Various Artists - Fantasia / Various - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

In 1937, a Viennese antiquarian sells a comprehensive lute tablature, which then ends up in Lviv in today's Ukraine. For decades, the tablature is out of reach and subject to wild speculation. Today, it once again reveals European Renaissance masterpieces, presented here on this album. Bernhard Hofstötter's lute playing has been described as Inchadeptly combining technical ease with a masterful sense of phrasingInch (Lute Society of America) and demonstrating Incha refined rhythmic sensibility and understandingInch (International Record Review). His recordings of the music of the 18th century lute virtuoso Silvius Leopold Weiss have been hailed as containing Inchsome of the most sympathetic and beautiful Weiss-playing yet committed to discInch (Gramophone). To date, Hofstötter has published four solo albums which shine an imaginative and colorful light on the lesser known musical landscapes of the 17th and 18th centuries. His recordings have been met with international critical acclaim. Album Tracks 1. Tarzeto 2. A Fancy 3. Pavan 4. Le Content Est Riche 5. Doulce Memoire 6. Tantum Ergo Sacramentum 7. La Rocha El Fuso 8. Fantasia Bellissima 9. O S'io Potessi Donna 10. Pavana Alla Ferrarese 11. Passt E Mezo 12. Saltarello 13. Forlorn Hope Fancy 14. Passamezo 15. Ferdinanth 16. Pasomeza 17. Tripla 18. Or Vien Ça, Vien 19. Non Dite Mai 20. Tarzeto

At the beginning of the 19th century, Chile opened up to the music of foreign composers. In particular, the romantic musical tradition of Europe influenced the national musical identity from then on. This album embarks on a musical search for traces of the connections between the European musical style and Chile's folkloric, nostalgic and patriotic music. It is the time of romanticism in literature, painting and music, which discovers the country and it's people and travel, and more and more dissolves the traditional rules of artistic demarcation. The individual moves into the center and asks questions about his identity and origin. Folk music is recognized as a value in it's own right and finds it's way into high culture. Nature is perceived for the first time as a space that wants to be explored and traveled scientifically and artistically. The discovery of landscape opens up new vistas, purposeful wandering follows the need to exchange ideas. This pursuit is not limited to one continent The artist as globetrotter is an embodiment of the romantic attitude towards life. With Santiago Heitz, Federico Guzmán and Guillermo Deichert, this album presents three of these globetrotters who have shaped Chile's national musical identity. As composers, they succeeded in creating their own musical style from elements of Chilean and European musical traditions. Album Tracks 1. Las Arpas Chilenas - Fantasía Con Variaciones Sobre Dos Zamacuecas 2. Souvenir, Nocturne Op. 44 3. Album Musical de Chile

This commemorates four German composers who had to flee Germany during the Nazi era because they were Jewish Paul Ben-Haim, Paul Dessau, Kurt Weill and Stefan Wolpe. Transylvanian-born Alexander U. Boskovich, who was also forced in 1938 to flee his homeland because he was Jewish, has been included in this programme because of his significance. The songs written by these composers in exile have so far largely remained unknown. The texts they were set to are to a great extent taken from the works of Hebrew poets and are presented here for the first time in German translation by Dagmar Nick. The evocative and sometimes shocking lyrics that seem so prescient even today range from the 7th century BC to the present day, from the prophet Isaiah through Chajim Bialik, Schalom Asch and Erich Kästner to the words of warning from Albert Einstein regarding the H-bomb. Dagmar Nick (Intertext, Explanations & translation) was born in 1926 in Breslau, and grew up in Berlin and is one of the most important German-speaking poets after 1945. She studied graphology and psychology in Munich. In addition to radio plays, short stories, travel guides and three narrative monologues, she has published a collection of thirteen poetry books since 1947. She is a member of the PEN and the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts and has received several literary awards. Dagmar Nick, who lived in Israel for over four years, wrote both the intertexts and the biblical and historical explanations and - with the kind assistance of Eitan Levi, Uri Shani and Assaf Levitin - translated the 25 Hebrew song texts into German. Album Tracks 1. Melodies from the East (Melodien Aus Dem Nahen Osten) Five Songs for Alto and Piano 2. The Lord Is My Shepherd (Der Gute Hirte) 3. Bat Yonim (The Little Dove) (Hinter Dem Tor) 4. A Star Fell Down (Es Fiel Ein Stern) Three Songs for Mezzo-Soprano and Piano 5. The Lo