Est 1923

Strauss, R Songs of Love and Death

Satisfying survey of Strauss’s career in song from a sympathetic singer

Record and Artist Details

Composer or Director: Richard Strauss

Genre:

Vocal

Label: Naxos

Media Format: CD or Download

Media Runtime: 62

Mastering:

Stereo
DDD

Catalogue Number: 8 570297

Tracks:

Composition Artist Credit
(4) Lieder, Movement: No. 3, Heimliche Aufforderung (wds. J H Mackay) Richard Strauss, Composer
Hedwig Fassbender, Mezzo soprano
Hilko Dumno, Piano
Richard Strauss, Composer
(2) Lieder, Movement: O wärst du mein Richard Strauss, Composer
Hedwig Fassbender, Mezzo soprano
Hilko Dumno, Piano
Richard Strauss, Composer
(8) Lieder aus Letzte Blätter, Movement: No. 5, Geduld Richard Strauss, Composer
Hedwig Fassbender, Mezzo soprano
Hilko Dumno, Piano
Richard Strauss, Composer
(6) Lieder aus Lotusblättern, Movement: No. 5, Hoffen und wieder verzagen Richard Strauss, Composer
Hedwig Fassbender, Mezzo soprano
Hilko Dumno, Piano
Richard Strauss, Composer
(8) Lieder aus Letzte Blätter, Movement: No. 1, Zueignung (orch 1940) Richard Strauss, Composer
Hedwig Fassbender, Mezzo soprano
Hilko Dumno, Piano
Richard Strauss, Composer
Begegnung Richard Strauss, Composer
Hedwig Fassbender, Mezzo soprano
Hilko Dumno, Piano
Richard Strauss, Composer
Rote Rosen Richard Strauss, Composer
Hedwig Fassbender, Mezzo soprano
Hilko Dumno, Piano
Richard Strauss, Composer
(8) Lieder aus Letzte Blätter, Movement: No. 6, Die Verschwiegenen Richard Strauss, Composer
Hedwig Fassbender, Mezzo soprano
Hilko Dumno, Piano
Richard Strauss, Composer
(6) Lieder aus Lotusblättern, Movement: No. 4, Wie sollten wir geheim sie halten Richard Strauss, Composer
Hedwig Fassbender, Mezzo soprano
Hilko Dumno, Piano
Richard Strauss, Composer
(8) Lieder aus Letzte Blätter, Movement: No. 2, Nichts Richard Strauss, Composer
Hedwig Fassbender, Mezzo soprano
Hilko Dumno, Piano
Richard Strauss, Composer
(8) Lieder aus Letzte Blätter, Movement: No. 4, Die Georgine Richard Strauss, Composer
Hedwig Fassbender, Mezzo soprano
Hilko Dumno, Piano
Richard Strauss, Composer
(8) Lieder aus Letzte Blätter, Movement: No. 7, Die Zeitlose Richard Strauss, Composer
Hedwig Fassbender, Mezzo soprano
Hilko Dumno, Piano
Richard Strauss, Composer
(6) Lieder, Movement: No. 2, Ich liebe dich (wds. Liliencron: 1898, orch Richard Strauss, Composer
Hedwig Fassbender, Mezzo soprano
Hilko Dumno, Piano
Richard Strauss, Composer
(3) Lieder, Movement: No. 3, Nachtgang Richard Strauss, Composer
Hedwig Fassbender, Mezzo soprano
Hilko Dumno, Piano
Richard Strauss, Composer
Schlichte Weisen Richard Strauss, Composer
Hedwig Fassbender, Mezzo soprano
Hilko Dumno, Piano
Richard Strauss, Composer
(5) Lieder, Movement: No. 4, Befreit (wds. Dehmel: orch 1933) Richard Strauss, Composer
Hedwig Fassbender, Mezzo soprano
Hilko Dumno, Piano
Richard Strauss, Composer
(5) Lieder, Movement: No. 3, Lob des Leidens (wds. A F von Schack) Richard Strauss, Composer
Hedwig Fassbender, Mezzo soprano
Hilko Dumno, Piano
Richard Strauss, Composer
(5) Lieder, Movement: No. 4, Aus den Liedern der Trauer (wds. A F von Schack) Richard Strauss, Composer
Hedwig Fassbender, Mezzo soprano
Hilko Dumno, Piano
Richard Strauss, Composer
(6) Lieder aus Lotusblättern, Movement: No. 6, Mein Herz ist stumm, mein Herz ist kalt Richard Strauss, Composer
Hedwig Fassbender, Mezzo soprano
Hilko Dumno, Piano
Richard Strauss, Composer
Nebel Richard Strauss, Composer
Hedwig Fassbender, Mezzo soprano
Hilko Dumno, Piano
Richard Strauss, Composer
(8) Lieder aus Letzte Blätter, Movement: No. 8, Allerseelen Richard Strauss, Composer
Hedwig Fassbender, Mezzo soprano
Hilko Dumno, Piano
Richard Strauss, Composer
(4) Lieder, Movement: No. 1, Ruhe, meine Seele (wds. K Henckell: orch 1948) Richard Strauss, Composer
Hedwig Fassbender, Mezzo soprano
Hilko Dumno, Piano
Richard Strauss, Composer
This singer, who has moved up from lyric mezzo roles to much heavier soprano repertoire (Isolde, Kundry, Marschallin, Berlioz’s Cassandra and Bartók’s Judith), has a small but diverse discography ranging from the Bach Passions to Berio and Holliger, including Naxos’s Swedish-based complete Tristan. The ambition and artistic curiosity that implies is well focused in a far from conventional recital drawing on the earlier part of Strauss’s Lieder output. The well known (“Zueignung”, “Ruhe, meine Seele”) find their place among such earlier material as the portentous Lenau setting “Nebel” (the composer was only 14), “Begegnung” and the song to an early holiday romance “Rote Rosen” (both without opus numbers and completed before Strauss was 20). Although the programme has been cunningly ordered – perhaps by Fassbender’s accompanist Dumno, a teacher of song form – Keith Anderson’s careful booklet annotation offers the chance to follow the growth of Strauss’s muse in chronological order.

Fassbender is an understanding, sympathetic and, above all, straightforward guide to this music. Those who find the (very different) interventionist styles of Schwarzkopf or Anne Schwanewilms too coloured for repeated listening will derive pleasure from this artist’s relatively classical approach. What’s there on the page does the work. It’s also quite a “live” approach in which the artists have OK’d the odd muddy chord or less than rock-solid high note for the sake of a song’s overall shape.

The recording maintains a natural balance between voice and keyboard. It deserves hearing for both its interesting juxtaposition of repertoire and the unaffected sincerity of the performances, and would make a good starting-point for listeners new to Straussian song.

Strauss, R Songs of Love and Death

(4) Lieder, Movement: No. 3, Heimliche Aufforderung (wds. J H Mackay)

(2) Lieder, Movement: O wärst du mein

(8) Lieder aus Letzte Blätter, Movement: No. 5, Geduld

(6) Lieder aus Lotusblättern, Movement: No. 5, Hoffen und wieder verzagen

(8) Lieder aus Letzte Blätter, Movement: No. 1, Zueignung (orch 1940)

Begegnung

Rote Rosen

(8) Lieder aus Letzte Blätter, Movement: No. 6, Die Verschwiegenen

(6) Lieder aus Lotusblättern, Movement: No. 4, Wie sollten wir geheim sie halten

(8) Lieder aus Letzte Blätter, Movement: No. 2, Nichts

(8) Lieder aus Letzte Blätter, Movement: No. 4, Die Georgine

(8) Lieder aus Letzte Blätter, Movement: No. 7, Die Zeitlose

(6) Lieder, Movement: No. 2, Ich liebe dich (wds. Liliencron: 1898, orch

(3) Lieder, Movement: No. 3, Nachtgang

Schlichte Weisen

(5) Lieder, Movement: No. 4, Befreit (wds. Dehmel: orch 1933)

(5) Lieder, Movement: No. 3, Lob des Leidens (wds. A F von Schack)

(5) Lieder, Movement: No. 4, Aus den Liedern der Trauer (wds. A F von Schack)

(6) Lieder aus Lotusblättern, Movement: No. 6, Mein Herz ist stumm, mein Herz ist kalt

Nebel

(8) Lieder aus Letzte Blätter, Movement: No. 8, Allerseelen

(4) Lieder, Movement: No. 1, Ruhe, meine Seele (wds. K Henckell: orch 1948)

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