Schumann / Brahms / Britten - Liederkreis
£13.25
In stock - available for despatch within 1 working day
Despatch Information
This despatch estimate is based on information from both our own stock and the UK supplier's stock.
If ordering multiple items, we will aim to send everything together so the longest despatch estimate will apply to the complete order.
If you would rather receive certain items more quickly, please place them on a separate order.
If any unexpected delays occur, we will keep you informed of progress via email and not allow other items on the order to be held up.
If you would prefer to receive everything together regardless of any delay, please let us know via email.
Pre-orders will be despatched as close as possible to the release date.
Label: Challenge Classics
Cat No: CC72687
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Vocal/Choral
Release Date: 4th December 2015
Contents
Works
Deutsche Volkslieder (14), WoO34How Sweet the Answer
The Ash Grove
The Last Rose of Summer
The trees they grow so high
Liederkreis, op.39
Artists
Anna Lucia Richter (soprano)Michael Gees (piano)
Works
Deutsche Volkslieder (14), WoO34How Sweet the Answer
The Ash Grove
The Last Rose of Summer
The trees they grow so high
Liederkreis, op.39
Artists
Anna Lucia Richter (soprano)Michael Gees (piano)
About
The album 'Liederkreis' unusually features improvisation in a classic genre by a singer, young soprano Anna Lucia Richter, and a pianist, Michael Gees, with Schumann's famous song-cycle interleaved with songs by Brahms and Britten.
One of the best-known of all 19th century song-cycles, Liederkreis op.39 by Robert Schumann, is heard here in a fresh and intriguing context. Its 12 songs setting poems from Joseph Eichendorff's collection 'Intermezzo' are combined not only with folksong arrangements by Benjamin Britten and others by Johannes Brahms but also with improvisations on Eichendorff's poetry. The result is a new 'song circle' - a Liederkreis. Every one of the 27 songs in this cycle is related to the others in atmosphere, topic and musical identity.
Anna Lucia Richter has enjoyed a fast-rising reputation as one of her generation's leading sopranos, topping several major prizes by winning the International Robert Schumann Contest in Zwickau in 2012, and performing as a soloist under conductors such as Markus Stenz, Paavo and Kristjan Järvi, Marin Alsop, Iván Fischer and Christoph Altstaedt. In opera she has sung many roles with the Deutsche Oper am Rhein and elsewhere, and is becoming particularly known as a recitalist - among her accompanists have been Moritz Eggert, Michael Gees, Hartmut Höll, Igor Levit, Nicholas Rimmer and Gerold Huber. At his festival in Vicenza she performs regularly with András Schiff.
Michael Gees has appeared on Challenge Classics both as soloist - including improvised Schumann and Satie - and accompanying the singers Christoph Prégardien, Julian Prégardien and Julia Kleiter.
Track Listing:
1. Britten: The Trees They Grow So High
2. Schumann/Britten/Brahms: Extempore
3. Schumann: In Der Fremde
4. Schumann/Britten/Brahms: Extempore
5. Britten: The Ash Grove
6. Schumann: Intermezzo
7. Schumann: Waldesgesprach
8. Schumann: Die Stille
9. Schumann/Britten/Brahms: Extempore
10. Schumann: Mondnacht
11. Schumann: Schöne Fremde
12. Britten: How Sweet the Answer
13. Schumann: Auf Einer Burg
14. Brahms: In Stiller Nacht
15. Schumann: In der Fremde: Ich hör die Bächlein rauschen
16. Britten: The Last Rose of Summer
17. Schumann: Wehmut
18. Brahms: Da Unten Im Tale
19. Schumann/Britten/Brahms: Zauberblick (Extempore)
20. Schumann: Zwielicht
21. Brahms: Ich weiß mir'n Maidlein
22. Schumann: Im Walde
23. Schumann/Britten/Brahms: Extempore
24. Britten: The Salley Gardens
25. Schumann: Frühlingsnacht
26. Schumann/Britten/Brahms: Extempore
27. Schumann/Britten/Brahms: I Wonder As I Wander
Reviews
Error on this page? Let us know here
Need more information on this product? Click here