Artist: Anna Lucia Richter, Michael Gees
Title: Liederkreis - Schumann, Brahms, Britten
Year Of Release: 2015
Label: Challenge Classics
Genre: Classical
Quality: flac lossless
Total Time: 01:16:59
Total Size: 243 mb
Tracklist01. The Trees They Grow So High
02. Wunschelrute (Extempore)
03. Liederkreis, Op. 39 In der Fremde
04. Der alte Garten (Extempore)
05. The Ash Grove
06. Liederkreis, Op. 39 Intermezzo
07. Liederkreis, Op. 39 Waldesgesprach
08. Liederkreis, Op. 39 Die Stille
09. In der Nacht (Extempore)
10. Liederkreis, Op. 39 Mondnacht
11. Liederkreis, Op. 39 Schone Fremde
12. How Sweet The Answer
13. Liederkreis, Op. 39 Auf einer Burg
14. Deutsche Volkslieder, No. 8 In stiller Nacht
15. Liederkreis, Op. 39 In der Fremde Ich hor die Bachlein rauschen
16. The Last Rose of Summer
17. Liederkreis, Op. 39 Wehmut
18. Deutsche Volkslieder Da unten im Tale
19. Zauberblick (Extempore)
20. Liederkreis, Op. 39 Zwielicht
21. Deutsche Volkslieder Ich wei? mir'n Maidlein
22. Liederkreis, Op. 39 Im Walde
23. Nachtwanderer (Extempore)
24. The Salley Gardens
25. Liederkreis, Op. 39 Fruhlingsnacht
26. Wunschelrute (Extempore)
27. I Wonder As I Wander
The album 'Liederkreis' unusually features improvisation in a classic genre by a singer, young soprano Anna Lucia Richter, and a pianist, Michael Gees, with Schumann's famous song-cycle interleaved with songs by Brahms and Britten.
One of the best-known of all 19th century song-cycles, Liederkreis op 39 by Robert Schumann, is heard here in a fresh and intriguing context. Its 12 songs setting poems from Joseph Eichendorff's collection 'Intermezzo' are combined not only with folksong arrangements by Benjamin Britten and others by Johannes Brahms but also with improvisations on Eichendorff's poetry. The result is a new "song circle" - a Liederkreis. Every one of the 27 songs in this cycle is related to the others in atmosphere, topic and musical identity.
Anna Lucia Richter has enjoyed a fast-rising reputation as one of her generation's leading sopranos, topping several major prizes by winning the International Robert Schumann Contest in Zwickau in 2012, and performing in as a soloist under conductors such as Markus Stenz, Paavo and Kristjan Järvi, Marin Alsop, Iván Fischer and Christoph Altstaedt. In opera she's sung many roles with the Deutsche Oper am Rhein and elsewhere, and is becoming particularly known as a recitalist - among her accompanists have been Moritz Eggert, Michael Gees, Hartmut Höll, Igor Levit, Nicholas Rimmer and Gerold Huber. At his festival in Vicenza she performs regularly with András Schiff.
Michael Gees has appeared on Challenge Classics both as soloist - including improvised Schumann and Satie - and accompanying the singers Christoph Prégardien, Julian Prégardien and Julia Kleiter.
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