Morgen: R Strauss, Rachmaninov, Duparc
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Label: Erato
Cat No: 9029531948
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Vocal/Choral
Release Date: 17th January 2020
Contents
Works
Aux etoiles (version for solo piano)Chanson triste
Extase
L'Invitation au voyage
La Vie anterieure
Phidyle
Serenade florentine
Songs (6), op.38
Lieder (4), op.27
Vier letzte Lieder (Four Last Songs), AV150 (version with piano)
Artists
Elsa Dreisig (soprano)Jonathan Ware (piano)
Works
Aux etoiles (version for solo piano)Chanson triste
Extase
L'Invitation au voyage
La Vie anterieure
Phidyle
Serenade florentine
Songs (6), op.38
Lieder (4), op.27
Vier letzte Lieder (Four Last Songs), AV150 (version with piano)
Artists
Elsa Dreisig (soprano)Jonathan Ware (piano)
About
“Phenomenally good … Dreisig’s voice [is] youthful yet assured, agile yet fluid, and powerful through its entire range … We can certainly expect much more to come from this singer,” wrote BBC Music Magazine in its five-star review of Miroir(s), Elsa Dreisig’s debut album of operatic arias and scenes. It was subsequently nominated for two top awards, Gramophone and Opus Klassik.
Strauss wrote ‘Morgen’ in 1894, when he was just 30 years old, but it is music from the end of his life, 1948, that traces a thematic thread through this album: the Vier letzte Lieder or Four Last Songs. These glorious songs are best known in their sumptuous orchestral version and are generally performed as a single work (though that was not necessarily how Strauss conceived them). Here, Jonathan Ware accompanies Elsa Dreisig on the piano and the four songs are interspersed through a recital programme that includes 17 other numbers (both songs and pieces for solo piano) and which highlights thematic connections and reflections.
For instance, it starts with Duparc’s famous setting of Baudelaire’s ‘L’invitation au voyage’, summoning the listener on a journey. Then comes the exhilarating, airborne ‘Frühling’ (Spring) from the Vier letzte Lieder. Appropriately, this is followed by two flower songs – Rachmaninov’s ‘Daisies’ and Strauss’s ‘Malven’ (Mallows), the last work he ever wrote, which only came to light in 1984 after the death of its dedicatee, the great soprano Maria Jeritza. Then comes another song by Duparc, the sensuous Phidylé, which evokes a woodland setting and the colours and scents of hyacinths, violets and roses.
Jonathan Ware explains that: “For this recital, Elsa and I chose three composers who each wrote in instantly recognizable styles – Strauss, Rachmaninov and Duparc.” (Born in 1864, 1873 and 1848 respectively, they represent different aspects of late Romanticism.) “While each composer had his own distinctive sound world, the three shared a penchant for rich harmonies, soaring melodic invention, and an almost kaleidoscopic approach to making light and colour audible … The Vier letzte Lieder … serve as signposts for our own inward journey through the seasons of life. Along our own journey we are assured that even as winter’s coldest winds blow, spring will come, just as we know that after night’s deepest darkness wakes the new brightness of morning.”
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