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Liederkreis: Decades - A Century of Song volume 4, 1840-1850
VIVAT 119 (Vivat Music Foundation, CD)
DDD
NEW RELEASE (17 January 2020)
Playing time: 72'02"
Tracks: 27
Booklet pages: 63
© 2019 Vivat Music Foundation
Main country of recording: UK
Country of manufacture: EU
Reviewer: Gerald Fenech
Review of Liederkreis: Decades - A Century of Song volume 4, 1840-1850 published on 21 April 2020
Listen: Franck: Le Sylphe (track 16, 0:19-1:15)
Anush Hovhannisyan, soprano (tracks 10-12)
Ida Evelina Ränzlöv, mezzo-soprano (tracks 20-23)
Nick Pritchard, tenor (tracks 14-17)
Oliver Johnston, tenor (tracks 18, 19)
Florian Boesch, baritone (tracks 1-9)
Alexey Gusev, baritone (track 13)
Samuel Hasselhorn, baritone (tracks 24-27)
Malcolm Martineau, piano
Robert Schumann (1810-1856):
Liederkreis, Op 24
1 Morgens steh' ich auf und frage
2 Es treibt mich hin
3 Ich wandelte unter den Bäumen
4 Lieb' Liebchen
5 Schöne Wiege meiner Leiden
6 Warte, warte, wilder Schiffmann
7 Berg' und Burgen schaun herunter
8 Anfangs wollt' ich fast verzagen
9 Mit Myrten und Rosen
Alexander Sergeyevich Dargomyzhsky (1813-1869):
10 Nochnoy zefir (Night breeze)
11 Mne grustno (I am sad)
12 Sheshtnadtsat' let (Sixteen Years Old)
13 Priznaniye (confession)
César Franck (1822-1890):
14 Souvenance, FWV 70
15 L'Émir de Bengador, FWV 72
16 Le Sylphe, FWV 73
17 Aimer, FWV 76
Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848):
18 Una lacrima (Preghiera)
19 Il sospiro
Adolf Fredrik Lindblad (1801-1878):
20 En Sommerdag
21 Aftonen
Jacob Axel Josephson (1818-1880):
22 Serenad, Op 8
Erik Gustav Geijer (1783-1847):
23 Natthimelen, Op 6 No 2
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847):
24 Altdeutsches Frühlingslied, Op Posth 86, No 6
25 Nachtlied, Op 71 No 6
26 Venetianisches Gondellied, Op 57 No 5
27 Warnung vor dem Rhein, WoO 16
Recorded 22 June 2017 (A Gusev) and 14, 15 October 2018 (F Boesch) at All Saints Church, East Finchley, London UK and 2-5 July 2018 at Alpheton New Maltings, Suffolk UK (A Hovhannisyan, I Ränzlöv, N Pritchard, O Johnston, S Hasselhorn)