Schwanengesang; Vier Ernste Gesange

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Baritone Thomas Quasthoff here tackles two of the cornerstones of the lieder repertory, and the result is one of the most moving, exciting lieder discs in years. Much of its appeal lies in his attractive vocalism, a rich, firm voice comfortable with both the lyric and dramatic demands of these songs. Throughout, Quasthoff threads the fine line between maintaining the songs' musical thread and interpreting the texts without the distortions of overemphasis. Above all, he communicates directly; the songs seem to go from heart to heart. In Schubert's late Schwanengesang--never intended as a seamless cycle--Quasthoff makes these 14 gems adhere as a whole, something that eludes many others. And he's helped by Justus Zeyen's accompaniment, beautifully balanced by the engineers and full of telling pictorial touches. Fine as the Schubert performances are, they're trumped by the Brahms, in one of the most compelling recorded performances they've ever had. The texts, culled from the Bible, drew from Brahms some of his most moving music, here delivered by Quasthoff with empathy and an inevitability that feels spontaneous. It's obvious that the singer feels them deeply, and because he does, and welds that feeling to the highest vocal and musical values, you do, too. --Dan Davis

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It is rare, these days, to encounter a singer recording Schubert's so-called swansong in the form published after his death by Tobias Haslinger in one of classical music's first successes with the compilation genre. Schreier, Fassbaender and Holzmair give us Schwanengesang plus – grouping the Rellstab settings (originally intended for Beethoven and composed by Schubert as a commemorative tribute after his death) and the great Heine poems separately and adding several Seidl songs to make a... read more

Schwanengesang; Vier Ernste Gesange

Schwanengesang; Vier Ernste Gesange, Music, Thomas Quasthoff, Johannes Brahms, Franz Schubert, Justus Zeyen, Chamber Music & Recitals, Classical, Classical Artists, Classical Music, Romantic Music for Voice and Keyboard, Vocal
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Release Date: 2000-06-13

Tracks:

  1. Winterreise: Gute Nacht - Franz Schubert
  2. Winterreise: Die Wetterfahne - Franz Schubert
  3. Winterreise: Gefrorene Trn - Franz Schubert
  4. Winterreise: Erstarrung - Franz Schubert
  5. Winterreise: Der Lindenbaum - Franz Schubert
  6. Winterreise: Wasserflut - Franz Schubert
  7. Winterreise: Auf dem Flusse - Franz Schubert
  8. Winterreise: Rck - Franz Schubert
  9. Winterreise: Irrlicht - Franz Schubert
  10. Winterreise: Rast - Franz Schubert
  11. Winterreise: Frstraum - Franz Schubert
  12. Winterreise: Einsamkeit - Franz Schubert
  13. Winterreise: Die Post - Franz Schubert
  14. Winterreise: Der greise Kopf - Franz Schubert
  15. Winterreise: Die Kr - Franz Schubert
  16. Winterreise: Letzte Hoffnung - Franz Schubert
  17. Winterreise: Im Dorfe - Franz Schubert
  18. Winterreise: Der sthe Morgen - Franz Schubert
  19. Winterreise: Tchung - Franz Schubert
  20. Winterreise: Der Wegweiser - Franz Schubert
  21. Winterreise: Das Wirtshaus - Franz Schubert
  22. Winterreise: Mut! - Franz Schubert
  23. Winterreise: Die Nebensonnen - Franz Schubert
  24. Winterreise: Der Leiermann - Franz Schubert

Tracks:

  1. Die schone Mullerin: Das Wandern
  2. Die schone Mullerin: Wohin?
  3. Die schone Mullerin: Halt!
  4. Die schone Mullerin: Danksagung an den Bach
  5. Die schone Mullerin: Am Feierabend
  6. Die schone Mullerin: Der Neugierige
  7. Die schone Mullerin: Ungeduld
  8. Die schone Mullerin: Morgengruss
  9. Die schone Mullerin: Des Mullers Blumen
  10. Die schone Mullerin: Tranenregen
  11. Die schone Mullerin: Mein!
  12. Die schone Mullerin: Pause
  13. Die schone Mullerin: Mit dem grunen Lautebande
  14. Die schone Mullerin: Der Jager
  15. Die schone Mullerin: Eifersucht und Stolz
  16. Die schone Mullerin: Die liebe Farbe
  17. Die schone Mullerin: Die bose Farbe
  18. Die schone Mullerin: Trockne Blumen
  19. Die schone Mullerin: Der Muller und der Bach
  20. Die schone Mullerin: Des Baches Wiegenlied
  21. 4 Lieder: Nacht und Traume D 827
  22. 4 Lieder: Standchen
  23. 4 Lieder: Du bist die Ruh
  24. 4 Lieder: Erlkonig

Tracks:

  1. Schwanengesang: Liebesbotschaft
  2. Schwanengesang: Kriegers Ahnung
  3. Schwanengesang: Fruhlingssehnsucht
  4. Schwanengesang: Standchen
  5. Schwanengesang: Aufenthalt
  6. Schwanengesang: In der Ferne
  7. Schwanengesang: Abschied
  8. Schwanengesang: Der Atlas
  9. Schwanengesang: Ihr Bild
  10. Schwanengesang: Das Fischermadchen
  11. Schwanengesang: Die Stadt
  12. Schwanengesang: Am Meer
  13. Schwanengesang: Der Doppelganger
  14. Schwanengesang: Die Taubenpost
  15. 9 Lieder: Vollendung
  16. 9 Lieder: Die Erde
  17. 9 Lieder: An die Musik
  18. 9 Lieder: An Silvia
  19. 9 Lieder: Heideroslein
  20. 9 Lieder: Im Abendrot
  21. 9 Lieder: Der Musensohn
  22. 9 Lieder: Die Forelle
  23. 9 Lieder: Der Tod und das Madchen

Tracks:

  1. An die Leier
  2. Philoktet
  3. Memnon
  4. Fahrt zum Hades
  5. Lied des Orpheus, als er in die Holle ging
  6. Orest auf Tauris
  7. Der entsuhnte Orest
  8. Fragment aus dem Aeschylus
  9. Der zurnenden Diana
  10. Lied eines Schiffers an die Dioskuren
  11. Heliopolis I
  12. Freiwilliges Versinken
  13. Das Weinen
  14. Schiffers Scheidelied
  15. Der Kreuzzug
  16. Vor meiner Wiege
  17. Fruhlingslied
  18. Jagers Liebeslied

Tracks:

  1. Dichterliebe Op. 48 Les Amours du poete Heinrich Heine: Im wunderschonen Monat Mai
  2. Dichterliebe Op. 48 Les Amours du poete Heinrich Heine: Aus meinen Tranen spriessen
  3. Dichterliebe Op. 48 Les Amours du poete Heinrich Heine: Die Rose, die Lilie, die Taube, die Sonne
  4. Dichterliebe Op. 48 Les Amours du poete Heinrich Heine: Wenn ich in deine
  5. Dichterliebe Op. 48 Les Amours du poete Heinrich Heine: Ich will meine Seele tauchen
  6. Dichterliebe Op. 48 Les Amours du poete Heinrich Heine: Im Rhein, im schonen Strome
  7. Dichterliebe Op. 48 Les Amours du poete Heinrich Heine: Ich grolle nicht
  8. Dichterliebe Op. 48 Les Amours du poete Heinrich Heine: Und wussten's die blumen die kleinen
  9. Dichterliebe Op. 48 Les Amours du poete Heinrich Heine: Das ist ein Floten und Geigen
  10. Dichterliebe Op. 48 Les Amours du poete Heinrich Heine: Hor ich das Liedchen kiligen
  11. Dichterliebe Op. 48 Les Amours du poete Heinrich Heine: Ein Jungling liebt ein Madchen
  12. Dichterliebe Op. 48 Les Amours du poete Heinrich Heine: Am leuchteden Sommermorgen
  13. Dichterliebe Op. 48 Les Amours du poete Heinrich Heine: Ich hab im Traum geweinet
  14. Dichterliebe Op. 48 Les Amours du poete Heinrich Heine: Allnachtilch im Traume
  15. Dichterliebe Op. 48 Les Amours du poete Heinrich Heine: Aus alten Marchen winkt es
  16. Dichterliebe Op. 48 Les Amours du poete Heinrich Heine: Die alten bosen Lieder
  17. 12 Gedichte Op. 35 Justinus Kerner: Lust der Sturmnacht
  18. 12 Gedichte Op. 35 Justinus Kerner: Stirb, Lieb und Freud
  19. 12 Gedichte Op. 35 Justinus Kerner: Wanderlied
  20. 12 Gedichte Op. 35 Justinus Kerner: Erstes Grun
  21. 12 Gedichte Op. 35 Justinus Kerner: Sehsucht nach der Waldgagend
  22. 12 Gedichte Op. 35 Justinus Kerner: Auf das Trinkglas einet verstorbenen Fredes
  23. 12 Gedichte Op. 35 Justinus Kerner: Wandrung
  24. 12 Gedichte Op. 35 Justinus Kerner: Stille Liebe
  25. 12 Gedichte Op. 35 Justinus Kerner: Frage
  26. 12 Gedichte Op. 35 Justinus Kerner: Stille Tranen
  27. 12 Gedichte Op. 35 Justinus Kerner: Wer machete dich so krank?
  28. 12 Gedichte Op. 35 Justinus Kerner: Alte Laute
  29. 7 Lieder: Freisinn
  30. 7 Lieder: Schneeglockchen
  31. 7 Lieder: Standchen
  32. 7 Lieder: Laute di menien
  33. 7 Lieder: Des sennen Abschied
  34. 7 Lieder: Des sennen Abschied
  35. 7 Lieder: Talismane

Tracks:

  1. Liederkreis Op 24: Morgens steh ich auf und frage
  2. Liederkreis Op 24: Es treibt mich hin
  3. Liederkreis Op 24: Ich wandelte unter den baumen
  4. Liederkreis Op 24: Lieb liebchen
  5. Liederkreis Op 24: Schone Wiege meiner leiden
  6. Liederkreis Op 24: Warte, warte, wilder Schiffmann
  7. Liederkreis Op 24: Berg' undBurgen schaun herunter
  8. Liederkreis Op 24: Anfangs wolt ich fast verzagen
  9. Liederkreis Op 24: Mit Myrten und rosen
  10. 11 Lieder: Der Kontrabandiste
  11. 11 Lieder: Zigeunerliedchen I
  12. 11 Lieder: Zigeunerliedchen II
  13. 11 Lieder: Tief im Herzen
  14. 11 Lieder: Melancholie
  15. 11 Lieder: Sehnsucht
  16. 11 Lieder: Gestandnis
  17. 11 Lieder: O wie lieblich
  18. 11 Lieder: Weh, wie zornig
  19. 11 Lieder: Der Hidalgo
  20. 11 Lieder: Romanze
  21. Myrten op. 25: Widmung
  22. Myrten op. 25: Der Nussbaum
  23. Myrten op. 25: Lied aus dem Schenkenbuch I
  24. Myrten op. 25: Lied aus dem Schenkenbuch II
  25. Myrten op. 25: Die Lotosblume
  26. Myrten op. 25: Du bist wie eine Blume
  27. Myrten op. 25: Auden hebraischen Geangen
  28. Myrten op. 25: Du bist wie eine Blume
  29. Myrten op. 25: Zum Schluss
  30. 5 Lieder: Die feindlichen Bruder
  31. 5 Lieder: Abends am Strand
  32. 5 Lieder: Die beiden Grenadiere
  33. 5 Lieder: Mein schoner Stern
  34. 5 Lieder: Wein Wagen

Tracks:

  1. An die ferne Geliebte, op.98: Auf dem Huegel sitz ich, spaehend - Ludwig Van Beethoven
  2. Wo die Berge so blau - Ludwig Van Beethoven
  3. Beethoven: Leichte Segler in den Hoehen - Ludwig Van Beethoven
  4. Diese Wolken in den Hoehen - Ludwig Van Beethoven
  5. Es kehret der Maien, es bluehet die Au - Ludwig Van Beethoven
  6. Nimm sie hin denn, diese Lieder - Ludwig Van Beethoven
  7. Lieder: Adelaide, op.46 - Ludwig Van Beethoven
  8. Ich liebe dich, so wie du mich, WoO 123 - Ludwig Van Beethoven
  9. L'amante impaziente, op.82-3 - Ludwig Van Beethoven
  10. L'amante impaziente, op.82-4 - Ludwig Van Beethoven
  11. Ariette (Der Kuss), op.128 - Ludwig Van Beethoven
  12. In questa tomba oscura, WoO 133 - Ludwig Van Beethoven
  13. Die Ehre Gottes aus der Natur, op.48-4 - Ludwig Van Beethoven
  14. Maigesang, op.52-4 - Ludwig Van Beethoven
  15. Marmotte, op.52-7 - Ludwig Van Beethoven
  16. Seufzer eines Ungeliebten-Gegeliebe, WoO 118 - Ludwig Van Beethoven
  17. Andenken, WoO 136 - Ludwig Van Beethoven
  18. Der Wachtelschlag, WoO 129 - Ludwig Van Beethoven
  19. Aus Goethes Faust (Mephistos Flohlied), op.75-3 - Ludwig Van Beethoven
  20. 3 Gesaenge, op.83: I. Wonne der Wehmut - Ludwig Van Beethoven
  21. II. Sehnsucht - Ludwig Van Beethoven
  22. III. Mit einem gemalten Band - Ludwig Van Beethoven
  23. An die Hoffnung, op.94 - Ludwig Van Beethoven
  24. Lied aus der Ferne, WoO 137 - Ludwig Van Beethoven
  25. Der Juengling in der Fremde, WoO 138 - Ludwig Van Beethoven
  26. Der Liebende, WoO 139 - Ludwig Van Beethoven
  27. Abendlied unterm gestirnten Himmel, WoO 150 - Ludwig Van Beethoven

Tracks:

  1. Es muss ein Wunderbares sein
  2. Benedetto sia 'l giorno
  3. Pace non trovo
  4. I' vidi in terra angelici costumi
  5. Oh, quad je dors S282
  6. die drei zigeuner
  7. Die vatergruft
  8. Der alpen jager
  9. Blume und Duft
  10. Vergiftet sind meine Lieder
  11. Tristesse
  12. Ihr Glocken von Marling
  13. Hohe Liebe
  14. O lieb, so lang du lieben kannst
  15. Im Rhein, im schonen Strome
  16. Ein Fichtenbaum steht einsam
  17. Morgens steh ich auf und frage
  18. der traurige Monch

Tracks:

  1. Denn es gehet dem Menschen wie dem Vieh
  2. Ich wandte mich und sahe an alle
  3. O Tod, wie bitter bist du
  4. Wenn ich mit Menschen - und mit Engelszungen redete
  5. Sommerabend
  6. Mondenschein
  7. Es liebt sich so lieblich im Lenze
  8. Meerfahrt
  9. Es schauen die blumen
  10. Der Tod, das ist die kuhle Nacht
  11. Mit vierzig Jahren
  12. Steig auf , geliebter Schatten
  13. Mein Herz ist schwer
  14. Kein Haus, keine Heimat
  15. Herbstgefuhl
  16. Alte Liebe
  17. Abenddammerung
  18. Heimweh II
  19. Auf dem Kirchhofe
  20. Verzagen
  21. Regenlied
  22. Nachklang
  23. Fruhlingslied
  24. Auf dem See
  25. Feldeinsamkeit

Tracks:

  1. Hugo Wolf: In der FrHugo Wolf
  2. Hugo Wolf: Fussreise - Hugo Wolf
  3. Hugo Wolf: Neue Liebe - Hugo Wolf
  4. Hugo Wolf: Der Feuerreiter - Hugo Wolf
  5. Hugo Wolf: Jrlied - Hugo Wolf
  6. Hugo Wolf: Storchenbotschaft - Hugo Wolf
  7. Hugo Wolf: Verborgenheit - Hugo Wolf
  8. Hugo Wolf: Verborgenheit - Hugo Wolf
  9. Hugo Wolf: Im Fr - Hugo Wolf
  10. Hugo Wolf: Auf einer Wanderung - Hugo Wolf
  11. Hugo Wolf: An die Geliebte - Hugo Wolf
  12. Hugo Wolf: Peregrina I - Hugo Wolf
  13. Hugo Wolf: Peregrina II - Hugo Wolf
  14. Hugo Wolf: Lebewohl - Hugo Wolf
  15. Hugo Wolf: Begegnung - Hugo Wolf
  16. Hugo Wolf: Der Jr - Hugo Wolf
  17. Hugo Wolf: Bei einer Trauung - Hugo Wolf
  18. Hugo Wolf: Abschied - Hugo Wolf

Tracks:

  1. Es war einmal ein Bock
  2. Einst kam der Bock als Bote
  3. Es liebte einst ein Has
  4. Drei Masken sah ich am Himmel stehn
  5. Hast du ein Tongedicht vollbracht
  6. O lieber Kunstler, sei ermanhnt
  7. Unser Feind ist, gober Gott
  8. Von Handlern wird die Kunst bedroht
  9. Es war mal eine Wanze
  10. Die Kunstler sind die Schopfer
  11. Die Handler und die Marcher
  12. O Schropferschwarm, o Handlerkreis
  13. Gefunden
  14. Das Roseband
  15. Einerlei
  16. Winterweihe
  17. Stiller Gang
  18. Der Arbeitsmann
  19. Blindenklage
  20. Heimkehr
  21. Wer wird von der Welt Verlangen
  22. Hab ich euch denn je geraten
  23. Wanderers Gemutsruhe

Tracks:

  1. Aeolsharfe
  2. Winterahnung
  3. Traum durch die Dammerung
  4. Nelken
  5. Flieder
  6. Minnelied
  7. Der Himmel Hat eine Trane Geweint
  8. Waldeinsamkeit
  9. Schlecht Wetter
  10. Gluckes genug
  11. Einsamkeit
  12. Gottes Segen
  13. Das sterbende Kind
  14. Ein Drangen
  15. Trost
  16. Heimat
  17. Ihr, ihr Herrlichen!
  18. Der zerrissne Grabkranz
  19. Das Blatt im Buche
  20. Im April
  21. Brablied
  22. Sie haben heut Abend Gesellschaft
  23. In Danzig
  24. Eingelegte Ruder
  25. Saerspruch
  26. Hussens Kerker
  27. Zorn
  28. An die Mark
  29. Zum Abschied meiner Tochter
  30. Tragische Geschichte
  31. Sonett Nach Petrarca

Tracks:

  1. Ein Tagewerk I
  2. Ein Tagewerk II
  3. Fruhgesicht
  4. Reisefantasie
  5. Das Ende des Festes
  6. Nachruf
  7. Jugendgedenken
  8. Peregrina II
  9. Auf ein Kind
  10. Dammrung senkte sich
  11. Ach, wie schon
  12. Nachklang
  13. Hore den Rat
  14. Venezianisches Epigramm
  15. Jetzt rede du
  16. Auskunft
  17. Aus zwei Talern
  18. Kennst du das auch?
  19. Ravenna I
  20. Das Ziel
  21. Keine Rast
  22. Kindheit
  23. Im Kreuzgang von Santo Stefano
  24. Nachtgefuhl
  25. Magie der Farben
  26. Verwelkende Rosen
  27. Abends
  28. Mittag im September
  29. Blauer Schmetterling
  30. Pfeifen
  31. Sommernacht
  32. Fur Ninon
  33. Verganglichkeit

Tracks:

  1. Ballade de Villon a s'amye
  2. Ballade que Villon feit a la requeste de sa mere pour prier nostre Dame
  3. Ballade des femmes de Paris
  4. Nahandove
  5. Aoua!
  6. II est doux
  7. Chanson de la mariee
  8. La-bas, vers l'eglise
  9. Quel galant m'est comparable
  10. Chanson des cueilleuses de lentisques
  11. Tout gai!
  12. Chanson romanesque
  13. Chanson epique
  14. Chanson a borie
  15. At The River
  16. Elegie
  17. Anne Street
  18. A Chirstmas Caro
  19. From 'The Swimmers'
  20. West London (A Sonnet)
  21. A Farewell To Land
  22. Abide With Me
  23. Where the eagle
  24. Disclosure
  25. The White Gulls
  26. The Children's Hour
  27. Two Little Flowers (And Dedicated To Them)
  28. Autumn
  29. Tom Sails Away
  30. Ich Grolle nicht
  31. Feldeinsamkeit
  32. Weil' auf mir
  33. In Flanders Fields

Tracks:

  1. Phantasie aus Don Juan
  2. Ablosung im Sommer
  3. Selbstgefuhl
  4. Des Antonius von Padua Fischpredigt
  5. Zu Strabburg auf der Schanz
  6. Booh, Wie Ist Die Barmhezigkeit des herrn
  7. Willst du Gottes Diener sein
  8. Alles, was aus der Erde kommt
  9. Tod, wie bitter bist du
  10. Lied des Mephistopheles
  11. Zigeunerlied
  12. Schlechter Trost
  13. Lied des Mephistopheles
  14. Liederseelen
  15. Alle
  16. Der Gesang des Meeres
  17. In einer Sturmanacht (Nikodemus)
  18. Nun die Schatten dunkeln
  19. Wonne der Wehmut
  20. Aus den Himmelsaugen
  21. Musikantegrub
  22. Der juge Ehemann
  23. Der Soldat
  24. Uomo del mio tempo
  25. Con una fronda di mirto

Tracks:

  1. 1. Wenn mein Schatz Hochzeit macht
  2. 2. Ging heut morgen uebers Feld
  3. 3. Ich hab ein gluehend Messer
  4. 4. Die zwei blauen Augen
  5. 1. Um Mitternacht
  6. 2. Ich atmet' einen Linden Duft
  7. 3. Blicke mir nicht in die Lieder
  8. 4. Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen
  9. 1. Nun will die Sonn' so hell aufgehn
  10. 2. Nun seh ich wohl, warum so dunkle Flammen
  11. 3. Wenn dein Mutterlein
  12. 4. Oft denk ich, sie sind nur ausgegangen
  13. 5. In diesem Wetter, in diesem Braus

Tracks:

  1. Ich will den kreuzstab gerne tragen: Arie
  2. Ich will den kreuzstab gerne tragen: Rezitativ
  3. Ich will den kreuzstab gerne tragen: Choral
  4. Ich will den kreuzstab gerne tragen: Arie
  5. Ich will den kreuzstab gerne tragen: Rezitativ
  6. Ich habe Genug: Arie
  7. Ich habe Genug: Rezitativ
  8. Ich habe Genug: Arie
  9. Ich habe Genug: Rezitativ
  10. Ich habe Genug: Arie
  11. Ich bin eine blum zu saron: Arie
  12. Ich bin eine blum zu saron: Arie
  13. Ich bin eine blum zu saron: Arie
  14. Ich suchte des nachts: Duett
  15. Ich suchte des nachts: Duett
  16. Ich suchte des nachts: Duett
  17. Ich suchte des nachts: Arie
  18. Ich suchte des nachts: Arie
  19. Ich suchte des nachts: Duett
  20. Ich suchte des nachts: Arie
  21. Ich suchte des nachts: Duett

Tracks:

  1. Hir ist sas rechte Osterlamm
  2. Gerne will ich mich bequemen
  3. gebt mir meine jesum wiender
  4. Mache dich, mein herz, rein
  5. Et in Spiritum Sanctum
  6. Achzen und erbarmlich weinen
  7. Duett - Wann kommst du, mein heil
  8. O Memory! Still Bitter To My Soul-Opprest WIth Never - Casting Greif
  9. Aus der Tiefe rufe ich
  10. Aus tiefer Not schrei ich zu dir
  11. Meine Hande ringen sich
  12. Jedennoch bleib ich stets an dir
  13. Aus der Tiefe rufe ich
  14. Duett - Holde Gattin, dir zur Seite
  15. Solo & Chor - Herr, lehre doch mich

Tracks:

  1. Frondi tenere e belle - Ombra mai fu
  2. Cara pianta
  3. Presti omai l'Egizia terra
  4. Non e si vago e bello
  5. Che faro senza Euridice
  6. Udite, tutti udite
  7. Io deggio ad ogni patto
  8. Finch'han dal vino
  9. Deh, vieni alla finestra
  10. Hai gia vinta la causa
  11. Vedro, mentr'io sospiro
  12. Der Vogelfanger bin ich ja
  13. Ein Madchen oder Weibchen
  14. Ha! Welch ein Augenblick!
  15. Wie Todesahnung Damm'rung - O du, mein holder Abenstern
  16. Was duftet doch der Flieder
  17. Wahn! Wahn!
  18. Zur Burg fuhrt die Brucke - Abendlich strahlt der Sonne Auge

Tracks:

  1. Botre toast... je peux vous le renre
  2. avant de quitter ces lieux
  3. L'orage s'est calme
  4. Resta immobile
  5. Morir! ... Tremenda cosa!
  6. Di Provenz il mar
  7. Nemico della patria?!
  8. Si puo? Signore!
  9. Povero Rigoletto!
  10. Cortigiani, vil razza dannata
  11. Brav, alter Hans
  12. Lebt wohl ihr suben studen

Tracks:

  1. Schlafst oder wachst du?
  2. Heimkehr
  3. Maggy Lauder
  4. Dort, wo durchs ried
  5. Fileb leise, mein bachlein
  6. Horch auf, mein liebchen
  7. Da brava, Cantina
  8. O kostliche Zeit
  9. Trinklied
  10. Der treue Johnie
  11. Kommt, schliebt mir einen forhen Kreis
  12. Once more I Hail Thee
  13. Sunset
  14. Put Round The Bright Wine
  15. Could Ill World
  16. Could Ill Be fate
  17. Oh, Had My Fate
  18. The Return Of Ulster
  19. Ein entmutigter liebender
  20. Ein begluckter Liebender
  21. Bewuderug
  22. Gluhende Liebe
  23. Trinklied
  24. Weine, weine, weine nur nicht

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars The Mastersinger.......2000-06-24

If the second half of the 20th Century has musical signs, they must include that phenomenal German singer Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau who dominated the recital and concert halls, the opera stages and the recording studios in a way no other artist has done it, except maybe Leonard Bernstein. In celebration of this great artist's 75th birthday we have here a set which includes the gems of his lieder repertoire, starting with those great Schubert cycles in their most vivid performances. Just listen to those early renditions of the Schone Mullerin or with Jorg Demus, or to Schuman's Dichterliebe cycle (with the same pianist). And you shall not miss the artistry of this most sensitive voice in full volume of Mahler lieder with piano and orchestral songs. And what about the Morike lieder by Hugo Wolf? Well, you shall probably wonder at that special cooperation between the singer and the Russian pianist Svitoslav Richter. It is a performance of lifetime, and so it is with the Wintereise of Schubert with Barnboim at the piano. Those who know the artistry of Fischer-Dieskau and even those who have already other recordings of those great works will not regret having this special set. For the newcomers to this great artist there will be a lot to discover, The music itself, sure, but mainly the art of interpratation. In this alone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau shine high and above all other singers.
Schwanengesang; Vier Ernste Gesange
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • Ah, here is greatness
  • A frustrating disappointment
  • Plain Singing
  • Another fine CD from Quasthoff
  • Quasthoff/Zeyen, Schubert/Brahms
Schwanengesang; Vier Ernste Gesange
Franz Schubert , and Johannes Brahms
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ASIN: B00005AAFB
Release Date: 2001-08-14

Tracks:

  1. Schwanengesang, D 957: 1. Liebesbotschaft
  2. Schwanengesang, D 957: 2. Kriegers Ahnung
  3. Schwanengesang, D 957: 3. Fruhlingssehnsucht
  4. Schwanengesang, D 957: 4. Standchen
  5. Schwanengesang, D 957: 5. Aufenthalt
  6. Schwanengesang, D 957: 6. In Der Ferne
  7. Schwanengesang, D 957: 7. Abschied
  8. Schwanengesang, D 957: 8. Der Atlas
  9. Schwanengesang, D 957: 9. Ihr Bild
  10. Schwanengesang, D 957: 10. Das Fischermadchen
  11. Schwanengesang, D 957: 11. Die Stadt
  12. Schwanengesang, D 957: 12. Am Meer
  13. Schwanengesang, D 957: 13. Der Doppelganger
  14. Schwanengesang, D 957: 14. Die Taubenpost
  15. Vier Ernste Gesange, Op.121: 1. Denn Es Gehet Dem Menschen WIe Dem Vieh
  16. Vier Ernste Gesange, Op.121: 2. Ich Wandte Mich Und Sahe An Alle
  17. Vier Ernste Gesange, Op.121: 3. O Tod, Wie Bitter Bist Du
  18. Vier Ernste Gesange, Op.121: 4. Wenn Ich Mit Menschen - Und Mit Engelszungen Redete

Amazon.com's Best of 2001

Baritone Thomas Quasthoff here tackles two of the cornerstones of the lieder repertory, and the result is one of the most moving, exciting lieder discs in years. Much of its appeal lies in his attractive vocalism, a rich, firm voice comfortable with both the lyric and dramatic demands of these songs. Throughout, Quasthoff threads the fine line between maintaining the songs' musical thread and interpreting the texts without the distortions of overemphasis. Above all, he communicates directly; the songs seem to go from heart to heart. In Schubert's late Schwanengesang--never intended as a seamless cycle--Quasthoff makes these 14 gems adhere as a whole, something that eludes many others. And he's helped by Justus Zeyen's accompaniment, beautifully balanced by the engineers and full of telling pictorial touches. Fine as the Schubert performances are, they're trumped by the Brahms, in one of the most compelling recorded performances they've ever had. The texts, culled from the Bible, drew from Brahms some of his most moving music, here delivered by Quasthoff with empathy and an inevitability that feels spontaneous. It's obvious that the singer feels them deeply, and because he does, and welds that feeling to the highest vocal and musical values, you do, too. --Dan Davis

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Ah, here is greatness.......2006-01-09

I can only second the rapturous reception this recording of Schwanengesang has received. After making a series of attention-getting lieder recitals for RCA, Quasthoff came into his own when he moved to DG and in addition found the superb Justus Zayen to accompany him. Together they pull us completely into Schubert's world and allow us to relax into the blissful communion unique with this composer.

I sympathize with the reviewer below who doesn't find the same dramatic excitment that Bryn Terfel extrcts from these songs. Quasthoff is altogether less theatrical, and he never exhorts. But Quasthoff's decision to balance romance with classicism is truer to Schubert, I think. Here he has discovered a multitude of colors and tones in his voice, yet they are presented on the scale of a drawing room, not an opera house.

Having heard him sing the Brahms Vier ernste Gesange in person, I found the recorded version a shade less compelling--in person Quasthoff can hold an audience spellbound and breathless with his inward, fervent religious feeling. Even so, this account stands at the summit alongside recordings from Janet Baker, Hans Hotter, and perhaps Thomas Allen. Neddless to add, I rate this an unsurpassed recital, the best lieder recording in a decade.

3 out of 5 stars A frustrating disappointment.......2005-11-29

Ordinarily, I am very much a fan of Quasthoff's recordings. His performance, on the DG label, of Brahm's 'Wie rafft' ich mich auf in der Nacht' is just about as sublime as lieder gets. Having said that, and perhaps as a result of coming to this recording from Terfel's magnificent performance with Martineau, I was severely disappointed by this recording.

I am quite surprised at the reviews this recording has received from other members of the public complimenting Quasthoff's vocal 'expression'. Admittedly, Quasthoff has a fantastic voice. The rich, dark, teutonic texture of his voice would match, one would assume, the rich, dark texture of these songs. Frustratingly, however, Quasthoff seems to me really quite detached from the variety of intense emotion that otherwise can be conveyed by this piece of music. His reading throughout the song cycle comes across as almost flat and unemotive. There is a strong sense of a kind of 'calculating deliberation' and ' technical perfection'in these songs that seems to prevent Quasthoff from embracing and communicating the rich, personal initmacy of these songs. It is as though he is reading from the score too closely, with a reluctance to 'let himself go', as it were, and deliver a more personal interpretation of these songs for fear of attracting censure and criticism. The result is disappointingly wooden. The vitality and exhuberance is missing form the earlier songs in the cycle and the deep, deep, personal isolation, loneliness and tragedy of the closing songs is almost completely absent. 'Am Meer' seems a particular case in point. The emotional climax of the song in the last verse is passes without any sense of desperation or awareness. Similar 'frustrations' exist throughout the cycle.

Perhaps, in my naivety, I am attracted to a too Romantic interpretation of these songs to be moved by Quasthoff's more clinical reading, but compared to the enormous and beautifully conveyed emotional range and subtlety of Terfel's recording, this recording does little for the imagination.

Terfel's CD, in case you are interested, though not seemingly available through Amazon, I have seen available on Ebay. Happy hunting.

5 out of 5 stars Plain Singing.......2002-03-09

I never thought I would hear anything like Thomas Quasthoff's performances on this CD. His plain, unaffected, yet technically masterful singing is more than "revelatory." It transmits the emotional impact of the songs very powerfully and with a directness I have never heard from any other singer, whether lieder specialist or not.
Quasthoff, I think, is leading the way as a singer and artist. All singers will be grateful to him, as will the public, for exposing us to lieder which is heart felt, rather than just a mass of calculations. He is indeed a master.

5 out of 5 stars Another fine CD from Quasthoff.......2001-09-15

All of this music is familiar territory for Thomas Quasthoff, so it is not surprising that he conveys a consistency of mood and character. He is not afraid to color his voice in the Schubert and have some restraint in the Brahms, but both are sung in good taste. The recording is warm and captures Quasthoff's voice superbly. There are many voices that will do justice to this music, but Quasthoff knows just how to make his voice meet the demands of these works.

5 out of 5 stars Quasthoff/Zeyen, Schubert/Brahms.......2001-08-22

Thomas Quasthoff/Justus Zeyen - Schubert, "Schwanengesang" Brahms "Vier Ernste Gesaenge"

"To sing like that just once - and then ..............." wrote Maxim Gorky after hearing Chaliapin - and there really are moments on this recording which make one understand exactly what he meant. There is a definitive quality about the singing, which persuades you that Quasthoff's way with these songs is the only one, and his accompanist is in all aspects his equal, with a poetic yet muscular style which ideally complements this most individual of voices, with its noble, burnished tone and its sense of powerful ease.

This combination of works is unique on disc, surprisingly since it is a very logical one; both are late works, both represent the composer's valediction to the genre, and both are ideally suited to the baritone voice. There has been much discussion of late as to whether or not "Schwanengesang" ought to be performed as though it were a "cycle," or as two or even three separate sets of songs. The latter approach was taken in the Hyperion edition, not entirely successfully, but Quasthoff brushes aside these considerations; such is the magnetic power of his singing that one rarely imagines that these songs could be performed in any other way.

All of Quasthoff's great qualities are apparent in the Rellstab settings - superb legato line, natural inflexion of words and that uniquely beautiful tone with its embracing warmth and sweet tremulousness. These interpretations easily stand comparison with the best, and it is a matter of taste as to whether or not you prefer, say, John Mark Ainsley's bright, youthful tone and ardent manner to Quasthoff's aching yet understated passion. For me, Ainsley has the edge in "Liebesbotschaft" and "Staendchen" - in the latter, the tenor is simply perfection; at "Liebchen, komm' zu mir!" you can, as Graham Johnson puts it, almost feel the singer's tenderness, and at "Komm, begluecke mich!" you sense the lover's forlorn mood. Quasthoff also sings this beautifully, but he lacks Ainsley's tender ardour - he is rather fierce at moments, sounding almost threatening rather than pleading.

The Heine and Seidl settings are another matter; here, Quasthoff is in his element, and it would be difficult to find a more ideal interpretation of songs such as "Ihr Bild" and "Am Meer." "Das Fischermaedchen" is beguilingly seductive in a way totally lacking in Anthony Rolfe Johnson's version, and "Die Taubenpost" is one of the finest pieces of Schubert singing I have ever heard. Where Rolfe Johnson annoys with his reedy tone and approximate German, Quasthoff enchants and moves with his exquisite modulation and colouring, especially at the song's close, where he makes you gasp at the way he handles the little appoggiatura lean on "Sehnsucht" and his just-enough pressure on "treuen."

The Brahms set is equally fine; Quasthoff's singing and Zeyen's playing are both magisterial from start to finish. This singer seems to have a special affinity for the music of Brahms, and together with his marvellous pianist, always sensitive and consistently virtuosic in the best possible sense, he convinces the listener that these songs are among the greatest in the genre. Their darkness and almost obsessive quality make them perfect for this voice, and Quasthoff interprets them in wonderfully fervent tones.

Rather than externalising the dramas of both "cycles," this singer conveys their individual moods and feelings not by pointing at himself and saying,"Look at me! See how I suffered," seeming instead to point at us, and say," Look at you!" His singing unites emotional poetic grace with muscular reason, and this major recording is one which will be indispensable for all who love this sublime music.
Marian Anderson Rare and Unpublished Recordings,  1936 - 1952
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • Marian Anderson - an outstanding collection
Marian Anderson Rare and Unpublished Recordings, 1936 - 1952

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ASIN: B00000C2C7
Release Date: 1999-11-30

Tracks:

  1. Se Florindo E Fedele
  2. Begrussung
  3. Die Flote Weich Gefuhl
  4. Die Forelle
  5. Der Doppelganger
  6. Wohin?
  7. Der Jungling Und Der Tod
  8. Der Erlkonig
  9. Denn Es Gehet Dem Menschen
  10. Ich Wandte Mich Und Sahe
  11. O Tod, Wie Bitter Bist Du
  12. Wenn Ich Mit Menschen
  13. Befreit
  14. Im Feld Ein Madchen Singt
  15. Var Det En Drom?
  16. When I Am Laid In Earth
  17. O Men From The Fields
  18. When Night Descends (In The Silence Of Night)
  19. Elegie
  20. Let Us Break Bread Together
  21. My Soul's Been Anchored In De Lord
  22. Trampin'
  23. Sinner, Please Doan Let Dis Harves' Pass
  24. Honor, Honor
  25. The Cuckoo
  26. Will O' The Wisp

Amazon.com

The rich-toned, musically elegant, always dignified contralto Marian Anderson (1897-1993) is probably best known as the first African-American to sing at New York's Metropolitan Opera House, but by the time she did (in the mid '50s), her once burnished, glorious voice was no longer at its best. Years before, when she was not permitted to sing in the Daughters of the American Revolution's Constitution Hall (or any other hall in the U.S. capital), she gave a concert in the open air, in front of the Lincoln Memorial, which was attended by press, dignitaries, and a crowd of more than 75,000. Much of her late work is well known--arias from Verdi's Un ballo in maschera, spirituals, and the like--but this CD also allows us to hear the voice when it was young--in the 1930s and '40s. One can almost hear Schubert's trout ("Die Forelle") dancing around in the water, and an aria by Scarlatti shows Anderson's coloratura abilities--the big voice could be scaled down to intimate, chamberlike proportions. She brings her intelligence and textual insights to other songs by Schubert and Brahms as well. This is a marvelous collection and a fine tribute to an American original. --Robert Levine

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Marian Anderson - an outstanding collection.......2003-05-03

This CD with recordings of Marian Anderson between 1936 and 1952, should be heavily promoted. The CD gives listeners a fantastic opportunity to hear the singer in a variety of song styles and languages. I heard her sing live, once, in the 1960's and was stunned then by her vocal skills and musicality. This is the first record or CD which truly reflects her amazing talent.

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