Carl Loewe

Michael Denhoff - Hebdomadaire - Birgitta Wollenweber (1999)
Classical | EAC: FLAC+Cue+Log | 2 Cds, Covers | 339 Mb
Label: col legno - Date: 1999

Michael Denhoff (born 25 April 1955 in Ahaus) is a German composer and cellist. Denhoff has lived and worked in Bonn since 1982. He studied at the Musikhochschule in Cologne, where his teachers included Günter Bialas and Hans Werner Henze (composition), Siegfried Palm and Erling Blöndal Bengtsson (cello) and the Amadeus Quartet (chamber music)…

Heinrich Marschner (1795-1851) - Lieder und Balladen / Love Songs & Ballads
Steven Kimbrough, Baritone / Dalton Baldwin, Piano
EAC+LOG+CUE | FLAC: 244 MB | Full Artwork: 65 MB | 5% Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: Koch-Schwann # 3-6742-2 | Country/Year: Germany 2000
Genre: Classical | Style: Romantic, Vocal, Lieder

Heinrich August Marschner was the most important composer of German opera between Weber and Wagner. To the extent that he is still remembered, it is largely for his operas Hans Heiling (1833), Der Vampyr (1828), and Der Templer und die Jüdin (1829), extremely popular in his lifetime. Marschner’s ability to depict supernatural horror by musical means is especially evident in the first two operas as well as in some of his ballads, such as "Die Monduhr". Next to his operas, Marschner's most significant musical contribution is to the Lied. The best of his works in this form are comparable with those by Carl Loewe.

The German baritone Hermann Prey was born in Berlin in 1929. In a career that spanned some 48 years, he became one of the most popular singers of his time and formed a great bond with his audiences through his unaffected and natural style of singing and his personal charm and acting ability. His repertoire was extremely wide and encompassed all the classic German Lieder, as well as a whole range of operatic roles from the lively Figaro of both Mozart and Rossini to more serious baritone parts in Verdi and Wagner, although it is in the lighter roles that he is most affectionately remembered. He enjoyed great success in the world's major opera houses including Vienna, Bayreuth, Salzburg, Munich, Milan and New York, and also appeared frequently on German TV and in opera films. He died in 1998.

VA - Under an English Heaven
EAC+LOG+CUE | WV: 302 MB | Full Artwork: 21 MB | 5% Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: The Gift of Music # CDG1049 | Country/Year: UK 2003
Genre: Classical, Folk | Style: Traditional, March, Baroque

"From 'Greensleeves' to 'Jupiter', this selection of music in celebration of England's green and pleasant land will evoke fond memories of summer holidays, end-of-term assemblies and listening to the wireless, a time of pride in our country and its heritage."