Rote Lieder

Bavarian soprano Christiane Karg made her Wigmore Hall debut in 2012 with a beautiful song recital which also became her first release on Wigmore Hall Live [WHLIVE0062]; four years on we are excited to present her second release. A regular guest at the world’s leading opera houses, singing roles from Musetta (La bohème) to Amor (Orfeo ed Euridice), she is also revered for her enchanting performances on the concert platform alongside conductors such as Nikolaus Harnoncourt and Yannick Nézet-Séguin. Christiane is joined by Malcolm Martineau celebrated as one of his generations greatest accompanists.

Johannes Brahms’ Liebeslieder–Walzer (1869 & 1875), Op. 52 and Op. 65, are a cheerful, short, witty set of songs full of anger, joy and rejection. These part-songs are accompanied by one piano, with four hands and any number of voices can perform any selection.

Johannes Brahms’ Liebeslieder–Walzer (1869, 1875), Op. 52 and Op. 65, are a cheerful, short, witty set of songs full of anger, joy and rejection. These part-songs are accompanied by one piano, with four hands and any number of voices can perform any selection. These enchanting works are performed as part of Barbara Hannigan’s Momentum project, which teams up new talent with more established performers. Here, tenor Nicky Spence, soprano Mary Bevan and pianist Joseph Middleton are joined by three rising stars (mezzo-soprano Fleur Barron, bass William Thomas and pianist Dylan Perez) in these love songs said to have been motivated by Brahms’s unrequited love for Clara Schumann.

Johannes Brahms’ Liebeslieder–Walzer (1869 & 1875), Op. 52 and Op. 65, are a cheerful, short, witty set of songs full of anger, joy and rejection. These part-songs are accompanied by one piano, with four hands and any number of voices can perform any selection.

Robert Schumanns literary background and cultivated taste is revealed in his choice of texts for musical setting. The emphasis in this collection is on songs with a narrative character, such as the tragic tale of Die feindlichen Brüder (Op. 49, No. 2) in which two brothers kill each other in a duel for love of the same girl. Further stories are drawn from those by Hans Christian Andersen. In around 1850 Schumann embarked on a series of melodramas with dramatic spoken dialogue over musical accompaniment. Notable among these lurid tiles of murder and retribution is the Ballade vom Haideknaben.

"Tief von fern" - under this title, this recording combines songs by five composers in three different languages.Marie Seidler and Götz Payer feel the emotional worlds of disappearance, loss and longing in rapturous interaction. Song art in its finest form!

A song evening is sung language. That is why, as an interpreter, it is my task to draw the listeners quickly and easily into this sphere, to prepare them for the transition to this entirely different world. On this CD I have selected songs that have grown to my heart. In the music of Richard Strauss I am at home and it fits well with the fin-de-Siècle feeling of Berg. We then searched specifically for songs whose lyrics left the reality behind, and came across works with the theme of flowers. This contains much ambiguity. And there are absolutely still feelings of today, which are treated in these songs, addressed, analyzed. Since the time of the composition, decades have passed, many things can be said differently today, as a singer I translate into the present.

Die französische Sopranistin Sandrine Piau liebt es, Sprachen und Welten verschiedener Komponisten und Dichter um ein Thema herum zu vermischen; hier treffen Schubert, Liszt, Wolf und Clara Schumann auf Lili Boulanger, Duparc und Debussy.

Seit VÖ des ersten Albums 1983 und einem Karriereweg der seinesgleichen sucht, darf man die Kastelruther Spatzen mit ruhigem Gewissen eine Institution nennen. Mit ihrer Musik erreichten und erreichen sie nicht nur die Herzen der Menschen. Vielmehr sind Norbert Rier und seine Kollegen seit Jahren überzeugende Botschafter ihrer Südtiroler Heimat. Die Spatzen erzählen Geschichten. Seit jeher schon widmen sie sich in ihren Liedern Themen, die vielmehr aus dem Leben gegriffen sind, als es bei klassischen Schlagertexten zumeist üblich ist.