Hugo 2011

Ce disque renferme de la musique de circonstance rythmant la vie de la cour de Versailles de Louis XIV à Louis XVI. Les deux compositeurs mis en valeur sont peu connus mais de leur temps étaient les familiers des souverains et les compositeurs des musiques servant à accompagner les chasses, festins, mariages, fêtes, divertissement qui marquaient les temps forts de la vie de Cour.

This Austrian composer Friedrich Cerha is very significant in the field of contemporary music. In June of this year he is being awarded the Ernst-von-Siemens-Musikpreis (endowed with 200,000 Euro). Here we have the opportunity to hear his clarinet works performed by the virtuoso artist Andreas Schablis.

This latest release from the multi-award-winning partnership of Gerald Finley and Julius Drake features a literary and musical form which inspired the greatest voices of German Romanticism. The foremost poets and composers of the age saw the ballad as a direct link to the folk-minstrels of the past. Frequently ghoulish and sensational in character, ballads satisfied the popular taste for the Gothic.

This 6-CD set captures Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and Daniel Barenboim in some of their most significant recordings together and features the astonishingly beautiful and highly regarded lieder of Hugo Wolf.

Eberhard Kummer - Die Lieder des Hugo von Montfort - Fro welt, ir sint gar húpsch und schón (2007) {2CD Set Orf CD 3011}
EAC rip (secure mode) | FLAC (tracks)+CUE+LOG -> 425 Mb | MP3 @320 -> 211 Mb | Artwork | 5% repair rar
© 2007 Orf Alte Musik | CD 3011
Classical / Medieval / Early Music / Vocal / Hurdy-gurdy / Harp

Hugo von Montfort (1357–1423) was both a politician and a notable linguist of the late Middle Ages. More than 170 documents bear witness to his life: Originating from the well-known Bregenzer noble family, his journeys through Styria took him through large parts of all German-speaking and some neighboring countries. In 1401 he married Anna von Neuhaus; From this time on, his center of life shifted to the area around the Styrian castle Pfannberg.