Licht: 800 Years of German Lieder
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Label: Challenge Classics
Cat No: CC72965
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Vocal/Choral
Release Date: 27th October 2023
Contents
Works
Tria sunt munera (Gregorian chant)Der lieben Sonnen Licht und Pracht, BWV446
O finstre Nacht, wann wirst du doch vergehen, BWV492
Gesange (4), op.2
Lieder (6), op.85
Und endlich stirbt die Sehnsucht doch (And at last desire dies off)
Die Landlust, Hob.XXVIa:10
Lieder (6), op.7
Eingedunkelt: 9 Poems after Paul Celan
Der Zwerg, D771 op.22 no.1
Im Abendrot, D799
Gesange (6), op.107
Berlin im Licht
Morike-Lieder
Artists
Anna Lucia Richter (mezzo-soprano)Ammiel Bushakevitz (hurdy-gurdy, harpsichord, clavichord, fortepiano, piano)
Works
Tria sunt munera (Gregorian chant)Der lieben Sonnen Licht und Pracht, BWV446
O finstre Nacht, wann wirst du doch vergehen, BWV492
Gesange (4), op.2
Lieder (6), op.85
Und endlich stirbt die Sehnsucht doch (And at last desire dies off)
Die Landlust, Hob.XXVIa:10
Lieder (6), op.7
Eingedunkelt: 9 Poems after Paul Celan
Der Zwerg, D771 op.22 no.1
Im Abendrot, D799
Gesange (6), op.107
Berlin im Licht
Morike-Lieder
Artists
Anna Lucia Richter (mezzo-soprano)Ammiel Bushakevitz (hurdy-gurdy, harpsichord, clavichord, fortepiano, piano)
About
With the present programme we want to explore the history of the German Lied throughout a period spanning some 800 years, from that first light of dawn represented by the earliest music scored with modern notation - courtly love songs by Walther von der Vogelweide (1170-1230) and Oswald von Wolkenstein (1377-1445) - down to such present- day emissaries of the Lied tradition as Aribert Reimann and Wolfgang Rihm. In between we find: J.S. Bach, Haydn, Mozart, Schubert, Mendelssohn, F. Hensel, Wolf, Berg and Eisler.
The programme is rounded off, however, by the work of a political exile, Kurt Weill: namely, Berlin im Licht. This work appears initially to be no more than a love-song to the future of the electric light bulb: "Turn on the light; so you can see what's wrong and what is right". The deeper meaning was soon thrown into relief by the blotting out, within a few years of its composition, of both the light and the right to which Kurt Weill aspired and Germany's swift descent into the darkness of dictatorship and war. A spark, however, still remained.
"[her] bright, clean, focused tone, precise diction and keen sense of drama will be familiar from her performances in an impressively wide-ranging portfolio." - Gramophone on A.L. Richter
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