Uwe Schenker-Primus - Songs 1 - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Hans Pfitzner was able to deploy his extensive musical resources in setting a variety of texts from many different periods and on a wide range of subjects. From Carl Busse's shattering picture of life in Leierkastenmann, Op.15, No.1via one of Pfitzner's greatest songs, a setting of Goethe's Anden Mond, to the rare humorous gem, Rundgesang zum Neujahrsfest 1901with it's choral refrain, the works on this recording represent the mature composer's individual voice. This is the final volume in a series that restores Pfitzner's place amongst the most important Lieder composers of the late Romantic period.

Combining the lulling ambience of shoegaze with the iconic melodies and vocal prowess of classic American country music, enigmatic outlaw cowboy - Orville Peck, croons love and loss from the badlands of North America. The resulting sound is one completely his own, taking the listener down dusty rose-colored desert highways, through a world where worn out gamblers, aloof road-dogs and lovesick hustlers drift in and out of his masked gaze.

In his song settings, Korngold pursued the Romantic ideal and lavished considerable care and inventiveness on their composition. His seemingly effortless gift for melody is everywhere ap-parent in this second volume (Vol.1is on 8.572027), whether in the early works or the songs from the 1940s, which would not sound out of place in an operetta or a Broadway musical. Also present, notably in the Drei Gesänge, Op.18, is an exciting, experimental approach to harmony that reflects the music of his most radical opera, Das Wunderder Heliane (8.660410-12).