Composer: Andreas Romberg
Performer: Maria Friesenhausen, Renate Naber, Heiner Hopfer, Guido Knüsel, Städtischer Konzertchor Duisburg
Orchestra: Folkwang Kammerorchester Essen, Bläser der Duisburger Sinfoniker
Conductor: Karl Ridderbusch
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Hänssler
Catalogue: HC23061
Release: 2023
Size: 253 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Das Lied von der Glocke, Op. 25
01. Fest gemauert in der Erden
02. Wohl! Nun kann der Guß beginnen
03. In der Erd ist`s aufgenommen
04. Tausend fleißige Hände regen
05. Holder Friede süße Eintracht
06. Der Meister kann die Form zerbrechen
07. Herein! Gesellen alle
08. Jetzomit der Kraft des Stranges
Friedrich Schiller no doubt reckoned his Lied von der Glocke (The Song of the Bell) among his best poetic creations. He is supposed to have been inspired to write it by a 1788 visit to a bell foundry in Rudolstadt, Thuringia, and carried the idea for his bell founder’s song around with him for years. When Schiller failed to finish it on time for the Musenalmanach in 1797, Goethe, the alamac’ s editor, gave him the good advice and encouragement that “The bell will now have to sound all the better since the ore has been kept longer in the flux and has been rid of all slag” – (Goethe’s letter of 14 October 1797). The poem was published three years later in the Musenalmanach of 1800. Andreas Romberg set the whole long poem of 424 verses at one go – it was published by Simrock in 1809.