Composer: Mauro Giuliani, Franz Joseph Haydn, Franz Anton Hoffmeister, Johann Holzer, Leopold Kozeluch, Josef Anton Steffan, Carl Friberth
Performer: Markus Miesenberger, Erich Traxler, Christian Haimel
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Challenge Classics
Catalogue: CC72936
Release: 2023
Size: 478 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Haydn: 24 Lieder, Hob.XXVIa
01. II. Cupido
02. XII. Die zu späte Ankunft der Mutter
03. Steffan: Dein süßes Bild
04. Friberth: Warnung an die Mädchen
05. Haydn: She Never Told Her Love, Hob. XXVIa:34
Haydn: 24 Lieder, Hob.XXVIa
06. IV. Eine sehr gewöhnliche Geschichte
07. IX. Trost unglücklicher Liebe
08. Giuliani: Romance, Op. 13
09. Haydn: Der erste Kuss, Hob.XXVIa:3
10. Kozeluch: Vogelstellerlied
11. Giuliani: Mon coeur soupire
12. Holzer: Zwei Augen
13. Steffan: Das Mädchen am Ufer
14. Holzer: Kupido
15. Friberth: Das ungetreue Mädchen
16. Kozeluch: An die kleine Schöne
17. Holzer: Liebeslied
18. Ruprecht: Romanze
19. Hoffmeister: Der Entschluss
Accompanied by two specialists playing on period instruments (fortepiano and guitar), the tenor Markus Miesenberg delivers a programme of proto-romantic love songs from Vienna. Besides the remarkable musicological research that lies at the basis of this project, the quality of the performance is linked to the genuine and spontaneous approach of the musicians.
The idea for this recording originated from a direct comparison of the two songs “Cupido” and “Kupido” by the famous composer Joseph Haydn and the lesser-known Viennese composer Johann Holzer. Although both masters use the same text, the musical settings differ considerably in both nature and form. While Haydn’s tunes present the content with a twinkle in the eye and a great deal of subtlety, Holzer’s piece invites the listener to dance along, sparkling with joie de vivre and musicality.
The lyrical tenor Markus Miesenberger received his education as a singer in Vienna with KS Robert Holl, KS Artur Korn and Sebastian Vittucci as well as in the fields violin and baroque viola with Ernst Kovacic and Michi Gaigg in Salzburg, Linz and Vienna.