Composer: Eduard Lassen
Performer: Anthony Romaniuk, Reinoud Van Mechelenб Joanna Huszcza
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Musique en Wallonie
Catalogue: MEW2099
Release: 2021
Size: 1.36 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
01. Im April
02. Du meiner Seele schönster Traum
03. Trüber Morgen
04. In Deiner Nähe weil’ Ich noch
05. Wenn der Frühling auf die Berge steigt
06. Nähe des Geliebten
07. Sei nur ruhig, lieber Robin
08. Ich hab’ im Traum geweinet
09. Immer bei dir
10. Sei stille
11. Schlummerlied
12. Childe Harold
13. Mund und Auge
14. Lied eines Mädchens
15. Allerseelen
16. Einsamkeit
17. Vöglein wohin so schnell
18. Mein Herz ist wie die dunkle Nacht
19. Die grossen, stillen Augen
20. Ich hatte einst ein schönes Vaterland
21. Die Waldbrüder
22. Romance
23. En passant!
24. Romance
25. Chanson
26. La coccinelle
27. Si mes vers avaient des ailes
28. Hier au soir
29. Mit deinen blauen Augen
Édouard Lassen never stopped composing. His copious oeuvre contains examples of almost every genre in favour in the second half of the 19th century, from piano pieces to operas, choral works, symphonic and concertante pieces. His international reputation was secured especially by his theatrical works.
He also produced a regular and uninterrupted flow of over 260 songs from 1857 until his death in 1904. The small-scale song form was ideally suited to his temperament imbued with universalism, assuming a dual cultural heritage. The immediate charm of Lassen’s art songs rests on a fusion between a perfect German prosody and a melodious amplitude inherited from the French tradition, the one bringing out the performer’s talents as dramatist and narrator, the other the beauty of their voice and their musicality. It is with mastery that Reinoud Van Mechelen, accompanied by pianist Anthony Romaniuk, rekindles the breath of his now unjustly forgotten melodies, mixing intimacy and depth of sensation.