Hidden Treasure - Gal: Unpublished Lieder / Immler, Deutsch

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BIS
Release Date
January 8, 2021
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      GAL, HANS
    • PERFORMER
      Immler, Deutsch
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      January 08, 2021
    • UPC
      7318599925431
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      BIS-2543
    • LABEL
      BIS
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. Lady Rosa

      Composer: Hans Gál

      Performer: Christian Immler, Helmut Deutsch

    2. Nacht (Night)

      Composer: Hans Gál

      Performer: Christian Immler, Helmut Deutsch

    3. Nachts in der Kajüte I (Night in the Cabin I)

      Composer: Hans Gál

      Performer: Christian Immler, Helmut Deutsch

    4. Nachts in der Kajüte II (Night in the Cabin II)

      Composer: Hans Gál

      Performer: Christian Immler, Helmut Deutsch

    5. Nachts in der Kajüte III (Night in the Cabin III)

      Composer: Hans Gál

      Performer: Christian Immler, Helmut Deutsch

    6. Sternenzwiesprach (Star Dialogue)

      Composer: Hans Gál

      Performer: Christian Immler, Helmut Deutsch

    7. Denk' es, o Seele (Think of This, O Soul)

      Composer: Hans Gál

      Performer: Christian Immler, Helmut Deutsch

    8. Maimond (May Moon)

      Composer: Hans Gál

      Performer: Christian Immler, Helmut Deutsch

    9. Minnelied (Love Song)

      Composer: Hans Gál

      Performer: Christian Immler, Helmut Deutsch

    10. Morgengebet (Morning Prayer)

      Composer: Hans Gál

      Performer: Christian Immler, Helmut Deutsch

    11. Dämmerstunde (The Hour of Dusk)

      Composer: Hans Gál

      Performer: Christian Immler, Helmut Deutsch

    12. Glaube nur! (Just Believe!)

      Composer: Hans Gál

      Performer: Christian Immler, Helmut Deutsch

    13. Liebesmüde (Tired of Love)

      Composer: Hans Gál

      Performer: Christian Immler, Helmut Deutsch

    14. Eine gantz neu Schelmweys (A Completely New Rogues' Tune)

      Composer: Hans Gál

      Performer: Christian Immler, Helmut Deutsch

    15. Waldseligkeit (Woodland Bliss)

      Composer: Hans Gál

      Performer: Christian Immler, Helmut Deutsch

    16. Der Wolkenbaum (The Cloud Tree)

      Composer: Hans Gál

      Performer: Christian Immler, Helmut Deutsch

    17. Novembertag (November Day)

      Composer: Hans Gál

      Performer: Christian Immler, Helmut Deutsch

    18. Welch ein Schweigen (What Silence)

      Composer: Hans Gál

      Performer: Christian Immler, Helmut Deutsch

    19. Nachtstürme (Night Storms)

      Composer: Hans Gál

      Performer: Christian Immler, Helmut Deutsch

    20. Blumenlied (Flower Song)

      Composer: Hans Gál

      Performer: Christian Immler, Helmut Deutsch

    21. Schäferlied (Shepherd's Song)

      Composer: Hans Gál

      Performer: Christian Immler, Helmut Deutsch

    22. Abendlied (Evening Song)

      Composer: Hans Gál

      Performer: Christian Immler, Helmut Deutsch

    23. Der böse Tag (The Evil Day)

      Composer: Hans Gál

      Performer: Christian Immler, Helmut Deutsch

    24. Frag nicht! (Don't Ask!)

      Composer: Hans Gál

      Performer: Christian Immler, Helmut Deutsch

    25. Rücknahme (Retraction)

      Composer: Hans Gál

      Performer: Christian Immler, Helmut Deutsch

    26. Abendgespräch (Evening Conversation)

      Composer: Hans Gál

      Performer: Christian Immler, Helmut Deutsch

    27. No. 1. Vergängliches

      Composer: Hans Gál

      Performer: Christian Immler, Helmut Deutsch

    28. No. 2. Der Wiesenbach

      Composer: Hans Gál

      Performer: Christian Immler, Helmut Deutsch

    29. No. 3. Vöglein Schwermut

      Composer: Hans Gál

      Performer: Christian Immler, Helmut Deutsch

    30. No. 4. Drei Prinzessinnen

      Composer: Hans Gál

      Performer: Christian Immler, Helmut Deutsch

    31. No. 5. Abend auf dem Fluss

      Composer: Hans Gál

      Performer: Christian Immler, Helmut Deutsch


Growing up in Vienna, with its great Lied tradition, Hans Gál had written about 100 songs before leaving secondary school. He later destroyed them, along with all his other works composed prior to 1910, but between 1910 and 1921 he wrote many more. Except for the five songs of Op. 33, these were never published, and Gál himself would later refer to them as ‘laid aside’. Many of these songs were publicly performed at the time, however, often with the composer at the piano. Through the initiative of Christian Immler and Helmut Deutsch, 26 of the ‘laid-aside’ songs are now being made available to a modern audience. A labor of love for the performers, the project has had the support of the composer’s family – in fact the recording was produced by Hans Gál’s grandson, Simon Fox-Gál. The songs provide a missing link in Gál’s creative development, and show him engaging with a wide variety of poets, extending back from the twelfth-century (Walther von der Vogelweide) to contemporaries, such as Hermann Hesse and Richard Dehmel, by way of the classics (Heine, Mörike). Reflecting a taste for the exotic which was fashionable at the time, the selection also includes settings of poems by Rabindranath Tagore. The performers close their recital with the Op. 33 set, the only songs that Hans Gál did publish during his long career.

REVIEW:

This is a treasure-trove of songs in the tradition of Richard Strauss, melodically radiant and full of sensitivity to atmosphere. Immler is ideally suited to them, with expansive, radiant tone and splendid diction; Helmut Deutsch sets his peerless pianism at the disposal of composer and singer.

– BBC Music Magazine