Composer: Johannes Brahms, Theodor Kirchner, Ferencz Liszt, Felix Mendelssohn, Franz Peter Schubert, Clara Schumann, Robert Schumann, Richard Strauss, Richard Wagner, Hugo Wolf
Performer: Cyprien Katsaris, Christoph Prégardien
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Challenge Classics
Catalogue: CC72787
Release: 2018
Size: 596 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
01. Schubert: Die Forelle, D550
02. Liszt: Die Forelle, S563 / 6bis
Schubert: Schwanengesang, D957
03. I. Liebesbotschaft
04. 1. Liebesbotschaft (Transc. by Leopold Godowsky)
Mendelssohn: Auf Flügeln des Gesanges, Op. 34
05. No. 2
Liszt: Mendelssohn Sieben Lieder S547
06. Auf Flugeln des Gesanges
Schumann: Frühlingsnacht
07. No. 12 from Liederkreis, Op. 39
Schumann C: Lieder und Gesänge (30) von Robert Schumann
08. No. 28 Frühlingsnacht
Schumann C: Geheimes Flüstern hier und dort, Op. 23
09. No. 3
Liszt: Geheimes Flüstern hier und dort
10. No. 10 from 10 Lieder von Robert und Clara Schumann, S569)
11. Liszt: Im Rhein, im schönen Strome (2nd version), S272 / 2
Liszt: Buch der Lieder I, S. 531
12. II. Im Rhein, im schönen Strome
Wagner: Wesendonck-Lieder
13. V. Träume
14. V. Träume (Transc. by August Stradal)
05. Wolf: Anakreons Grab (No. 29 from Goethe-Lieder)
Hinze-Reinhold: 10 Pieces after Wolf Lieder
16. VI. Idylle after Anakreons Grab
Strauss: Fünf Lieder, Op. 48
17. I. Freundliche Vision
18. I. Freundliche Vision (Transc. by Walter Gieseking)
19. Kirchner: Frühlingslied
Kirchner: 10 Klavierstücke nach eigenen Liedern, Op. 19
20. X. Frühlingslied
Brahms: Lieder und Gesänge, Op. 59
21. V. Agnes
22. V. Agnes (Transc. by Theodor Kirchner)
Brahms: Romanzen und Lieder Op. 84
23. IV. Vergebliches Ständchen
24. IV. Vergebliches Ständchen (Transc. by Eduard Schütt)
Brahms: Lieder, Op. 49
25. IV. Wiegenlied
26. IV. Wiegenlied (Transc. by Gerald Moore)
Two highly regarded artists of the current classical scene, Christoph Pregardien and Cyprien Katsaris, join together for a unique project: A simple and effective programme which intertwines Lieder and piano transcriptions. The album smoothly flows through a variety of moods and atmospheres creating a hugely pleasurable listening experience and features pieces by Schubert, Liszt, Mendelssohn, Robert Schumann, Clara Schumann, Wagner, Wolf, Brahms and Richard Strauss.
Precise vocal control, clear diction, intelligent musicality and an ability to get to the heart of everything he sings ensures Christoph Prégardien’s place among the world’s foremost lyric tenors. Especially revered as a Lieder singer, he can be heard this season at the Phiharmonie de Paris, the Palace of Arts Budapest, and the Wigmore Hall in London, as well as in Zurich, Lucerne, Kyoto, Tokyo and Bogotá. He will also perform at the Oxford Lieder Festival, the Chopin Festival in Warsaw, the Schubertiade Schwarzenberg Hohenems, as well as part of the “Schubert!” concert series with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra.
Cyprien Katsaris, the French-Cypriot pianist and composer, is a graduate of the Paris Conservatoire where he studied piano with Aline van Barentzen and Monique de la Bruchollerie (piano First Prize, 1969), as well as chamber music with René Leroy and Jean Hubeau (First Prize, 1970), he won the International Young Interpreters Rostrum-UNESCO (Bratislava 1977), the First Prize in the International Cziffra Competition (Versailles 1974) and he was the only western-European prize-winner at the 1972 Queen Elisabeth of Belgium International Competition. He was also awarded the Albert Roussel Foundation Prize (Paris 1970) and the Alex de Vries Foundation Prize (Antwerp 1972).
“Following our first encounter on 7th June 2015 in Hamburg on the occasion of our concert with the Winterreise of Schubert, which proved to be a wonderful experience, and considering our perfect mutual understanding, I wondered whether Christoph Pregardien would be interested in a CD project. But what repertoire? Usually the Lieder aficionados are not interested in piano and pianophiles do not seem to be Lieder fans… Then I thought, how about bringing together those two categories of the human species? Suddenly… EURÊKA! (Thank you, Archimedes!) The concept would be a combination of German Lieder, each of them followed by a piano transcription. Christoph Pregardien immediately agreed.” Cyprien Katsaris