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  • The Romantics, Vol. 12: Des Mädchens Klage

    The Romantics, Vol. 12: Des Mädchens Klage

    Musica Omnia Oct 2010
    1 disc
    CD
    $14.99
    1. Kinderlieder aus Deutschland und Europa
    2. Kinderlieder aus Deutschland und Europa
    Carus

    Kinderlieder aus Deutschland und Europa

    CD · 1 disc

    $18.99
    Composer
    SCHINDLER, PETER
    Artist
    Peter Schindler & Band
    Released
    Nov 11, 2014
    Most tellingly, Christmas songs render the joy and anticipation of children at Christmas time. + The children’s choir “SingsalaSing” of the Landesakademie for young musicians in Baden-Württemberg, Ochsenhausen, sing 26 traditional and new yuletide songs from Germany and its neighboring countries. + This CD is part of the “Lieder Project” an effort that promotes and benefits singing with children. + It emphasizes quality and is designed especially for children. + Proceeds from the Lieder Project are donated to causes furthering singing with children.
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  • Kinderlieder aus Deutschland und Europa

    Kinderlieder aus Deutschland und Europa

    Carus Nov 2014
    1 disc
    CD
    $18.99
    • In Jene lebt sich’s bene
    Genuin

    In Jene lebt sich’s bene

    CD · 1 disc

    $20.99
    Composer
    Traditional, Hermann Allmers, Traugott Maximilian Eberwein, Franz Kugler, Ed. May, Felix Mendelssohn
    Artist
    Octavians
    Released
    Mar 07, 2025
    In Jene lebt sich's bene ("In Jena, life is good") - as students sang in Jena in our great-grandfathers' days, so too does the award-winning vocal ensemble Octavians on their third GENUIN album. The program features the most beautiful melodies from the Saale Valley: folk songs, student songs, and hiking songs - a true homage to the city of Jena and the entire region! From "annchen von Tharau" to "An der Saale hellem Strande," from Franz Schubert to Friedrich Silcher and Engelbert Humperdinck, from humorous tunes to sacred evening hymns, the eight singers revive an entire folk culture!
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  • In Jene lebt sich’s bene

    In Jene lebt sich’s bene

    Genuin Mar 2025
    1 disc
    CD
    $20.99
    1. Goethe-Lieder / Antonelou, Gandilyan
    2. Goethe-Lieder / Antonelou, Gandilyan
    Coviello

    Goethe-Lieder / Antonelou, Gandilyan

    CD · 1 disc

    $17.99 $22.99 Save 21%
    Composer
    Ludwig van Beethoven, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Johann Friedrich Reichhardt, Maria Szymanowska, Carl
    Artist
    Fanie Antonelou, Sofya Gandilyan
    Released
    Feb 16, 2024

    He is probably the most famous German "prince of poets" - but music also accompanied Goethe throughout his life: His parents played music and he himself learnt to play several instruments. Naturally, he was interested in having his poems set to music - although he was strict in his requirements. Carl Friedrich Zelter set the poetry to music very "carefully"; in his songs, the rhythm of speech takes centre stage. This obviously corresponded to Goethe's ideas, as he wrote to him in a letter: "I immediately feel that your compositions are identical to my songs, the music only takes the balloon up with it, like an inflowing gas. With other composers, I first have to realise how they took the song, what they made of it." Fortunately, not all of them adhered to Goethe's ideas and thought more independently in terms of composition. This creates a fascinating field of tension between the very different approaches of contemporaries.

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  • Goethe-Lieder / Antonelou, Gandilyan
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    Goethe-Lieder / Antonelou, Gandilyan

    Coviello Feb 2024
    1 disc
    CD
    $22.99 $17.99Save 21%
    • Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau: A Centenary Tribute
    SOMM Recordings

    Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau: A Centenary Tribute

    CD · 2 discs

    $29.99
    Composer
    Anna Amalia, Ferruccio Busoni, Zoltan Kodaly, Gustav Mahler, Max Reger, Johann Friedrich Reichardt
    Artist
    Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Gerald Moore, Irwin Gage, Karl Engel, London Symphony Orchestra, Jon Tolan
    Released
    May 16, 2025
    SOMM Recordings is proud to mark the centenary of the legendary German baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (28 May 1925-18 May 2012) by adding to his canonical discography with live recital and concert recordings from the Music Preserved archive. Fischer-Dieskau was at the very height of his powers from 1960-75, and the performances on this album date from that period. A bonus CD contains two interviews conducted by Jon Tolansky-appearing here in their entirety for the first time-the 75th Birthday Interview (2000) and 80th Birthday Interview (2005). The extraordinarily vast repertoire of Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau over his 45-year career comprised lieder, operas, cantatas, and oratorios. He sang these in German, Italian, French, Russian, English, Hebrew, Hungarian, and Latin, from eras that spanned the Baroque to the latter part of the 20th century. Particularly, it was the controlled power and beauty of his voice, and the dramatic intensity and poetry of his interpretations, that led him to excel in the genre of German lieder. In this form he exerted a virtually unprecedented stylistic and interpretative influence-not only on the musical world of his day, but also on generations of performers to come. SOMM's centenary tribute opens with four songs by Ferruccio Busoni, all being works that were written late in the composer's career. They come from a programme that Fischer-Dieskau gave with Gerald Moore in 1962.  At the 1971 Helsinki Festival, Fischer-Dieskau presented a recital with Irwin Gage, which was devoted entirely to songs with texts by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. The recital, described by a contemporary critic as "a landmark event," featured compositions by contemporaries of Goethe, who lived from 1749 to 1832, such as the Countess Anna Amalia, Kapellmeister Johann Friedrich Reichardt, and Goethe's friend Carl Friedrich Zelter. The more familiar composers represented on this Goethe-inspired recital were active during the first part of the 20th century. They include Richard Strauss, Max Reger, and Ferruccio Busoni. This tribute to Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau also includes six songs from a programme of works by Gustav Mahler, which was presented with his long-time collaborator, Karl Engel. Three of the songs are from Des Knaben Wunderhorn, based on texts of German folk poems, and three are from the collection of five Ruckert-Lieder, after poems written by Friedrich Ruckert. The musical component of this collection closes with a concert performance of three songs by Zoltan Kodaly, sung in Hungarian by Fischer-Dieskau. The composer proves himself an outstanding interpreter of his own music in conducting the London Symphony Orchestra. In the two interviews included on the bonus CD, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau discusses his early years, his teachers, the development of his career, and a small but revealing cross-section of his enormous repertoire.
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  • Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau: A Centenary Tribute

    Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau: A Centenary Tribute

    SOMM Recordings May 2025
    2 discs
    CD
    $29.99
    1. Der schwarzeste Bass: Gottlob Frick Portrait
    2. Der schwarzeste Bass: Gottlob Frick Portrait
    Profil

    Der schwarzeste Bass: Gottlob Frick Portrait

    CD · 4 discs

    $32.99
    Composer
    VARIOUS
    Artist
    Various
    Released
    May 17, 2019
    It was the conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler who first gave Gottlob Frick the nickname "Der schwärzeste Bass". This accolade has been picked up time and again, gone through various manifestations, and become a sort of trademark of the German bass Gottlob Frick. That said, the attribute "black" is often applied to define the vocal range of a basso profundo's ability to produce sonorous deep notes. However, the definition of "black bass" means far more than that: it applies primarily to the deep, dark timbre, the rich and sonorous sound and the lasting flexibility of the voice even in the deep registers, paired with strength, momentum, natural resonance and abundant expression in the entire vocal range. "If you have ever heard the timbre of Gottlob Frick's voice, you will never forget it," as the German singing expert Jürgen Kesting accurately observed in his standard reference work "Die großen Sänger". Gottlob Frick is seen rightly therefore as the incarnation of the black bass. He is a German bass who, thanks to the many sound recordings he left us documenting his sonorous, unusually beautiful and fluently melodic singing, enjoys a popularity to this day that is probably unparalleled in this vocal register. One of the reasons the internationally renowned critic John B. Steane advanced to justify his inclusion of Gottlob Frick in his list of 100 most important singers in "Opera Now" is encapsulated in this fitting characterisation: "When it comes to the Wagnerian basso profundo, the only name in recent times that matters" – by which he means the 1940s to 1980s – "is that of Gottlob Frick: a tower of strength in the strongest ensemble and one of the greatest basses of all time. His voice is steady despite its powerful capacity, supple and splendid. Frick's two-and-a-half-octave bass is remarkably well trained and remains constant through its entire spectrum. He has a strong sense of rhythm and he can sing both legato and staccato in exemplary manner, without depriving his listeners of that rich timbre of his."
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  • Der schwarzeste Bass: Gottlob Frick Portrait

    Der schwarzeste Bass: Gottlob Frick Portrait

    Profil May 2019
    4 discs
    CD
    $32.99
    1. 150 German Folksongs / Prey, Schreier, Dresden Kreuzchor, Thomanerchor Leipzig
    2. 150 German Folksongs / Prey, Schreier, Dresden Kreuzchor, Thomanerchor Leipzig
    Capriccio

    150 German Folksongs / Prey, Schreier, Dresden Kreuzchor, Thomanerchor Leipzig

    CD · 5 discs

    $21.99
    Composer
    TRADITIONAL
    Artist
    Prey, Schreier, Dresdner Kreuzchor, Thomanerchor Leipzig, Regensubrger Domspatze
    Released
    Aug 30, 2011

    A festive concert of great voices, this Volkslied-Edition offers on 5 CDs the most famous and most beloved German folksongs, performed by well known singers like Hermann Prey, Peter Schreier, and famous choirs, especially boys choirs, such as the Dresden Kreuzchor, Thomanerchor Leipzig and the Regensburger Domspatzen. A well done edition for all friends of choir music offered for a verys special price!

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  • 150 German Folksongs / Prey, Schreier, Dresden Kreuzchor, Thomanerchor Leipzig
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    150 German Folksongs / Prey, Schreier, Dresden Kreuzchor, Thomanerchor Leipzig

    Capriccio Aug 2011
    5 discs
    CD
    $21.99