Composer: Wilhelm Kienzl
Performer: Malte Muller, Werner Heinrich Schmitt
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Toccata Classics
Catalogue: TOCC0736
Release: 2024
Size: 942 MB
Recovery: +3%
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Liebesfrühling, Op. 11
01. No. 1, So wahr die Sonne scheinet
02. No. 2, Da ich dich einmal gefunden
03. No. 3, Er ist gekommen in Sturm und Regen
04. No. 4, Komm’, verhüllte Schöne!
05. No. 5, Die gute Nacht, die ich dir sage
06. No. 6, Ich lag von sanftem Traum umflossen
07. No. 7, Mir ist, nun ich dich habe
3 Albumblätter, Op. 24
08. No. 1, Viel Träume
09. No. 2, Immer leiser wird mein Schlummer
10. No. 3, Ich liebe dich!
4 Lieder, Op. 44
11. No. 1, Winterlied
12. No. 2, Abendhelle
13. No. 3, Wie ist doch die Erde so schön
14. No. 4, Meine Lust ist leben!
5 Lieder, Op. 82
15. No. 1, Liebesorakel
16. No. 2, Die Sterne
17. No. 3, Im Rosenduft
18. No. 4, Genesung
19. No. 5, Hinauf!
The Austrian composer Wilhelm Kienzl (1857–1941) – also a pianist, conductor, musicologist and writer on music – enjoyed the esteem of his contemporaries particularly for his vocal music. But his star has waned over the past century, and only a handful of his 238 songs have had recent recordings. In style they range from the simple and folk-like to the dramatic and quasioperatic; their harmonic world likewise embraces both the diatonic and chromatic, with hints of the influence of Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, Wagner and a foretaste of later composers. The four song-cycles recorded here treat the grand themes of life: love, loss, death and man’s interaction with nature.