Leipzig String - Mozart: Early String Quartets 1 - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Album Tracks 1. Romancero Gitano, for Mixed Choir & Guitar, Op. 152 Baladilla de los Tres Rios 2. Romancero Gitano, for Mixed Choir & Guitar, Op. 152 La Guitarra 3. Romancero Gitano, for Mixed Choir & Guitar, Op. 152 Memento 4. Romancero Gitano, for Mixed Choir & Guitar, Op. 152 Baile 5. Romancero Gitano, for Mixed Choir & Guitar, Op. 152 Crótalo 6. Sonatina for Guitar Allegretto 7. Sonatina for Guitar Andante 8. Sonatina for Guitar Allegretto 9. Via Crucis, Cycle of 15 Saetas for Chorus & Guitar Pontius Pilate 10. Via Crucis, Cycle of 15 Saetas for Chorus & Guitar Scarlet Robe 11. Via Crucis, Cycle of 15 Saetas for Chorus & Guitar Crown of Thorns 12. Via Crucis, Cycle of 15 Saetas for Chorus & Guitar Via Crucis 13. Via Crucis, Cycle of 15 Saetas for Chorus & Guitar Golgotha 14. Via Crucis, Cycle of 15 Saetas for Chorus & Guitar Crucifixion 15. Via Crucis, Cycle of 15 Saetas for Chorus & Guitar Eli, Eli 16. Via Crucis, Cycle of 15 Saetas for Chorus & Guitar The Ghost 17. Via Crucis, Cycle of 15 Saetas for Chorus & Guitar The Earthquake 18. Via Crucis, Cycle of 15 Saetas for Chorus & Guitar Arisen Saints 19. Via Crucis, Cycle of 15 Saetas for Chorus & Guitar The Son of God 20. Via Crucis, Cycle of 15 Saetas for Chorus & Guitar Mary Magdalene 21. Via Crucis, Cycle of 15 Saetas for Chorus & Guitar The Angel 22. Via Crucis, Cycle of 15 Saetas for Chorus & Guitar A Parable 23. Via Crucis, Cycle of 15 Saetas for Chorus & Guitar In Heaven 24. Sacred Pieces, for Chorus & Guitar Ave Maria 25. Sacred Pieces, for Chorus & Guitar Pater Noster 26. Sacred Pieces, for Chorus & Guitar O Bone Jesu 27. Sacred Pieces, for Chorus & Guitar Hodie Christus Natus Est 28. Yanomami, for Voice, Chorus & Guitar

This brand new album for the very first time brings together the complete songs of Clara Schumann in the original key - a long-overdue present for the two hundredth anniversary of her birth! Why is this collection so compelling and vibrant? Because all the songs are heard in the original keys and in each case fittingly performed by a female or male voice. Miriam Alexandra and Peter Gijsbertsen of course contribute their share here, while Jozef de Beenhouwer's experienced and sovereign piano accompaniment shows them in the very best light. Clara Schumann enjoyed international fame as a pianist and continued to concertize with great success throughout Europe even when she was the mother of a growing brood of children, a housewife, and her husband Robert's assistant. She revealed her compositional talent while she was still a young girl- as the twelve-year-old's InchDer WandererInch and InchDer Wanderer in der SagemuhleInch demonstrate. Later Robert Schumann encouraged his beloved wife to compose new works and even published joint collections of their songs- a very unusual practice during a time when people at most turned up their noses at compositions by women. Clara reached one high point in her vocal oeuvre with the Jucunde songs. The demanding piano part reveals the keyboard virtuoso- but not without offering the singer sufficient room for the luscious design of this music radiating charm, mirth, and joie de vivre. Robert was especially fond of her last song based on Goethe's InchVeilchen,Inch even though it had to vie with Mozart's setting.

Album Tracks 1. Im Traume 2. Ruhelos 3. Silhouette 4. Lied 5. Windungen 6. Reflex (Ion) 7. Lichtkegel 8. Schattenriss 9. Idylle 10. Im/Unter Strom 11. Relief 12. Stimmungen 13. Wechselgesang 14. Nachhall 15. Neun Momente 16. Adagio 17. String Quartet No. 4