1

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Matthew Polenzani (tenor), Julius Drake (piano)

I. Der Fischerknabe

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II. Der Hirt

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III. Der Alpenjäger

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Liszt: Der Glückliche, S.334

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Matthew Polenzani (tenor), Julius Drake (piano)

Liszt: Angiolin dal biondo crin, S269 (3rd version)

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Matthew Polenzani (tenor), Julius Drake (piano)

Liszt: Sonetti di Petrarca (3) for voice & piano, S270

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Matthew Polenzani (tenor), Julius Drake (piano)

I. Pace non trovo

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II. Benedetto sia 'l giorno

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III. I' vidi in terra angelici costumi

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Liszt: Bist du (2nd version), S277 / 2

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Matthew Polenzani (tenor), Julius Drake (piano)

Liszt: Es rauschen die Winde, S294

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Matthew Polenzani (tenor), Julius Drake (piano)

Liszt: Schwebe, schwebe, blaues Auge, S305 (2nd Version)

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Matthew Polenzani (tenor), Julius Drake (piano)

Liszt: Im Rhein, im schönen Strome, S272

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Matthew Polenzani (tenor), Julius Drake (piano)

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The start of another Hyperion Lieder series is always cause for celebration. In advance of his bicentenary in 2011, we turn to a composer whose songs, against the vast bulk of his compositions in larger genres, were considered insignificant for well over a century.

A collaborator with some of Europe’s best singers, such as the great French tenor Adolphe Nourrit and the husband–wife duo of Feodor and Rosa von Milde (the first Elsa and Telramund in Wagner’s Lohengrin), Liszt used song as a compositional laboratory in which to experiment with ‘Zukunftsmusik’, or ‘music of the future’, including some of his most finely wrought works. A cosmopolitan artist who traveled prodigiously during his years as a virtuoso performer from 1838 to 1847, he chose song texts written both by denizens of Mount Olympus (Goethe, Schiller, Heine, Hugo, Tennyson, Tolstoy, Petrarch) and amateurs, the latter often aristocrats from Liszt’s glittering social circles. From their words he created songs that changed the very definition of the genre, that are a bridge to such later masters as Hugo Wolf, Sergei Rachmaninov and Richard Strauss.

This first volume in the series features the American tenor Matthew Polenzani who has been astounding Met opera audiences in recent years with his expressive and ardent performances. He is accompanied by the curator of the series and Hyperion regular, Julius Drake.

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January 2011

Polenzani is evidently a tenor of the finest quality: a lyric voice, sweet and ingratiating, with the capacity to ring out excitingly, gloriously easy on high but with a perfectly adequate body to the tone in its middle and lower registers...He sings with warmth, intelligence and conviction...And the songs themselves give amazingly consistent satisfaction.

11th November 2010

The challenges are more than met here, with Polenzani doing things in songs such as Der Fischerknabe or Pace Non Trovo that you never thought were possible for a human voice, while Drake's intensity is total and unswerving.

19th December 2010

The start of a major cycle of Liszt's "orphaned" songs – the composer's own description of a neglected but substantial part of his output, full of characteristic rhapsody and poetry.

Liszt: The Complete Songs Volume 1 - Matthew Polenzani

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