Composer: Carl Loewe, Franz Peter Schubert, Robert Schumann, Hugo Wolf
Performer: Olga Pashchenko, Georg Nigl
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Alpha
Catalogue: ALPHA934
Release: 2023
Size: 1.43 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
01. Schubert: Viola, D. 786
02. Schubert: Der Vater mit dem Kind, D. 906
Loewe: 3 Balladen, Op. 1
03. No. 3, Erlkönig
Loewe: 3 Balladen, Op. 20
04. No. 3, Die wandelnde Glocke
Loewe: Gesammelte Lieder, Gesänge, Romanzen und Balladen, Op. 9 Heft 1
05. No. 5, Graf Eberstein
Loewe: Rückerts Gedichte, Op. 62 Helft 1
06. No. 5, Hinkende Jamben
07. No. 4, Süsses Begräbnis
Loewe: 3 Balladen, Op. 20
08. No. 2, Der Zauberlehrling
Schumann: 5 Lieder, op. 40
09. No. 1, Märzveilchen
10. No. 2, Muttertraum
11. No. 3, Der Soldat
12. No. 4, Der Spielmann
13. No. 5, Verratene Liebe
14. Loewe: Odins Meeresritt, Op. 118
15. Wolf: Mörike-Lieder: No. 47, Die Geister am Mummelsee
16. Wolf: Mörike-Lieder: No. 18, Citronenfalter im April
17. Wolf: Mörike-Lieder: No. 23, Auf ein altes Bild
18. Wolf: Goethe-Lieder: No. 11, Der Rattenfänger
19. Wolf: Mörike-Lieder: No. 44, Der Feuerreiter
Loewe: 3 Balladen, Op. 2
20. No. 2, Herr Oluf
The baritone Georg Nigl is fascinated by ballads, which unfold in him “dream images”. Schubert’s long and little- known lied Viola, based on a poem by Franz von Schober, or the great ballads based on texts by Goethe “opened up a world that has always accompanied me, that of the storyteller (…) stories of frightening beauty, with as many colours as possible…”. The magnificent pianos on this recording – a Christoph Kern fortepiano after Conrad Graf (Vienna, 1826) and a Steinway & Sons concert grand piano (New York, 1875) – beautifully played by Olga Pashchenko, with whom Georg now forms an intimate and inspired duo, allow us to hear “unknown sounds and sometimes unheardof colours”.