Carl Loewe

Nicholas Mogg & Jâms Coleman - The Other Erlking: Songs and Ballads of Carl Loewe (2021)

Nicholas Mogg & Jâms Coleman - The Other Erlking: Songs and Ballads of Carl Loewe (2021)
FLAC tracks | 58:13 | 194 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Champs Hill Records

Nicholas Mogg and Jâms Coleman explore the remarkable versatility of Carl Loewe in a new release for Champs Hill Records. The Other Erlking sheds a deserved light on Loewe’s less well-known songs and astonishingly arresting ballads, and is the first Loewe album recorded by UK performers.
Thomas Quasthoff, Norman Shetler - Carl Loewe: Balladen (2015)

Thomas Quasthoff, Norman Shetler - Carl Loewe: Balladen (2015)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 241 Mb | Total time: 68:16 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Warner Classic | # 0825646075997 | Recorded: 1989

Nearly all of Loewe's most popular ballads are included in this collection, sung by a voice that is admirably suited to them, and interpreted by an intelligence that dramatizes each song grippingly without the need to inflect every emotive word. Quasthoff's baritone has a rich and sonorous extension into the bass range, a broad palette of vocal colour (so he can personify the child, the father and the sinister wraith in Erlkonig or act out the fraught colloquy of Edward without ever ceasing to sing) and it is a voice that can touch lightly or sing quietly without losing tone.
Thomas Quasthoff, Norman Shetler - Carl Loewe: Balladen (2015)

Thomas Quasthoff, Norman Shetler - Carl Loewe: Balladen (2015)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 241 Mb | Total time: 68:16 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Warner Classic | # 0825646075997 | Recorded: 1989

Nearly all of Loewe's most popular ballads are included in this collection, sung by a voice that is admirably suited to them, and interpreted by an intelligence that dramatizes each song grippingly without the need to inflect every emotive word. Quasthoff's baritone has a rich and sonorous extension into the bass range, a broad palette of vocal colour (so he can personify the child, the father and the sinister wraith in Erlkonig or act out the fraught colloquy of Edward without ever ceasing to sing) and it is a voice that can touch lightly or sing quietly without losing tone.
Jenaer Philharmonie & Simon Gaudenz - Carl Loewe: Symphony in D Minor, Symphony in E Minor & Overture to "Themisto" (2022)

Jenaer Philharmonie & Simon Gaudenz - Carl Loewe: Symphony in D Minor, Symphony in E Minor & Overture to "Themisto" (2022)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 265 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 137 Mb | Digital booklet | 00:58:40
Classical | Label: CPO

Of Carl Loewe's oeuvre, his comprehensive Lied edition is best known. In contrast, his two symphonies are rarities that we do not want to withhold from you. Unfortunately, nothing is really known about the exact circumstances of the composition and premiere of the two symphonies. With regard to the E minor symphony, Loewe himself at least left the note that the composition was completed on December 15, 1834. With regard to the D minor symphony, it is assumed that it was composed in 1835. Especially the D minor symphony, which was composed later, comes up with surprises in its formal layout. The instrumentation is very similar to his first symphony in E minor, but the frequent use of four horns is striking, with which Loewe takes a step further towards the typical Romantic instrumentation. When looking at the sequence of movements, the interchange of slow movement and scherzo is striking, and in the harmonic structure Loewe allows himself an extravagant excursion into F-sharp major in the introduction of the fourth movement. The album is completed with Loewe's Themisto Overture, a compressed drama whose atmosphere comes to a head with tremolo surfaces, falling lines and syncopated counter-motives.
Carl Loewe - Das Sühnopfer Des Neuen Bundes (2019) [2CDs] {Oehms Classics}

Carl Loewe - Das Sühnopfer Des Neuen Bundes (2019) [2CDs] {Oehms Classics}
EAC 1.3 | FLAC tracks level 8 | Cue+Log+M3U | Full Scans 300dpi | 435MB + 5% Recovery
MP3 CBR 320 Kbps | 236MB + 5% Recovery
Genre: Classical

The composer (Johann Gottfried) Carl Loewe is familiar to music lovers of the 20th and 21st centuries above all as the writer of important ballad scores, of which Edward, Erlkönig, Herr Oluf and Archibald Douglas are well-known examples. His songs Die Uhr or Heinrich der Vogler were popular hits, especially in a bygone heyday of salon music and educated bourgeois culture. Loewe wrote more than 400 songs. But the same Carl Loewe also wrote six operas, two symphonies and two piano concertos as well as a total of 17 sacred and secular oratorios, all of which have fallen into oblivion.
Thomas Quasthoff, Norman Shetler - Carl Loewe: Balladen (2015)

Thomas Quasthoff, Norman Shetler - Carl Loewe: Balladen (2015)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 241 Mb | Total time: 68:16 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Warner Classic | # 0825646075997 | Recorded: 1989

Nearly all of Loewe's most popular ballads are included in this collection, sung by a voice that is admirably suited to them, and interpreted by an intelligence that dramatizes each song grippingly without the need to inflect every emotive word. Quasthoff's baritone has a rich and sonorous extension into the bass range, a broad palette of vocal colour (so he can personify the child, the father and the sinister wraith in Erlkonig or act out the fraught colloquy of Edward without ever ceasing to sing) and it is a voice that can touch lightly or sing quietly without losing tone.
Linda Nicholson - Carl Loewe: Piano Music, Vol. 2 (2019) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Linda Nicholson - Carl Loewe: Piano Music, Vol. 2 (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/48 kHz | Front Cover & Digital Booklet | Time - 73:47 minutes | 658 MB
Classical | Label: Toccata Classics, Official Digital Download

Known in his lifetime as ‘the north German Schubert’, Carl Loewe (1796–1869) is remembered today chiefly as a composer of ballads. Yet there is a considerable body of piano music that is strikingly innovative in content, expression and harmony, containing the germs of ideas later taken up by composers such as Wagner and Liszt. Loewe was unquestionably a brilliantly original talent, a major figure in ushering in the Romantic era.
Linda Nicholson - Carl Loewe: Complete Piano Music, Vol. 3 (2024) [Official Digital Download 24/48]

Linda Nicholson - Carl Loewe: Complete Piano Music, Vol. 3 (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/48 kHz | Front Cover & Digital Booklet | Time - 70:24 minutes | 623 MB
Classical | Label: Toccata Classics, Official Digital Download

Known in his lifetime as ‘the north German Schubert’, Carl Loewe (1796–1869) is remembered today chiefly as a composer of songs and ballads. Yet there is a considerable body of piano music that is strikingly innovative in content, expression and harmony, containing the germs of ideas later taken up by composers such as Wagner and Liszt. Loewe was unquestionably a brilliantly original talent, a major figure in ushering in the Romantic era – with the remarkable Four Fantasies of 1854 heard here ‘documenting’ in music the contemporary emigration of German families to the United States. This third volume of Linda Nicholson’s survey of his piano music on historical instruments concludes its first-ever complete recording on any kind of piano.
Konstantin Krimmel, Doriana Tchakarova - Saga: Schumann, Loewe, Jensen, Schubert (2019)

Konstantin Krimmel, Doriana Tchakarova - Saga: Schumann, Loewe, Jensen, Schubert (2019)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 220 Mb | Total time: 62:47 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Alpha | # ALPHA549 | Recorded: 2019

The young German baritone Konstantin Krimmel won the prestigious Preis des Deutschen Musikwettbewerbs in 2019, in addition to the Helmut Deutsch Prize. He joins Alpha for a number of recordings, starting with this programme of lieder conceived with his longstanding partner, the pianist Doriana Tchakarova. This lover of words, a particularly expressive performer in concert, wanted to tell a story for his first album: he chose to record a selection of ballads, because they are genuine operas in just a few minutes… mini-sagas that permit great interpretative freedom. Among the great poets present here are Schiller, Goethe and Heinrich Heine.
Mari Kodama, Russian NO, Kent Nagano - Chopin, Loewe: Piano Concertos No.2 (2003) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Mari Kodama, Russian National Orchestra, Kent Nagano - Chopin, Loewe: Piano Concertos No.2 (2003)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time - 60:06 minutes | 1,01 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital booklet

Revered pianist Mari Kodama shows off her pianistic technique on this program of exciting piano concertos from heavyweight composers, Loewe and Chopin. The polished instrumentalist delivers renowned interpretations of Chopin’s Piano Concerto in F Minor and Loewe’s Piano Concert in A. With superb sonic clarity, this album rejuvenates these familiar works.