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Im schönen Strome – Heine Lieder

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Catalogue numberBIS-2143 SACD
Release date2015-08-10
Discs1
Orig. sample rate96000Hz
Total time67:35

Although highly productive and respected in his lifetime as a composer of Lieder, Robert Franz (1815–92) has since become a peripheral figure in music history. One reason may be that he avoids dramatic contrasts and instead aims at an emotional ambiguity: ‘My representation of joy is always tinged with melancholy, whilst that of suffering is always accompanied by an exquisite sensation of losing oneself’, he once wrote to Liszt. As a consequence his music appeals to those who are able ‘to admire the nuances of a charcoal drawing without longing for the colours of a painting’, to quote from Georges Starobinski’s liner notes to this recording. As they began to explore the songs of Franz, Starobinski and the baritone Christian Immler were moved by their findings to devise a programme which includes 23 of the composer’s often quite brief songs. Using the poet Heinrich Heine as their guiding star, they present these – all Heine settings but from different opus groups – in the form of two ‘imagined’ song cycles. These are framed by further settings of Heine poems – by Schumann and Liszt, who were both staunch supporters of Robert Franz – providing not only contrast, but also the opportunity to discover how these three very different artistic temperaments treated the same material: some poems appear in more than one setting, notably Morgens steh’ ich auf und frage and Im Rhein. The Rhine, which played such an important role in the Romantic imagination and in Heine’s poetry, also runs through the programme, from Schumann’s celebrated song cycle Liederkreis, Op.24, to Liszt’s dramatic scena Die Loreley, and has given name to this album: Im schönen Strome (‘In the fair river’).
 
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  Composer: Schumann, Robert
  Liederkreis, Op.24 (1840) 19:59
01 1. Morgens steh’ ich auf und frage 00:56 $ 0.22 USD
02 2. Es treibt mich hin, es treibt mich her 01:14 $ 0.30 USD
03 3. Ich wandelte unter den Bäumen 03:15 $ 0.78 USD
04 4. Lieb’ Liebchen 00:47 $ 0.19 USD
05 5. Schöne Wiege meiner Leiden 03:43 $ 0.89 USD
06 6. Warte, warte, wilder Schiffmann 01:56 $ 0.46 USD
07 7. Berg’ und Burgen schau’n herunter 03:33 $ 0.85 USD
08 8. Anfangs wollt’ ich fast verzagen 00:45 $ 0.18 USD
09 9. Mit Myrten und Rosen 03:50 $ 0.92 USD
 
 
  Composer: Franz, Robert
  15 songs (1846–70): ‘Verfehlte Liebe’ 17:54
10 Im wunderschönen Monat Mai, Op.25 No.5 01:26 $ 0.34 USD
11 Mädchen mit dem roten Mündchen, Op.5 No.5 01:01 $ 0.24 USD
12 Die blauen Frühlingsaugen, Op.20 No.1 01:07 $ 0.27 USD
13 Im Rhein, im heiligen Strome, Op.18 No.2 01:42 $ 0.41 USD
14 Ich will meine Seele tauchen, Op.43 No.4 00:46 $ 0.18 USD
15 Wenn ich auf dem Lager liege, Op.37 No.6 01:25 $ 0.34 USD
16 Das ist ein Brausen und Heulen, Op.8 No.4 00:55 $ 0.22 USD
17 Allnächtlich im Traume, Op.9 No.4 01:33 $ 0.37 USD
18 Kommt feins Liebchen heut’? Op.25 No.4 00:59 $ 0.24 USD
19 Wandl’ ich in dem Wald des Abends, Op.39 No.4 01:14 $ 0.30 USD
20 Verfehlte Liebe, Op.20 No.3 01:08 $ 0.27 USD
21 Am leuchtenden Sommermorgen, Op.11 No.2 01:29 $ 0.36 USD
22 Ich hab’ im Traum geweinet, Op.25 No.3 01:12 $ 0.29 USD
23 Lieb’ Liebchen legs Händchen, Op.17 No.3 00:50 $ 0.20 USD
24 Aus meinen großen Schmerzen, Op.5 No.1 01:07 $ 0.27 USD
 
 
  Composer: Franz, Robert
  8 songs (1846–70): ‘Mit schwarzen Segeln’ 12:00
25 Mit schwarzen Segeln, Op.18 No.6 00:57 $ 0.23 USD
26 Meerfahrt, Op.18 No.4 01:24 $ 0.34 USD
27 Auf dem Meere (‘Aus den Himmelsaugen droben’), Op.5 No.3
00:56 $ 0.22 USD
28 Auf dem Meere (‘Es träumte mir’), Op.11 No.5 02:15 $ 0.54 USD
29 Auf dem Meere (‘An die bretternde Schiffswand’), Op.25
No.6
01:15 $ 0.30 USD
30 Auf dem Meere (‘An die blaue Himmelsdecke’), Op.6 No.3 01:42 $ 0.41 USD
31 Auf dem Meere (‘Eingewiegt von Meereswellen’), Op.9 No.6 02:16 $ 0.54 USD
32 Das Meer erstrahlt im Sonnenschein, Op.39 No.3 01:15 $ 0.30 USD
 
 
  Composer: Liszt, Franz
  Five Songs (published in 1856–60) 16:15
33 Im Rhein, im schönen Strome, S.272 03:09 $ 0.76 USD
34 Morgens steh’ ich auf und frage, S.290 02:08 $ 0.51 USD
35 Anfangs wollt’ ich fast verzagen, S.311 01:47 $ 0.43 USD
36 Ein Fichtenbaum steht einsam, S.309 02:52 $ 0.69 USD
37 Die Loreley, S.273 06:19 $ 1.52 USD
 
  Album total 67:35
ComposerFranz, Robert
Liszt, Franz
Schumann, Robert
PianoStarobinski, Georges
BaritoneImmler, Christian

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