Fin de Siecle: Lieder
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Label: C-AVI
Cat No: AVI8553313
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Vocal/Choral
Release Date: 24th November 2014
Contents
Works
Gesange (4), op.2Des Knaben Wunderhorn
Lieder (5), op.4
Maeterlinck Songs (6)
Artists
Anke Vondung (mezzo-soprano)Christoph Berner (piano)
Works
Gesange (4), op.2Des Knaben Wunderhorn
Lieder (5), op.4
Maeterlinck Songs (6)
Artists
Anke Vondung (mezzo-soprano)Christoph Berner (piano)
About
This is the first solo album of the mezzo-soprano Anke Vondung.
Two years ago, inspired by their shared love of Viennese music and visual arts at the turn of the 20th century, Anke and Christoph Berner put together a vocal recital programme featuring lieder by Alban Berg, Arnold Schoenberg, Alexander Zemlinsky and Gustav Mahler. This recording is based on that programme, with the addition of the strikingly expressive early songs of Franz Schreker.
As they investigated the repertoire more closely, they were fascinated to discover the degree of musical and biographical connections the composers shared – the many ways these five composers inspired and had a reciprocal influence on one another.
The music of Gustav Mahler was the focal point around which all subsequent “Viennese” compositions were centred, so they chose to place Mahler’s songs at the end of their selection.
"Over a century ago – in Vienna in 1913 – Schoenberg conducted a concert featuring Mahler’s Songs on the Death of Children and Zemlinsky’s Four Orchestral Songs on poems by Maeterlinck, an evening that went down in history as the Skandalkonzert. Over a century later, we are glad to note that this music is now acknowledged as an integral part of the great European musical legacy."
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