Sting / Traditional / Brahms / Singer Pur - Singer Pur: Best Of - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

... o night of love, descend upon us... That motif from Wagner's Tristan and Isolde sets the musical and lyrical mood for the selection of pieces and poems in the Feininger Trio's programme, performed for the first time at the Baden-Baden Easter Festival. Love and death the goal in selecting the poems was to find a mood similar to Schubert's Notturno and Chopin's Piano Trio Op. 8 texts that could establish a lyrical dialogue with those pieces. How can we grasp the great subject of love and death? How can we associate language with music, but without relegating language to a subordinate role? How can a series of poems tell their own story while at the same time highlighting the expression conveyed by the music, which is still the precondition for this musical-poetical programme? Following Schubert's Adagio (later renamed Notturno), the theme of love is addressed in Ingeborg Bachmann's poem Erklar mir Liebe (InchExplain love to meInch) and in Rilke's Liebes-Lied (InchLove SongInch), which features metaphors associated with string music. Allegro con fuoco is the tempo marking of the first movement in Chopin's Piano Trio, Op. 8. It is paired alongside Elke Lasker-Schuler's poem Du spieltest ein ungestumes Lied (InchYou played me a wild songInch).

Album Tracks 1. I Love a Piano 2. The Physician 3. You'd Be Surprised 4. My Cousin in Milwaukee 5. Just An Old Fashioned Girl 6. Let Me Sing and I'm Happy 7. The Saga of Jenny 8. Bill 9. So in Love 10. My Heart Belongs to Daddy 11. I Hate Men 12. Losing My Mind 13. A Word on My Ear 14. We Must All Be Very Kind to Auntie Jessie 15. I Never Do Anything Twice

The first CD recording of the duo Benjamin Beck (viola) and Marie Rosa Gunter, released by GENUIN, extends beyond all horizons - namely, from a perspective that links this world with the hereafter and that asks about the possibilities of eternal love. Beck's velvety yet pithy viola tone coaxes out the nuances that make the thoughtful compositions of Robert Schumann, Ralph Vaughan-William, Sergei Prokofiev and Benjamin Britten so appealing. And with music from three centuries, this CD is by no means monotonous since it is about artistic realizations of borderline human experiences. Among these, a composition by Francois-Hugues Leclair, which is available on this CD as a world premiere recording and is dedicated to Benjamin Beck, is of particular importance. Album Tracks 1. 3 Fantasiestücke, Op. 73 (1849) 2. Romance for Viola and Piano (C. 1914) 3. Selected Pieces from the Ballet Romeo and Juliet, Op. 64 (1935/36) 4. Lachrymae for Viola and Piano, Op. 48 (1950) 5. De L'aube Claire Jusqu'à la Fin Du Jour, Op. 39 (2012)