Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven, Benjamin Britten, Franz Joseph Haydn
Performer: Christian Gerhaher, Anton Barachovsky, Sebastian Klinger, Gerold Huber
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: BR Klassik
Catalogue: 900131
Release: 2016
Size: 549 MB
Recovery: +3%
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01. Haydn: Fließ leise mein Bächlein, Hob.XXXIa / 253 A
02. Haydn: Ein Wandrer kommt von ferne, Hob.XXXIb:3
03. Haydn: Ich stehe auf der Heide, Hob.XXXIb:27
04. Haydn: Es weiden meine Schafe, Hob.XXXIa:153
05. Haydn: Im Schummern, da kam ich einst zu dir, Hob.XXXIb:36
06. Haydn: Rose weiss Rose rot, Hob.XXXb:10
Britten: Folksongs Volume 5: British Isles · Folk Songs
07. No. 5. Ca’ the yowes
08. No. 2. Sally in our Alley
09. Britten: Folksongs Volume 3: British Isles · Pray Goody
10. Britten: Folksongs Volume 1: British Isles · Folk Songs
Britten: Folksongs Volume 4: Moore’s Irish Melodies
11. No. 3. How sweet the answer
12. No. 5. At the mid hour of night
13. No. 7. Dear harp of my country!
14. No. 1. Avenging and bright
Beethoven: Scottish Songs, Op. 108
15. No. 16. Could this ill world have been contriv’d
16. No. 13. Come fill, fill my good fellow
17. No. 3. O sweet were the hours
18. No. 20. Faithfu’ Johnie
19. No. 2. Sunset
As a Lied interpreter, on the concert stage and, increasingly, on the operatic stage as well, the baritone Christian Gerhaher is currently setting new artistic standards. After publication of two choral-symphonic recordings with this exceptional singer, BR-KLASSIK now presents a Lieder CD containing recorded material from Gerhaher’s time as Artist in Residence with the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks. Gerhaher’s finely coordinated programme –ambiguously entitled “folkslied” – examines the exciting contrast between the Volkslied(folk song) and the Kunstlied (art song). It contains the rarely heard Folk Song Arrangementsby Benjamin Britten, the folk song arrangements for piano trio and voice by Beethoven and Haydn. Gerhaher’s decision to use German texts to Haydn’s melodies that were published inthe 1920s represents a tribute to Fritz Wunderlich, whose first recording of the German text versions is particularly close to his heart. The instrumental partners are: Gerold Huber, Gerhaher’s longtime accompanist; Sebastian Klinger, the principal cellist of the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks who is currently pursuing a solo career; and, on the violin, Anton Barachovsky, leader of the Symphonieorchester.