Martin Bruns - Schiller-Lieder I - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Most of Busoni's 40 or so songs were composed during his childhood and adolescence, up to 1885, when he became disillusioned with the traditional concept of the art song and it's reliance on the beauty of the voice per s'. Album Tracks 1. Wer Hat Das Erste Lied Erdacht 2. Bin Ein Fahrender Gesell 3. Il Fiore Del Pensiero 4. L'ultimo Sonno 5. Un Organetto Suona Per la Via 6. Ballatella 7. Wohlauf! Der Kuhle Winter Ist Vergangen 8. Ich Sah Die Trane 9. An Babylons Wassern 10. Lied Des Monmouth 11. Est Ist Bestimmt in Gottes Rat 12. Es Stand in Alten Zeiten 13. Lied Des Brander 14. Lied Des Mephistopheles Op.49, No.2 15. Lied Des Unmuts 16. Zigeunerlied, Op.55, No.2 17. Schlechter Trost 18. Reminiscenza Rossiniana

Schumann was twenty-eight years old when he composed in 1838 a cycle of eight pieces for piano, the Novelletten (Novelettes) op.21. This impressive, highly virtuosic set was dedicated to the pianist Adolf von Henselt, whose spectacular playing and technique were often compared to those of Liszt. Presented by the composer as 'long, bizarre tales', the Novelletten were written around the same time as the Kinderszenen, two years before his marriage to Clara, to whom he confided 'I have written a frightful amount of music for you in the last three weeks - light-hearted pieces, Egmont stories, family scenes with fathers, a wedding, in short, the most amiable things.' Martin Helmchen has taken up this cycle (with the addition of Robert's Gesänge der Frühe and three excerpts from Clara's Soirées musicales) with all the passion and virtuosity for which he is famed. He was determined to record this program on a Bechstein pianoforte, in order to capture as many of the colours of this flamboyant musical kaleidoscope as possible. Album Tracks 1. Acht Novelletten, Op.21 2. Soirées Musicales, Op.6 3. Gesänge Der Frühe, Op.133

Siegmund von Hausegger belongs to the rare guild of creative artists who work exclusively on the basis of inspiration and have a very fine sense of what is happening in the world around them. As soon as the particular zeitgeist opposes them, they fall silent - as did this son of the highly regarded philosopher of music Friedrich von Hausegger. After an early creative wave that produced some symphonic and vocal works above all during the last decade of the nineteenth century and the first years of the twentieth century, Hausegger mainly worked as a conductor and only very rarely wrote music of his own. The songs brought together on this album represent a significant portion of his multifarious and multifaceted vocal oeuvre and show the whole great breadth of this composer whom his contemporaries described as an »extremely upright character« of the highest artistic seriousness but who occasionally - as his songs to texts by Robert Burns reveal - drew on his humorous vein far removed from any sort of cynicism. This production is an ideal complement to the releases featuring Hausegger's symphonic works released by cpo during the course of recent years. Album Tracks 1. Siehst Du Den Stern 2. Ewig Jung Ist Nur Die Sonne 3. Abendwolke 4. Letzte Bitte 5. Schwüle 6. Winter 7. Mit Trockenen Blumen 8. Vor Der Ernte 9. Mein Schwinchen 10. Tief Von Fern 11. Auf Der Haide 12. Das Lied Von Ferne 13. Mondnacht 14. Das Liebchen 15. Über Die Haide 16. Herbst 17. Genug 18. Weihenacht 19. Stille Der Nacht 20. Unter Sternen 21. Eingelegte Ruder 22. Lenz Wanderer 23. Lenz Mörder 24. Lenz Triumphator 25. Ekstase 26. Glaube Nurl 27. Der Taufel Ist Fort