Wanderer
A chamber Wayfarer and augmented Schumann songs
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Composer or Director: Robert Schumann, Wilhelm Killmayer, Gustav Mahler
Genre:
Vocal
Label: Challenge Classics
Magazine Review Date: 02/2012
Media Format: Super Audio CD
Media Runtime: 66
Mastering:
Stereo
DDD
Catalogue Number: CC72518
Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
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Romanzen und Balladen I, Movement: No. 2, Frühlingsfahrt (wds. Eichendorff) |
Robert Schumann, Composer
Christoph Prégardien, Tenor Kontraste Ensemble Robert Schumann, Composer |
Waldszenen, Movement: Eintritt |
Robert Schumann, Composer
Christoph Prégardien, Tenor Kontraste Ensemble Robert Schumann, Composer |
Waldszenen, Movement: Einsame Blumen |
Robert Schumann, Composer
Christoph Prégardien, Tenor Kontraste Ensemble Robert Schumann, Composer |
Waldszenen, Movement: Herberge |
Robert Schumann, Composer
Christoph Prégardien, Tenor Kontraste Ensemble Robert Schumann, Composer |
Waldszenen, Movement: Abschied |
Robert Schumann, Composer
Christoph Prégardien, Tenor Kontraste Ensemble Robert Schumann, Composer |
Liederkreis, Movement: No. 3, Waldesgespräch |
Robert Schumann, Composer
Christoph Prégardien, Tenor Kontraste Ensemble Robert Schumann, Composer |
Liederkreis, Movement: No. 5, Mondnacht |
Robert Schumann, Composer
Christoph Prégardien, Tenor Kontraste Ensemble Robert Schumann, Composer |
Liederkreis, Movement: No. 8, In der Fremde |
Robert Schumann, Composer
Christoph Prégardien, Tenor Kontraste Ensemble Robert Schumann, Composer |
(4) Gesänge, Movement: No. 1, Trost im Gesang (wds. Kerner) |
Robert Schumann, Composer
Christoph Prégardien, Tenor Kontraste Ensemble Robert Schumann, Composer |
(4) Gesänge, Movement: No. 2, Lehn deine Wang (wds. Heine) |
Robert Schumann, Composer
Christoph Prégardien, Tenor Kontraste Ensemble Robert Schumann, Composer |
(4) Gesänge, Movement: No. 4, Mein Wagen rollet langsam (wds. Heine) |
Robert Schumann, Composer
Christoph Prégardien, Tenor Kontraste Ensemble Robert Schumann, Composer |
(12) Gedichte, Movement: No. 5, Sehnsucht nach der Waldgegend |
Robert Schumann, Composer
Christoph Prégardien, Tenor Kontraste Ensemble Robert Schumann, Composer |
(12) Gedichte, Movement: No. 7, Wanderung |
Robert Schumann, Composer
Christoph Prégardien, Tenor Kontraste Ensemble Robert Schumann, Composer |
(5) Lieder und Gesänge, Movement: Dein Angesicht |
Robert Schumann, Composer
Christoph Prégardien, Tenor Kontraste Ensemble Robert Schumann, Composer |
(5) Lieder und Gesänge, Movement: Es leuchtet meine Liebe |
Robert Schumann, Composer
Christoph Prégardien, Tenor Kontraste Ensemble Robert Schumann, Composer |
(Der) Dichter spricht |
Robert Schumann, Composer
Christoph Prégardien, Tenor Kontraste Ensemble Robert Schumann, Composer |
Hölderlin Lieder: second cycle, Movement: In lieblicher Blüe... |
Wilhelm Killmayer, Composer
Christoph Prégardien, Tenor Kontraste Ensemble Wilhelm Killmayer, Composer |
Hölderlin Lieder: second cycle, Movement: Der Mensch |
Wilhelm Killmayer, Composer
Christoph Prégardien, Tenor Kontraste Ensemble Wilhelm Killmayer, Composer |
Hölderlin Lieder: second cycle, Movement: ...wie Wolken |
Wilhelm Killmayer, Composer
Christoph Prégardien, Tenor Kontraste Ensemble Wilhelm Killmayer, Composer |
Hölderlin Lieder: second cycle, Movement: Grienchenland |
Wilhelm Killmayer, Composer
Christoph Prégardien, Tenor Kontraste Ensemble Wilhelm Killmayer, Composer |
Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen, 'Songs of a Wayfarer' |
Gustav Mahler, Composer
Christoph Prégardien, Tenor Gustav Mahler, Composer Kontraste Ensemble |
Author: Richard Wigmore
Schoenberg’s Mahler transcription provided the cue for the other arrangements here, made expressly for this recording. In his chamber version of a dozen Schumann songs, plus four numbers from Waldszenen, Marcus Reissenberger often does little more than provide a discreet gloss to Schumann’s piano parts. There are atmospheric touches – shimmering high harmonics in ‘Mondnacht’, woodwind screeches as the witch reveals herself in ‘Waldesgespräch’. But for all Prégardien’s eloquence and involvement (I can’t recall hearing the sinister ‘Es leuchtet meine Liebe’ sung with such frantic abandon), the arrangements add little or nothing to Schumann and could even get irritating on repeated hearing.
Killmayer’s spare settings of the insane Hölderlin’s fragmentary visions – in an idiom somewhere between Hindemith, Carl Orff and the minimalists – have their moments, without always locating the fine line between simplicity and tedium. Again, Prégardien proves a well-nigh ideal interpreter, pacing and pointing the words without self-consciousness. Frustratingly for non-German readers, Challenge provides no translations of these strange and difficult poems – and for all except one you’ll look in vain on the internet.
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