Composer: Joseph Haydn
Performer: Alice Foccroulle, Pierre Gallon
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Passacaille
Release: 2021
Size: 1.1 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
01. An Thyrsis
02. Eine sehr gewöhnliche Geschichte
03. Der erste Kuss
04. Lob der Faulheit
05. Trost unglücklicher Liebe
06. Jeder meint, der Gegenstand
07. Der Gleichsinn
08. O fließ, ja wallend fließ
09. Auf meines Vaters Grab
10. Geistliches Lied
11. Die Verlassene
12. Ich bin der Verliebteste/Der verdienstvolle Sylvius
13. Das strickende Mädchen
14. Das Leben ist ein Traum
15. Vergiss mein nicht/Antwort auf die Frage eines Mädchens
16. Liebeslied
17. Beim Schmerz, der dieses Herz durchwühlet
18. Zufriedenheit
19. Abschiedslied
With this recording dedicated to a selection of German songs by Joseph Haydn, Alice Foccroulle and Pierre Gallon leave their familiar territory – that of Baroque music – and present a personal, thoroughly informed interpretation of these songs, free of the many layers of varnish that have built up over the centuries on these little treasures of vocal music. It is free of the many layers of varnish that have been applied to these little treasures of vocal music over the centuries. Alice Foccroulle is accompanied partly by harpsichord, partly by pianoforte, and leads us across the narrow ridge between the Baroque and the Classical periods. The listener is invited into the Viennese salons of the late 18th century, where love songs and little philosophical or religious tales in German are performed in domestic settings. They are characterised by tenderness, intensity and humour, sometimes with a touch of cynicism. All in all, Haydn shows himself here from an intimate side, impressively realising the zeitgeist of an epoch in a state of transformation.