Gundula Janowitz: The Last Recital

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First Hand Records
Release Date
September 1, 2017
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      SCHUBERT SCHUMANN STRAUSS
    • PERFORMER
      Janowitz, Spencer
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      September 01, 2017
    • UPC
      5060216344256
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      FHR56
    • LABEL
      First Hand Records
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. Die Götter Griechenlands, D. 677

      Composer: Franz Schubert

      Performer: Gundula Janowitz, Charles Spencer

    2. Iphigenia, Op. 98, No. 3, D. 573

      Composer: Franz Schubert

      Performer: Gundula Janowitz, Charles Spencer

    3. An die Leier, Op. 56, No. 2, D. 737

      Composer: Franz Schubert

      Performer: Gundula Janowitz, Charles Spencer

    4. Ellens Gesang I (Raste, Krieger), Op. 52, No. 1, D. 837

      Composer: Franz Schubert

      Performer: Gundula Janowitz, Charles Spencer

    5. Fischerweise, D. 881

      Composer: Franz Schubert

      Performer: Gundula Janowitz, Charles Spencer

    6. Der Fluss, D. 693

      Composer: Franz Schubert

      Performer: Gundula Janowitz, Charles Spencer

    7. Im Abendrot, D. 799

      Composer: Franz Schubert

      Performer: Gundula Janowitz, Charles Spencer

    8. Winterreise, Op. 89, D. 911: No. 5. Der Lindenbaum

      Composer: Franz Schubert

      Performer: Gundula Janowitz, Charles Spencer

    9. Das Lied im Grunen, Op. 115, No. 1, D. 917

      Composer: Franz Schubert

      Performer: Gundula Janowitz, Charles Spencer

    10. Myrthen, Op. 25: No. 9. Lied der Suleika

      Composer: Robert Schumann

      Performer: Gundula Janowitz, Charles Spencer

    11. Lieder-Album fur die Jugend, Op. 79: No. 26. Schneeglockchen

      Composer: Robert Schumann

      Performer: Gundula Janowitz, Charles Spencer

    12. Myrthen, Op. 25: No. 7. Die Lotosblume

      Composer: Robert Schumann

      Performer: Gundula Janowitz, Charles Spencer

    13. 6 Gedichte und Requiem, Op. 90: No. 2. Meine Rose

      Composer: Robert Schumann

      Performer: Gundula Janowitz, Charles Spencer

    14. Myrthen, Op. 25: No. 3. Der Nussbaum

      Composer: Robert Schumann

      Performer: Gundula Janowitz, Charles Spencer

    15. 5 Lieder, Op. 15, TrV 148: No. 3. Lob des Leidens

      Composer: Richard Strauss

      Performer: Gundula Janowitz, Charles Spencer

    16. 8 Gedichte aus Letzte Blätter, Op. 10, TrV 141: No. 8. Allerseelen

      Composer: Richard Strauss

      Performer: Gundula Janowitz, Charles Spencer

    17. 4 Lieder, Op. 27, TrV 170: No. 4. Morgen

      Composer: Richard Strauss

      Performer: Gundula Janowitz, Charles Spencer

    18. 3 Lieder, Op. 29, TrV 172: No. 3. Nachtgang

      Composer: Richard Strauss

      Performer: Gundula Janowitz, Charles Spencer

    19. 5 Lieder, Op. 39, TrV 189: No. 4. Befreit

      Composer: Richard Strauss

      Performer: Gundula Janowitz, Charles Spencer

    20. Die Forelle, D. 550

      Composer: Franz Schubert

      Performer: Gundula Janowitz, Charles Spencer




Brigitte Fassbaender said: ‘Gundula Janowitz possesses one of those voices where you have only to hear a couple of notes and you immediately know who it is. Her elegant timbre and unmistakably instrumental way of forming the phrases is unique.’ Few singers have voices that approach the purity of Janowitz’s: with its very fast vibrato and ‘white’ production, the focused sound can soar, swoop and dip with astonishing ease and control, the vocal line becoming almost liquefied into a seemingly endless melisma. Janowitz’s recorded catalogue, tends to misrepresent the focus of her career because it downplays her work as a recitalist. Of course, she did tape all of Schubert’s songs for high voice but apart from a couple of late song recitals and a disc of Hindemith’s Das Marienleben, that is all we have to remember her by as a performer of song. So this album will be a welcome addition to her discography. For her Athens recital, Janowitz chose two composers absolutely at the centre of her song repertoire, Franz Schubert and Richard Strauss, with a third, Robert Schumann, forming a bridge between the two.