Angelika Kirchschlager - When Night Falls

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Label
Sony Masterworks
Release Date
November 2, 1999
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      MOZART VARIOUS
    • PERFORMER
      Angelika Kirchschlager
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      November 02, 1999
    • UPC
      074646449820
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      SK64498
    • LABEL
      Sony Masterworks
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Vocal
    Works ⌄

    1. Sweeney Todd: Not While I'm Around

      Composer: Stephen Sondheim

      Performer: Angelika Kirchschlager, Roger Vignoles

    2. The Sound of Music: Edelweiss

      Composer: Richard Rodgers

      Performer: Angelika Kirchschlager, John Christopher Williams

    3. 5 Lieder, Op. 49: No. 4. Wiegenlied

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Performer: Angelika Kirchschlager, Helmut Deutsch

    4. No. 1. Gestillte Sehnsucht (Longing Eased)

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Performer: Angelika Kirchschlager, Yuri Bashmet, Helmut Deutsch

    5. No. 2. Geistliches Wiegenlied (Sacred Lullaby)

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Performer: Angelika Kirchschlager, Yuri Bashmet, Helmut Deutsch

    6. Wiegenlied, Op. 105, No. 2, D. 867

      Composer: Franz Schubert

      Performer: Angelika Kirchschlager, Helmut Deutsch

    7. 15 Volks-Kinderlieder, WoO 31: No. 4. Sandmannchen

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Performer: Angelika Kirchschlager, Helmut Deutsch

    8. The Consul: Mother's Aria (arr. S. Mercurio for voice and orchestra)

      Composer: Gian Carlo Menotti

      Performer: Angelika Kirchschlager

    9. No. 4. Brezairola (Cradle Song)

      Composer: Joseph Canteloube

      Performer: Angelika Kirchschlager, Roger Vignoles

    10. No. 2. Oi Ayai (Oh No!)

      Composer: Joseph Canteloube

      Performer: Angelika Kirchschlager, Roger Vignoles

    11. Ar Hyd y Nos (All through the Night), Hob.HXXXI:b:9

      Composer: Franz Joseph Haydn

      Performer: Angelika Kirchschlager, Jonathan Rees, Dave Daniels, Roger Vignoles

    12. Sehnsucht nach dem Fruhling, K. 596

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Performer: Angelika Kirchschlager, Helmut Deutsch

    13. 4 Songs, Op. 25, J. 110-113: No. 3. Lass mich schlummern, Herzlein, schweige, J. 112

      Composer: Carl Maria von Weber

      Performer: Angelika Kirchschlager, John Christopher Williams

    14. 7 Canciones populares españolas: No. 5. Nana (arr. M. Llobet Soles for voice and piano)

      Composer: Manuel de Falla

      Performer: Angelika Kirchschlager, John Christopher Williams

    15. 5 Canciones negras: No. 4. Cancion de Cuna para Dormir a un Negrito

      Composer: Xavier Montsalvatge

      Performer: Angelika Kirchschlager, Roger Vignoles

    16. Old American Songs II: No. 1. The Little Horses (arr. J. Williams for voice and guitar)

      Composer: Aaron Copland

      Performer: Angelika Kirchschlager, John Christopher Williams

    17. Cantiga de ninar (Baby's Goodnight Song)

      Composer: Miguel Kertsman

      Performer: Angelika Kirchschlager, John Christopher Williams

    18. Susse, susse Sommernacht

      Composer: Alexander Zemlinsky

      Performer: Angelika Kirchschlager, Helmut Deutsch

    19. Wiegenlied, Op. 98, No. 2, D. 498

      Composer: Franz Schubert

      Performer: Angelika Kirchschlager, Helmut Deutsch

    20. Into the Woods, Act I: Stay with Me

      Composer: Stephen Sondheim

      Performer: Angelika Kirchschlager, Roger Vignoles


The story goes that Sony had to twist Angelika Kirchschlager’s arm pretty hard to persuade her to record this compilation: after all, she has hitherto been known for rather more rigorous programming both in live recital and on disc. With pictures of herself and her baby enfolded in a bath towel, the packaging may be soft-focus, but Kirchschlager proves herself no soft touch. She takes it all seriously enough to use a Welsh, Provencal and Portuguese language coach where necessary; and to include songs which go darker and deeper than the (itals)Wiegenlieder(end itals) of Schubert and Brahms which frame this recital. For here, too, is Brahms’s ‘Gestille Sehnsucht’, revealing the shadowy yearnings of the distinctly adult soul; and Weber’s ‘Lass mich schlummern’, its latent agitation trembling through John Williams’s guitar accompaniment. The breadth of idiom within this ostensibly single-mood recital is matched by the variety of accompaniment: as well as Williams’s guitar, Yuri Bashmet’s viola puts in an appearance for Brahms, and Roger Vignoles joins the chamber-musical soloists who accompany Haydn’s arrangement of ‘Ar hyd y nos’. Kirchschlager’s kid-gloves Welsh is as nicely attuned to Haydn’s prettification of the folksong as her English is to lullabies by Menotti and Copland, and to the surprising re-invention of ‘Edelweiss’ as folksong manque.

-- Hilary Finch, BBC Music Magazine