Composer: Ferencz Liszt
Performer: Konstantin Krimmel, Daniel Heide
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Avi Music
Catalogue: AVI8553568
Release: 2022
Size: 0.98 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
01. Es war ein König von Thule, S. 278B
02. Wer nie sein Brot mit Tränen aß, S. 297B
03. Über allen Gipfeln ist Ruh’, S. 306B
04. Der du von dem Himmel bist, S. 279C
05. Freudvoll und leidvoll, S. 280C
06. Gebet, S. 331
07. Einst, S. 332
08. An Edlitam, S. 333
09. Der Glückliche, S. 334
10. Du bist wioe eine Blume, S. 287B
11. Im Rhein im schönen Strome, S. 272B
12. Morgens stegh’ ich auf und frage, S. 290B
13. Anfangs wollt’ ich fast verzagen, S. 311B
14. Vergiftet sind meine Lieder, S. 289B
15. Der Fichtenbaum steht einsam, S. 309B
16. Die Loreley, S. 273B
17. Des Tages laute Stimmen schweigen, S. 337
18. Verlassen, S. 336
19. Und wir dachten der Toten, S. 338
This is the second volume of a planned series of Liszt songs. The pianist Daniel Heide discovered some of the originals and has put the program together. He is joined on the recording by baritone Konstantin Krimmel, who recently joined the Munich State Opera team.
Compared with the catalogues of Schubert, Loewe, or Schumann, the Lieder output of Franz Liszt seems quite modest in terms of quantity. Unexpected obstacles make it difficult, however, to obtain an overview of the entire catalogue. Not all of Liszt’s songs are published as sheet music, and this has always been the case; the only currently available collection is a meager anthology of ca. 40 Lieder. The old, 3-volume Leipzig collection edited by C. F. Kahnt contains 57 songs, whereas the most complete edition is the one from 1919-1920 by Carl Alexander, Archduke of Weimar, which is hard to come by.
In the meantime, Internet platforms such as Petrucci (imslp.org) have become well-stocked archives where one can find older sheet music that would otherwise be unavailable. According to Daniel Heide’s research in the past ten years, Franz Liszt had an output of ca. 85 Lieder, or, shall we say, “titles”. If we also count his revisions or completely new versions of songs, we can speak of a total of 135 to 140 songs. Curiously enough, brief songs by Liszt continue to turn up in estates and auctions all over Europe. As a travelling virtuoso, Liszt occasionally wrote down entire songs in guest books when he was invited to the homes of nobility, or to perform in evening soirées. One can also find a few songs he wrote as “arrangements” of melodies or poems of his patrons or benefactors. Several Lieder gems by Liszt are still slumbering in the Goethe-Schiller Archive in Weimar. for instance.