Richter Huber Schorner - Heimweh - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

On her Pentatone debut album, young German star soprano Anna Lucia Richter explores the heart-wrenching, timeless and universal feeling of Heimweh (homesickness) through a collection of extraordinary Schubert songs. Richter approaches the notion of Heimweh from several perspectives from that of queens, young girls and shepherds to that of soldiers, dwarfs and gravediggers. The repertoire consists of the original, German-language version of Ave Maria, three Mignon songs (Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt, Heiss micht nicht reden and So lasst mich scheinen), the sinister Der Zwerg, the expansive flower ballad Viola and many others. Richter is accompanied by pianist Gerold Huber, with whom she has formed a congenial Lieder tandem in the last years. They are joined by clarinetist Matthias Schorn on the final song of the program, the quasi concert aria Der Hirt auf dem Felsen. Details 1. 1. An Den Mond, D. 259 0 03 17 2. 2. Der Zwerg, Op. 22, No. 1, D. 771 0 05 21 3. 3. An Mein Herz, D. 860 0 02 52 4. Gesänge Aus Wilhelm Meister, Op. 62, D. 877 (Excerpts) 5. 4. No. 4. Lied Der Mignon (Nur Wer Die Sehnsucht Kennt) 0 03 20 6. 5. No. 2. Lied Der Mignon (Heiss Mich Nicht Reden) 0 04 12 7. 6. No. 3. Lied Der Mignon (So Lasst Mich Scheinen) 0 03 18 8. 7. Heimweh (Oft in Einsam Stillen Stunden), D. 456 0 02 26 9. 8. Totengräbers Heimweh, D. 842 0 06 52 10. 9. Viola, Op. 123, D. 786 0 12 57 11. 10. Erster Verlust, Op. 5, No. 4, D. 226 0 02 12 12. 11. Ellens Gesang I (Raste, Krieger), Op. 52, No. 1, D. 837 0 08 44 13. 12. Ellens Gesang II (Jäger, Ruhe Von Der Jagd!), Op. 52, No. 2, D. 838 0 03 09 14. 13. Ellens Gesang III (Ave Maria!), Op. 52, No. 6, D. 839, InchHymne An Die JungfrauInch 0 05 56 15. 14. Abschied (Leb Wohl, Du Schöne Erde), D. 829 0 02 35 16. 15. Der Hirt Auf Dem Felsen (The Shepherd on the Rock), Op. 129, D. 965 0 12 26

Anton Beer-Walbrunn (1864-1929) was a teacher of counterpoint, harmony, composition and piano at the Royal Academy of Music in Munich, where he was one of the leading figures in the music scene, but his work is almost forgotten. To change this is the aim of a series at BAYER RECORDS, the third part of which presents the piano cycle Reisebilder Op.21 as well as selected songs. The German soprano, Angelika Huber, sang for several years with the children's choir of the Bavarian State and continued her musical education at the Bayerische Singakademie (a scholarship system of the Bavarian State). After graduating from high school, she studied singing at the Munich Academy for Music and Theater. Born in Venthône (Switzerland), Lauriane Follonier studied piano in Neuchâtel with Marc Pantillon and in Munich, where she graduated in 2011 with the piano master class with Prof. Gitti Pirner. Currently she is studying to receive her Master of Early Music with emphasis on fortepiano with Prof. Christine Schornsheim.

Nicolaus Richter de Vroe, one of the strongest talents among the younger composer from Saxony, joined since the mid-eighties produced primarily with instrumental chamber music. And even in the West, he made a sudden talking point after he had won in 1985 at the Cologne Composition Competition InchYoung Generation in EuropeInch a price. Previously, Judge de Vroe had (with a major in violin) visited the Special School of Music in Dresden, the university and finally five years the famous Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory. There was a lot of opportunity, more modern than in Dresden perceive. Even Cage came up, and began Richter de Vroe to penetrate into the mind of Zen Buddhism. All in all predominate in pieces Judge de Vroes subversive moments against ingrained conventions of composing, playing and listening. They range from the preferred exploring the regions of noise liable - on the individual, detailed game-action (against a collective feeling generated mass al fresco) - up to the incoherent, free child, labyrinthine design of musical progressions. There are, in spite of explosive force, a predominant gestures of violence, combined with a knack for subtle, fragile and aimlessly static, what time - at least in the music of the GDR - a completely new quality possessed, but beyond all probaten forms of aggressive ideological composing differed. Album Tracks 1. Durchlässige Zonen (I) I 12 03 2. Durchlässige Zonen (I) II 3 49 3. Isole Di Rumore (Durchlässige Zonen II) I 8 29 4. Isole Di Rumore (Durchlässige Zonen II) II 7 18 5. Isole Di Rumore (Durchlässige Zonen II) Aus Weißen 16 40 6. Tetra?? III - I 2 40 7. Tetra?? III - II 3 16 8. Tetra?? III - III 3 12 9. Tetra?? III - IV 6 24 10. Tetra?? III - Lum'q'uart'inance 12 32