Composer: Frédéric Burgmüller,
Franz Peter Schubert
Performer: Lorenz Duftschmid, Paul Gulda, David Bergmüller, Chris Pichler, Michael Dangl
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: CPO
Catalogue: 555446-2
Release: 2022
Size: 1.24 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Schubert: Sonata in A minor ‘Arpeggione’, D821
01. I. Allegro moderato
02. II. Adagio
03. III. Allegretto
04. Hymne an die Jungfrau
05. Schubert: Ellens Gesang III, Hymne an die Jungfrau, Op. 52 No. 6, D. 839 “Ave Maria” (Arr. for Arpeggione & Piano)
06. Ständchen
Schubert: 13 Lieder nach Gedichten von Rellstab und Heine, D. 957 “Schwanengesang”
07. No. 4, Ständchen (Arr. for Arpeggione & Piano)
08. Gute Nacht
Schubert: Winterreise D911
09. No. 1, Gute Nacht (Arr. for Arpeggione & Piano)
10. Der Tod und das Mädchen
11. Schubert: Der Tod und das Mädchen, Op. 7 No. 3, D. 531 (Arr. for Arpeggione & Piano)
12. Gefrorne Tränen
Schubert: Winterreise D911
13. No. 3, Gefrorne Tränen (Arr. for Arpeggione & Piano)
Burgmüller: 3 Nocturnes for Cello & Guitar (Arr. for Arpeggione & Guitar)
14. No. 1, Andantino
15. No. 2, Adagio cantabile
16. No. 3, Allegro moderato
Franz Schubert’s so-called ‘Arpeggione Sonata’ owes its peculiar name to a long-forgotten string instrument that was usually referred to in Vienna in the 1820s as the ‘bowed guitar’ or ‘guitar-violoncello’. It was an invention of the Viennese instrument maker Georg Stauffer and was quite popular for about a decade. After that, it disappeared into the annals of history. If Schubert had not dedicated his famous sonata to the instrument, the arpeggione would have been long forgotten. But this way, the memory of the instrument was kept alive. To complement the great ‘Arpeggione Sonata’, soloist Lorenz Duftschmid has recorded five Schubert songs in instrumental versions (the poems in question are recited before the instrumental version in each case) as well as three nocturnes by an almost forgotten Romantic from the Rhineland: Friedrich Burgmüller. His ‘Trois Nocturnes’, available in various versions, sound most beautiful and full of emotion on arpeggione and guitar, the two instruments so closely related.