Loewe: Goethe Lieder & Ballades

On this CD:

1. Gesammelte Lieder, Op. 9, Vol. 8: No. 1, Turmwächter Lynceus zu den Füßen der Helena
Composed by Carl Loewe
Performed by Klaus Mertens, Norman Shetler

2. Gesammelte Lieder, Op. 9, Vol. 8: No. 2, Lynceus, der Helena seine Schätze darbietend
Composed by Carl Loewe
Performed by Klaus Mertens, Norman Shetler

3. Gesammelte Lieder, Op. 9, Vol. 8: No. 3, Lynceus, der Türmer, auf Faust's Sternwarte singend
Composed by Carl Loewe
Performed by Klaus Mertens, Norman Shetler

4. Gesammelte Lieder, Op. 9, Vol. 1: No. 3b, Wandrers Nachtlied
Composed by Carl Loewe
Performed by Klaus Mertens, Norman Shetler

5. Gesammelte Lieder, Op. 9, Vol. 3: No. 1, Ich denke dein
Composed by Carl Loewe
Performed by Klaus Mertens, Norman Shetler

6. Gesammelte Lieder, Op. 9, Vol. 1: No. 5, Sehnsucht
Composed by Carl Loewe
Performed by Klaus Mertens, Norman Shetler

7. Frühzeitiger Frühling, Op. 79/1
Composed by Carl Loewe
Performed by Klaus Mertens, Norman Shetler

8. Lieder (5) for 4 voices, Op. 81: No. 1, Im Vorübergehen
Composed by Carl Loewe
Performed by Klaus Mertens, Norman Shetler

9. Freibeuter for voice & piano
Composed by Carl Loewe
Performed by Klaus Mertens, Norman Shetler

10. Gottes ist der Orient, Op. 22, Vol. 1, No. 5
Composed by Carl Loewe
Performed by Klaus Mertens, Norman Shetler

11. Ballads (3) for voice & piano, Op 1, No. 3, "Erlkönig", Op. 1/3
Composed by Carl Loewe
Performed by Klaus Mertens, Norman Shetler

12. Ballads (3) for voice & piano, Op. 59: No. 1, Der Schatzgräber
Composed by Carl Loewe
Performed by Klaus Mertens, Norman Shetler

13. Ballads (3) for voice & piano, Op. 59: No. 2, Der Sänger
Composed by Carl Loewe
Performed by Klaus Mertens, Norman Shetler

14. Ballads (3) for voice & piano, Op. 44: No. 2, Der getreue Eckart
Composed by Carl Loewe
Performed by Klaus Mertens, Norman Shetler

15. Ballads (3) for voice & piano, Op. 20: No. 3, Die wandelnde Glocke
Composed by Carl Loewe
Performed by Klaus Mertens, Norman Shetler

16. Gesammelte Lieder, Op. 9, Vol. 8: No. 5, Gutmann und Gutweib
Composed by Carl Loewe
Performed by Klaus Mertens, Norman Shetler

17. Ballads (3) for voice & piano, Op. 43: No. 1, Der Fischer
Composed by Carl Loewe
Performed by Klaus Mertens, Norman Shetler

18. Ballads (3) for voice & piano, Op. 20: No. 1, Hochzeitslied
Composed by Carl Loewe
Performed by Klaus Mertens, Norman Shetler

19. Ballads (3) for voice & piano, Op. 20: No. 2, Der Zauberlehrling
Composed by Carl Loewe
Performed by Klaus Mertens, Norman Shetler

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What a wonderful recital!

Follow Goethe

Manufacturer: Cpo Records
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ASIN: B000026CXH
Release Date: 1999-10-26

Tracks:

Freisinn Op.25, 2: Lasst Much Nur Auf Meinem Sattel Gelten!
Herbstgefuhl, Op. 19a , 1: Fetter Grune, Du Laub
Phanomen: Wenn Zu Der Regenwand Phobus Sich Gattet
Neue Liebe, Neues Leben, Op.75, 2: Herz, Mein Herz
Meeres Stille D 216: Teife Stille Herrscht Im Wasser
An Die Turen Will Ich Schleichen Op.98a, 8: An Die Turen Will Ich Schleichen, Still Und Sittsam...
Erster Verlust D 226: Ach, Wer Bringt Die Schonen Tage
Blumengruss: Der Strauss, Den Ich Gepflucket
Wonne Der Wehmut Op.83, 1: Trocknet Nicht, Tranen
Singet Nicht In Trauertonen Op.98a, 7: Singet Nicht In Trauertonen Von Der Einsamkeit Der Nacht
Dammrung Senkte Sich Von Oben Op.19a, 2: Dammrung...
Op. 7 Alles Kundet Dich An: Gegenwart
Wandrers Nachtlied D.768: Uber Allen Gipfeln Ist Ruh
Erlkonig op.1, 3: Wer Reitet So Spat Durch Nacht Und Wind?
Op.7: Gesang Der Geister Uber Den Wassern: Des Menschen Seele Gleicht Dem Wasser
Der Fischer: Das Wasser Rauscht', Das Wasser Schwoll
Anakreons Grab: Wo Die Rose Hier Bluht
Nachklang Op.19b, 1: Es Klingt So Prachtig
Lynceus Der Turmer, Auf Fausts Sternwarte Singend Op.9 H. VIII, 3: Zum Sehen Geboren
Mailied: Op.26,5: Wie Herrlich Leuchtet Mir Die Natur!
Versunken D 715: Voll Locken Kraus Ein Haupt So Rund!
Jagers Abendlied D. 368: Im Felde Schleich' Ich Still Und Wild
Wanderers Nachtlied Op.9, H.1, 3a: Uber Allen Gipfeln Ist Ruh
Hoffnung D. 295: Schaff', Das Tagwerk Meiner Hande
Fruhlings Ubers Jahr: Das Beet, Schon Lockert Sich's In Die Hoh
Der Rattenfanger: Ich Bin Der Wohlbekannte Sanger
Zur Rosenzeit Op.48,5: Ihr Verbluhet, Suss Rosen

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The poetry of Goethe has a unique place in German literature and German song--the sheer variety of his lyrics, from heaven-storming passion to calm acceptance, from tender love to vicious cynicism, made his words the source-material of many composers' finest settings. Christoph Prégardien and Michael Gees have put together an intelligent program that combines some of the best-known composers of the German song--Schubert, Wolf, Schumann, Beethoven--with lesser masters--Loewe, Schoeck; we get both Schubert's and Loewe's setting of the achingly nostalgic "Wanderer's Nightsong," and Loewe's jaunty setting of "Der Erlkonig," perhaps Schubert's best-known song, but by no means his exclusive property. Two songs of Gees's own are intelligent modern pastiches of the romantic style, solidly accomplished word-settings with interesting piano writing. All the songs here are admirably selected for Prégardien's darkly sorrowful pure voice and Gees's tactful, occasionally intense, accompaniment. --Roz Kaveney

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What a wonderful recital!.......2000-02-17

After listening this CD we will finally know why Goethe is an great poet. Too much possibility contained in his poems, as this CD shows us. This unusual recital consists of 27 lieder from 11 composers, spanned from old Beethovan, Wolf to modern Diepenbrock, Shoeck, Gees. Thank God it contains very few over-sung Schubert-Goethe cliche. Pregardien selected and arrange these lieder wisely and carefully, and he deliberately changes style from one song to another. With his gold, clean voice and deep, intense interpretion, they reflected the wild and wide soul a great poet can be. Gees's accompaniment is as well.

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ENOUGH FOR NOW

Carl Loewe: Lieder & Balladen

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ENOUGH FOR NOW.......2005-06-24

Loewe was a contemporary of Schubert, and his output of songs and ballads seems to have been on a similarly large scale. He even set Goethe's Erlkoenig, and at one time there was a fashion to prefer his version to Schubert's masterpiece. This prompted a typically supercilious defence of Schubert from Tovey, always one to praise famous men, but I have heard Loewe's setting and I have no difficulty with Tovey's point of view in general.

Erlkoenig is not included in this recital of 17 numbers by a variety of authors. Most are ballads, a type of poetry for which I have had a lifelong weakness. The themes of love and death figure prominently, and I imagine it would be hard to put together any representative selection of ballads in any language where that was not so. Others are various kinds of lyrics, including translations of Byron and a German setting of three verses from St John's gospel. The choice of religious texts is admirably ecumenical, one poem relating to a miracle associated with the Blessed Virgin, another to a miraculous escape by the Prophet and a companion from their pursuers, and I suppose that the sentiment in the ninth item, (one of the Byron translations), could be fairly described as Zionist. I find the selection to be judicious and as well varied as the material permits, my own partiality being strongly for the touching and affecting ballads. The music is simple and attractive throughout. The liner-note (anonymous but pretty obviously a translation from German) is slightly hectoring in the way it tells us what to think, and while I quite agree that Loewe does not deserve neglect I don't perceive him as any serious rival to Schubert either.

I think you would be very surprised if I had much criticism to make of Fischer-Dieskau, and indeed I have none at all. The beautiful voice, the meticulous artistry and the sense of belief and commitment are here as surely as in his renderings of Schubert or Wolf. Hartmut Hoell is a fairly unremarkable accompanist, but this is not music that cries out for Gerald Moore, and I have no problems in that quarter either. The recording does everyone justice, and I recommend this disc warmly to music lovers interested in this attractive byway of German Lied who may balk slightly at becoming involved with it in a more wholesale way.

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Carl Loewe: Lieder & Balladen, Vol. 14

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ASIN: B00005B17I
Release Date: 2001-04-17

Tracks:

Der Wirtin Tochterlein, Op.1, 2
Die Verfallene Muhle, Op.109
Madchen Sind Wie Der Wind, Op.9, 4
Der Heilige Franziskus, Op.75, 3
Der Schatzgraber, Op.59, 3
Die Wandelnde Glocke, Op.20, 3
Der Getreue Eckart, Op.44, 2
Die Glocken Zu Speyer, Op.67, 2
Der Monch Zu Pisa, Op.114
Der Alte Goethe, Op.9
Friedericus Rex, Op.61
Das Erkennen, Op.65, 2
Abschied Op.3, 1
Melek Am Quell, Op.10, 6
Der Edelfalk, Op.68, 2
Landgraf Philipp Der Grossmutige, Op.125, 1
Das Grab Zu Ephesus, Op.75, 1
Harald, Op.45, 1

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Carl Loewe: Lieder & Balladen

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ASIN: B000001WUB
Release Date: 1997-04-08

Tracks:

Erlkonig
Wanderers Nachtlied I
Wanderers Nachtlied II
Hochtzeitlied
Der Zauberlehrling
Die wandelnde Glocke
Thurmwachter Lynceus zu den Fussen der Helena
Lynceus, der Thurmer, auf Faust's Sternwarte singend
Gutmann und Gutweib
Der Fischer
Der getreue Eckhart
Der Totentanz
Wirkung in die Ferne
Der Sanger
Der Schatzgraber
Freibeuter
Der alte Goethe

Great Voices of the Early Years (Box Set)

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Great Voices of the Early Years (Box Set)

Manufacturer: Deutsche Grammophon
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Classical | Styles | Music

Compilations | Classical | Styles | Music

General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

Romantic (c.1820-1910) | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

German | Languages | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

Italian | Languages | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

Operettas | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

Classical | Box Sets | Stores | Music

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ASIN: B00000DI2N
Release Date: 1998-11-10

Tracks:

Rigoletto: 'Pari siamo!
Rigoletto: 'Cortigiani, vil razza dannata'
Otello: 'Niun mi tema'
Pagliacci: 'Recitar!...Vesti la giubba'
Cavalleria Rusticana: Siziliana 'O Lola ch'hai di latti la cammisa'
Mattinata
Otello: 'Tu?! Indietro! fuggi!'
La Boheme: 'Quando men vo soletta per la vie'
Rigoletto: 'Caro nome'
La Fille Du Regiment: Tirolienne: 'Qu'est-ce que c'est que j'entends?'
Rigoletto: 'La donna e mobile'
TOSCA: 'Recondita armonia'
La forza del destino: 'Oh, tu che in seno agli angeli'
Aida: 'I sacri nomi di padre'
TOSCA: 'E lucevan le stelle'
L'Elisir d'Amore: 'Una furtiva lagrima'
Il Barbiere di Siviglia: 'Una voce poco fa'
Il Barbiere di Siviglia: 'La calunnia e un venticello'
TOSCA: 'Vissi d'arte'
Madame Butterfly: 'Un bel di vedremo'
Turandot: 'Nessun dorma'

Tracks:

Parsifal: 'Ich sah das Kind an seiner Mutter Brust
Lohengrin: In fernem Land
Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg: Morgenlich leutchtend im rosigen Schein
Parsifal: Des Weihgefasses gottlicher Gehalt
Das Rheingold: Weiche, Wotan, weiche!
Rienzi's Prayer: Allmacht'ger Vater, blick herab
Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg: Was duftet doch der Flieder
Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg: Wahn, Wahn, uberall Wahn
Der fliegende Hollander: The Dutchman's monologue
Die Walkure: Ein Schwert verhiess mir der Vater

Tracks:

Undine: Nun ist's vollbracht!
The Merry Wives of Windsor
The Magic Flute
The Magic Flute: Ein Madchen oder Weibchen
The Magic Flute: In diesen heil'gen Hallen
The Magic Flute: O Isis und Osiris
The Abduction From The Seraglio: Konstanze, dich wiederzusehen
Gasparone: O wenn ich doch ein Rauber war
Maria, mari: Schon strahlt die Nacht im Silberschein
Martha: Letzte Rose
Martha: Ach so fromm
Liebe bei Hof: Man nehme zwei Herzen
Chianti Song: Chianti-Lied
Eine Nacht In Venedig: The Gondolier's Song
The Land Of Smiles: Dein ist mein ganzes Herz
Der Rosenkavalier: Hab' mir's gelobt - Ist ein Traum, kann nicht wirklich sein
Der Freischutz: Einst traumte meiner sel'gen Base ... Trube
Die Lustigen Weiber von Windsor: Als Bublein Klein an der Mutterbrust
Ariadne auf Naxos: An Ihre Platze, meine Damen und Herrn!

Tracks:

Feldeinsamkeit Op. 86 no. 2
Epiphanias
Fruhlingsfahrt Op. 45 - No. 2
Auftrage Op. 77 No. 5
Adelaide Op. 46
An die Hoffnung Op. 32
An Schwager Kronos D 369
Erlkonig D 328
Auf Flugeln des Gesanges Op. 34 No. 2
Eifersucht und Stolz from Die schone Mullerin D 795
Die drei Zigeuner, Searle 320
Meeresleuchten Op. 145 No. 1
Verborgenheit
Wiegenlied Op. 49 No. 4
Traum durch die Dammerung Op. 29 No. 1
Allerseelen Op. 10 No. 8
An die Musik D 547
Der Musensohn D 764
Am Grabe Anselmos D 504
Traume from Wesendonck - Lieder
Des Kindes Gebet from Schlichte Weisen Op. 76 No. 22
Herzenstausch from Schlichte Weisen Op. 76 No. 5

Tracks:

Winterreise D 911: Gute Nacht
Winterreise D 911: Die Wetterfahne
Winterreise D 911: Gefrorne Tranen
Winterreise D 911: Erstarrung
Winterreise D 911: Der Lindenbaum
Winterreise D 911: Wasserflut
Winterreise D 911: Auf dem Flusse
Winterreise D 911: Ruckblick
Winterreise D 911: Irrlicht
Winterreise D 911: Rast
Winterreise D 911: Fruhlingstraum
Winterreise D 911: Einsamkeit
Winterreise D 911: Die Post
Winterreise D 911: Der greise Kopf
Winterreise D 911: Die Krahe
Winterreise D 911: Letzte Hoffnung
Winterreise D 911: Im Dorfe
Winterreise D 911: Der sturmische Morgen
Winterreise D 911: Tauschung
Winterreise D 911: Der Wegweiser
Winterreise D 911: Das Wirtshaus
Winterreise D 911: Mut!
Winterreise D 911: Die Nebensonnen
Winterreise D 911: Der Leiermann

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Deutsche Grammophon is lucky in that World War II didn't slow classical recordings in Germany as it did in the United States but stimulated them: It was essential for wartime morale. Thus, if you can get past any repugnance related to these recordings' genesis, there's a huge amount to enjoy. There's a disc of lieder by all the prewar greats (Franz Volker, Tiana Lemnitz, Erna Berger, and Heinrich Schlusnus), a disc of Wagner featuring young Hans Hotter, opera and operetta performances by Berger and Helge Roswaenge, and a disc showing how the German singers gave Italian opera a distinctively Nordic but highly communicative edge. The set is crowned by a complete Winterreise that was recorded by Peter Anders in 1945 (and sounds it): the cultivated tenor's anguished performance embodies a Germany facing the abyss. --David Patrick Stearns

Grosse Sänger unseres Jahrhunderts: Hans Hotter

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BEST LIVE LIEDER CONCERT RECORDING EVER!

Grosse Sänger unseres Jahrhunderts: Hans Hotter

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ASIN: B00004S96L
Release Date: 2000-03-15

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BEST LIVE LIEDER CONCERT RECORDING EVER!.......2004-02-23

This is by far the greatest live lieder concert available on record. This is also superior to any live concert I have ever heard. Hans Hotter allied one of the biggest voices in history and one of the best vocal techniques with the deepest emotional and musical investment and clarity. Given all this, no singer is above Hotter. He was the consummate singer. Vocally this recording is very exciting. The warmth and clarity of the recording and Hotter's vocal health come together creating a beautiful experience. The sound is as close to live as I have ever heard a 60's recording, and it is the best representation of Hotter's timbre. In this recording Hotter was not suffering from the breathing ailment that so spots the majority of his later recordings with wooliness and diffusion. It is not the same infinite ring that the earliest recordings make so clear, but the voice is rarely puffy. It is almost always a warm, rolling sound. This is the best blend of beautiful singing and rounded declamation I have ever heard.
The vocalism is outstanding, but the depth of interpretation and musicality of the music is divine. Hans Hotter performs with complete devotion to text and composer. This approach along with his vocal ability and stability make for nearly perfect presentation of the composer's and poet's intentions. His decisions within the pieces are tempered by his almost singular knowledge of performance history and textual meaning, and Hotter was blessed with considerable direct contact with Strauss and as such must be seen as an authority.
This concert is demanding (on par with the famous live Bjorling Carnegie Hall recording for difficulty), but Hotter's performance is so easily delivered that the listener is rarely aware of the difficulty. This is a key to any great performance. Hotter weaves the music and the word into an organic whole which does not jar the listener from his suspended disbelief. Vocal frailty, lack of musicality, and disconnection from the text are the main factors which break the listener away from the experience. Hans Hotter's performance has no such weaknesses. Hans Hotter excels in every way. He keeps the listener with him at all times. His voice is full of intelligence and pathos. There is no live concert like this on record. BUY THIS CD NOW!