Daniel Saether - Vintersong - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

This is Andreas Bauer Kanabas' first solo Lieder CD. He made himself rare on the recorded market, however he is worldwide travelling and singing on the major opera houses. His bass voice is a rarity on the Lieder market and shows many different colours in the well known Schubert songs. The first group of songs on texts by Ludwig Rellstab starts out in a relatively carefree, rapturous tone a mood of spring is in the air. In Frühlingssehnsucht, Inchswelling desireInch is colorfully illustrated by images of nature such as the silvery gurgling brook - an evocation of splendid vitality. But clouds soon darken the horizon the brook becomes a raging torrent of negative emotions. Euphoria gives way to disappointment. The rapturous attitude is curbed we hear of farewell, with a clear touch of bitterness. In the next group of settings of texts by Heinrich Heine, the story returns to it's onset now less rapturous, somewhat more aloof, and with even more bitterness at the end. We have chosen to order these songs in a meaningful succession that begins with the awakening of love and soon reaches it's prompt demise. Is this about love, or only lust? Why does everything feel so unsatisfactory and painful in the end? Are the fisher maidens of this world too clueless to sense that the poet has some truly admirable qualities? Otherwise, why does it always end in defeat? InchMy heart is entirely like the sea there are storms, there is ebb and flow, but in the depths, you can find many beautiful pearls.Inch Does this passage hold the key? With cheerful frankness, he who longs for fulfillment starts out by admitting he has a tendency toward capriciousness and seduction. He feels helplessly pulled to and fro by his emotions as if they were ocean tides. Pressing his suit, he longs to win the fisher maiden's trust - but she would have to dive very far down to find a beautiful pearl. By t

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