Der Ton: Songs by Joseph Marx | Sterling CDA1675

Der Ton: Songs by Joseph Marx

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Label: Sterling

Cat No: CDA1675

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Vocal/Choral

Release Date: 5th March 2012

Contents

Works

Marx, Joseph

Ein junger Dichter denkt an die Geliebte
Italienisches Liederbuch Band II
» Am Fenster
» Bitte
» Der Ton
» Die Begegnung
» Die Verlassene
» Die tote Braut
» Es zurnt das Meer
» Gebet
» Maienbluten
» Marienlied
» Nachtgebet
» Septembermorgen
» Windrader
Italienisches Liederbuch Band I
» Am Brunnen
» Der Lilie
» Die Liebste spricht
» Liebe
» Sendung
Nocturne
Regen
Selige Nacht
Trauergekront
Waldseligkeit

Artists

Matilda Persson (mezzo-soprano)
Bengt-Ake Lundin (piano)

Works

Marx, Joseph

Ein junger Dichter denkt an die Geliebte
Italienisches Liederbuch Band II
» Am Fenster
» Bitte
» Der Ton
» Die Begegnung
» Die Verlassene
» Die tote Braut
» Es zurnt das Meer
» Gebet
» Maienbluten
» Marienlied
» Nachtgebet
» Septembermorgen
» Windrader
Italienisches Liederbuch Band I
» Am Brunnen
» Der Lilie
» Die Liebste spricht
» Liebe
» Sendung
Nocturne
Regen
Selige Nacht
Trauergekront
Waldseligkeit

Artists

Matilda Persson (mezzo-soprano)
Bengt-Ake Lundin (piano)

About

Marx’s gifts were essentially lyrical. With few exceptions, his songs eschew drama and violent emotion. In the settings from the Italienisches Liederbuch, Marx shows himself master of the delicate cameo, albeit without Wolf ’s wit and pungency. Elsewhere expressions of rapture, nature, mysticism and nostalgic yearning predominate, in settings of poets ranging from Romantics such as Novalis and Mörike to contemporary authors including Rilke, Dehmel and Hesse.
 
Marx was hostile to the musical radicalism of the generation of Schoenberg, Webern and Berg, proclaiming to the end his belief in the power of tonality to express the whole gamut of human emotion. Like his older contemporary Richard Strauss, he remained deep down a late-Romantic (he liked to dub himself ‘a Romantic realist’) in a fractured, modernist age.
 
During the years 1908–12 Marx composed around 120 songs, some of which were published in the collections Italienische Lieder I–II (1912) and Lieder und Gesänge I–III (1910–12). Nowadays these songs are regarded as the finest works that he produced.

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