Diepenbrock: Complete Songs

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Label
Brilliant Classics
Release Date
January 22, 2021
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      DIEPENBROCK, ALPHONS
    • PERFORMER
      Various
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      January 22, 2021
    • UPC
      5028421961033
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      BRI96103
    • LABEL
      Brilliant Classics
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      3
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. Entsagung

      Composer: Alphons Diepenbrock

      Performer: Christoph Prégardien, Rudolf Jansen

    2. Der Fischer

      Composer: Alphons Diepenbrock

      Performer: Christoph Prégardien, Rudolf Jansen

    3. Der Abend kommt gezogen

      Composer: Alphons Diepenbrock

      Performer: Christoph Prégardien, Rudolf Jansen

    4. Mignon (version for voice and piano)

      Composer: Alphons Diepenbrock

      Performer: Jard van Nes, Rudolf Jansen

    5. Der König in Thule (version for voice and piano)

      Composer: Alphons Diepenbrock

      Performer: Jard van Nes, Rudolf Jansen

    6. Die Liebende schreibt

      Composer: Alphons Diepenbrock

      Performer: Roberta Alexander, Rudolf Jansen

    7. Hinüber wall' ich (version for voice and piano)

      Composer: Alphons Diepenbrock

      Performer: Roberta Alexander, Rudolf Jansen

    8. Es war ein alter Konig

      Composer: Alphons Diepenbrock

      Performer: Robert Holl, Rudolf Jansen

    9. Lied der Spinnerin (version for voice and piano)

      Composer: Alphons Diepenbrock

      Performer: Roberta Alexander, Rudolf Jansen

    10. Der Abend (version for voice and piano)

      Composer: Alphons Diepenbrock

      Performer: Roberta Alexander, Rudolf Jansen

    11. Kann ich im Busen heisse Wunsche tragen

      Composer: Alphons Diepenbrock

      Performer: Jard van Nes, Rudolf Jansen

    12. Liebesklage

      Composer: Alphons Diepenbrock

      Performer: Jard van Nes, Rudolf Jansen

    13. Celebrität

      Composer: Alphons Diepenbrock

      Performer: Robert Holl, Rudolf Jansen

    14. Recueillement

      Composer: Alphons Diepenbrock

      Performer: Robert Holl, Rudolf Jansen

    15. Les chats

      Composer: Alphons Diepenbrock

      Performer: Robert Holl, Rudolf Jansen

    16. L'invitation au voyage

      Composer: Alphons Diepenbrock

      Performer: Christa Pfeiler, Rudolf Jansen

    17. En sourdine

      Composer: Alphons Diepenbrock

      Performer: Jard van Nes, Rudolf Jansen

    18. Clair de lune

      Composer: Alphons Diepenbrock

      Performer: Roberta Alexander, Rudolf Jansen

    19. Mandoline

      Composer: Alphons Diepenbrock

      Performer: Roberta Alexander, Rudolf Jansen

    20. Ecoutez la chanson bien douce (version for voice and piano)

      Composer: Alphons Diepenbrock

      Performer: Roberta Alexander, Rudolf Jansen

    21. Puisque l'aube grandit (version for voice and piano)

      Composer: Alphons Diepenbrock

      Performer: Christa Pfeiler, Rudolf Jansen

    22. La chanson de l'hypertrophique

      Composer: Alphons Diepenbrock

      Performer: Roberta Alexander, Rudolf Jansen

    23. Incantation

      Composer: Alphons Diepenbrock

      Performer: Christa Pfeiler, Rudolf Jansen

    24. Berceuse (version for voice, cello and piano)

      Composer: Alphons Diepenbrock

      Performer: Jard van Nes, Daniël Esser

    25. Ave Maria (version for voice and piano)

      Composer: Alphons Diepenbrock

      Performer: Christa Pfeiler, Rudolf Jansen

    26. Simeon's Lofzang

      Composer: Alphons Diepenbrock

      Performer: Robert Holl, Rudolf Jansen

    27. Preghiera alla Madonna

      Composer: Alphons Diepenbrock

      Performer: Christoph Prégardien, Rudolf Jansen

    28. Come raggio di sol (version for voice and piano)

      Composer: Alphons Diepenbrock

      Performer: Roberta Alexander, Rudolf Jansen

    29. De Klare Dag

      Composer: Alphons Diepenbrock

      Performer: Christoph Prégardien, Rudolf Jansen

    30. Maanlicht

      Composer: Alphons Diepenbrock

      Performer: Christoph Prégardien, Rudolf Jansen

    31. Meinacht

      Composer: Alphons Diepenbrock

      Performer: Jard van Nes, Rudolf Jansen

    32. Ik ben in eenzaamheid niet meer alleen (version for voice and piano)

      Composer: Alphons Diepenbrock

      Performer: Roberta Alexander, Rudolf Jansen

    33. Avondzang

      Composer: Alphons Diepenbrock

      Performer: Christoph Prégardien, Rudolf Jansen

    34. Zij sluimert (version for voice and piano)

      Composer: Alphons Diepenbrock

      Performer: Christoph Prégardien, Rudolf Jansen

    35. Beiaard

      Composer: Alphons Diepenbrock

      Performer: Christa Pfeiler, Rudolf Jansen


Now best known for his ‘symphonic songs’ such as the Hymne an die Nacht, Alphons Diepenbrock won the admiration of his contemporaries Mahler and Strauss for the confident, post-Wagnerian handling of large orchestral forces in support of vocal lines soaked in passion and grief. Unlike them, however, he was chiefly inspired by poetry, and his output is dominated by vocal works, which are particularly fine in atmospheric evocation. Even when writing for the sparer medium of voice and piano, Diepenbrock laid his songs out expansively, underscored with yearning Wagnerian harmonies, and any listener in search of repertoire beyond the songs of Mahler and Strauss is in for a treat. Diepenbrock read widely, and drew on many sources for his songs: classical antiquity, religious texts from the Middle Ages, old Dutch poems, German Romantic choruses, modern French poetry and contemporary Dutch writers. The shared theme of these very different styles in his hands was a tendency towards mysticism and spiritual rapture. Little satisfied with mundane reality and the development of society, he found himself peculiarly attracted to poems which exalted the night and her mysteries. In the song output, this attraction is delicately handled in Der Abend and then much more erotically treated in Kann ich in Musen heisse Wünsche tragen, both on album 1. Album 2 is entirely dedicated to French lyrics by the likes of Verlaine and Rimbaud, full of Debussyan nocturne-like character. Album 3 gathers up the songs to Latin, Italian and Dutch lyrics, reaching a powerful climax with Bejaard, composed in 1917, as an expression of Diepenbrock's indignation towards the German invasion of Belgium in August 1914.

REVIEW:

This 3-CD set, recorded between February 1994 and April 1995, was originally issued by NM Classics, but Brilliant Classics has fortunately obtained the permission to re-release it here. The one drawback is that the booklet contains no song texts or translations. On the evidence here, Diepenbrock is certainly an interesting composer, original in some ways, whose music deserves to be heard and should not have fallen through the cracks of time if not one of the great musical geniuses of his day. Nonetheless, this set is well worth your hearing. All of the performances are excellent, all of the singers are first-rate, and thus they present to you the best possible picture of his talent.

– Art Music Lounge (Lynn René Bayley)