Composer: Alban Berg, Walter Braunfels, Engelbert Humperdinck, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Gustav Mahler, Hans Pfitzner, Alexander von Zemlinsky
Performer: Samuel Hasselhorn
Orchestra: Poznań Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor: Lukasz Borowicz
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Harmonia Mundi
Catalogue: HMM902384
Release: 2024
Size: 938 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
01. Mahler: Des Knaben Wunderhorn: Revelge
02. Humperdinck: Königskinder, Act III Finale: Verdorben! Gestorben! (Fiddler’s aria)
03. Korngold: Die tote Stadt, Op. 12: Mein Sehnen, mein Wähnen (Pierrot’s Tanzlied)
04. Mahler: Rückert Lieder: Um Mitternacht
05. Pfitzner: Herr Olf, Op. 12
06. Mahler: Des Knaben Wunderhorn: Urlicht
07. Zemlinsky: Zwei Gesänge: Der alte Garten
08. Braunfels: Auf ein Soldatengrab, Op. 26
09. Berg: Wozzeck, Act III Scene 2: Dort links geht’s in die Stadt (Wozzeck and Marie’s duo)
10. Mahler: Rückert Lieder: Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen
At the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the lied increasingly took on orchestral garb. The boundary with opera became almost impalpable. That is what Samuel Hasselhorn and Łukasz Borowicz demonstrate here, in a splendid programme mingling smiles and disillusionment, where some of the most characteristic orchestral lieder and operatic arias of this Austro-German ‘fin de siècle’ era blend perfectly together.