Composer: Alban Berg, Arnold Schoenberg, Richard Strauss, Max Wolff
Performer: Lucy Crowe, Anna Tilbrook
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Linn
Catalogue: CKD656
Release: 2021
Size: 1.24 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Strauss: Acht Gedichte aus Letzte Blätter, Op. 10
01. I. Zueignung
02. II. Nichts
03. III. Die Nacht
04. IV. Die Georgine
05. VIII. Allerseelen
Berg: Sieben frühe Lieder
06. I. Nacht
07. II. Schilflied
08. III. Die Nachtigall
09. IV. Traumgekrönt
10. V. Im Zimmer
11. VI. Liebesode
12. VII. Sommertage
13. Strauss: Ich Schwebe, Op. 48 No. 2
14. Strauss: Ständchen, Op. 17 No. 2
15. Strauss: Nachtgang Op. 29 No. 3
16. Strauss: Morgen, Op. 27 No. 4
Schoenberg: 4 Lieder Op. 2
17. I. Erwartung
18. II. Schenk mir deinen goldenen Kamm
19. III. Erhebung
20. IV. Waldsonne
Strauss, Wolff: Vier letzte Lieder, TrV 296
21. I. Frühling
22. II. September
23. III. Beim Schlafengehn
24. IV. Im Abendrot
Lucy Crowe makes her Linn recital debut with a programme of lieder by Berg, Richard Strauss and Schoenberg, which perfectly highlights why she is known as one of the leading lyric sopranos of her generation. Lucy is joined by pianist Anna Tilbrook, with whom she has forged a near symbiotic connection over a twenty-year professional partnership, comprising numerous performances at Wigmore and Queen Elizabeth Halls, London, and Carnegie Hall, New York. The programme encompasses both the beginning and end of Strauss’s prodigious songwriting career with five songs from his first published set Acht Gedichte aus Letzte Blätter plus his posthumously published swansong of sublime beauty, Vier letzte Lieder. Berg’s Sieben frühe Lieder are landmark compositions which invoke the late Romantic world of Strauss; they sit alongside Vier Lieder by Berg’s mentor Schoenberg, whose post-Wagnerian chromaticism points to the composer’s later style. Following their Wigmore Hall performance in June 2020 The Guardian stated: “Berg’s Seven Early Songs suits Crowe uncommonly well, with her exquisite tone, fastidious sense of line, and understated but telling way with wordsé.