Thomas Hampson - Sings Beethoven/Schumann/Grieg - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Since it's foundation in 2017 and it's inaugural performance on the occasion of the opening ceremony of the Carmen Wurth Forum, the Wurth Philharmonic Orchestra has been impressing audiences with a broad repertoire ranging from classical to contemporary compositions in it's role as the orchestra in residence. The orchestra is a further milestone in the Wurth Group's cultural commitment, in addition to it's artistic activities. Claudio Vandelli has been principal conductor of the Wurth Philharmonic Orchestra since 2020. With it's powerful sound and nuanced interpretations, the Wurth Philharmonic Orchestra brings music of exceptional quality to it's home region of Hohenlohe, making it unique in the region as a professional symphony orchestra.

Franz Liszt's art songs form a fascinating repertoire. His lieder served as a vehicle for his own artistic and aesthetic development, but also as inspiration for his contemporaries, who soon followed in his footsteps in composing songs for voice and orchestra. Devoted to the latter aspect of the composer's output, this recording by Martin Haselböck and the Orchester Wiener Akademie presents Liszt's original compositions for voice and orchestra, together with arrangements of his own songs and ones by Franz Schubert, thus embracing different aspects of his work, and bringing out the exceptional lyricism and expressive power that characterize them. The repertoire is performed here by the Inchambassador of songInch, baritone Thomas Hampson, soprano Sunhae I'm, mezzo-soprano Stephanie Houtzeel, and bass-baritone Tomasz Konieczny. This album also enables listeners to discover previously unrecorded orchestral versions of Der Doppelgänger, Die Vätergruft, Weimars Toten, Le Juif errant and Der Titan.

Thomas Hampson, America's leading baritone and a champion of the art of classic song - poetry set to music - makes his Cedille Records debut with a program of songs by five composers of the early 20th century associated with the city of Chicago Ernst Bacon, Florence Price, John Alden Carpenter, Margaret Bonds, and Louis Campbell-Tipton. All of them, Hampson says, Inchhave distinguished themselves in history as great voices of the artistic American narrative.Inch Hailed as Inchan outstanding recitalistInch by Grove Music Online, the much-honored international opera star, recording artist, and Inchambassador of songInch performs compositions based on poems by Walt Whitman, Langston Hughes, and Rabindranath Tagore, the Bengali poet who became the first non-European to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature. Hampson, whose discography includes more than 170 albums, including Grammy and Grand Prix de Disque award winners, is accompanied on Songs from Chicago by collaborative pianist extraordinaire Kuang-Hao Huang, accompanist of choice for Chicago's top singers and instrumentalists. The New York Philharmonic's first Artist-in-Residence, Hampson also has been honored with a Concertgebouw Prize, Library of Congress Living Legends Award, and the Hugo-Wolf-Medal for outstanding achievements in the art of song interpretation, among many other awards.