Humperdinck: More than a Myth - Chamber Music & Songs by Engelbert Humperdinck / Various

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Haenssler Classic
Release Date
August 20, 2021
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      HUMPERDINCK, ENGELBERT
    • PERFORMER
      Krah, Lauke, Unger, Pertz, Probst, Fingerle-Pfeffer, Schwartz, Berger, Borchev, Berger
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      August 20, 2021
    • UPC
      881488210224
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      HC21022
    • LABEL
      Haenssler Classic
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. Piano Quintet in E-Flat Major: Menuet: Allegro

      Composer: Engelbert Humperdinck

      Performer: Ursula Fingerle-Pfeffer, Thomas Probst, Daniel Schwartz, Clara Berger, Elenora Pertz

    2. Das zerbrochene Ringlein (In einem kuhlen Grunde)

      Composer: Engelbert Humperdinck

      Performer: Nikolay Borchev, Elenora Pertz

    3. Salonstück in A Minor

      Composer: Engelbert Humperdinck

      Performer: Clara Berger, Elenora Pertz

    4. Die Wasserrose (arr. T. Probst for voice and chamber ensemble)

      Composer: Engelbert Humperdinck

      Performer: Nikolay Borchev, Thomas Probst, Susanne Unger, Daniel Schwartz, Clara Berger, Elenora Pertz

    5. Tristan und Isolde, Act I: Prelude (arr. E. Humperdinck for chamber ensemble)

      Composer: Richard Wagner

      Performer: Thomas Probst, Ursula Fingerle-Pfeffer, Daniel Schwartz, Clara Berger, Jörg Ulrich Krah, Karsten Lauke, Elenora Pertz

    6. Ballade (arr. T. Probst for voice and chamber ensemble)

      Composer: Engelbert Humperdinck

      Performer: Nikolay Borchev, Thomas Probst, Susanne Unger, Daniel Schwartz, Clara Berger, Elenora Pertz

    7. String Quartet Movement in E Minor

      Composer: Engelbert Humperdinck

      Performer: Thomas Probst, Ursula Fingerle-Pfeffer, Daniel Schwartz, Clara Berger

    8. I. Andante con moto

      Composer: Engelbert Humperdinck

      Performer: Thomas Probst, Elenora Pertz

    9. II. Allegro

      Composer: Engelbert Humperdinck

      Performer: Thomas Probst, Elenora Pertz

    10. Lied vom Glück

      Composer: Engelbert Humperdinck

      Performer: Nikolay Borchev, Elenora Pertz

    11. Cradle Song (Wiegenlied)

      Composer: Engelbert Humperdinck

      Performer: Nikolay Borchev, Thomas Probst, Susanne Unger, Daniel Schwartz, Clara Berger, Karsten Lauke, Elenora Pertz

    12. Albumblatt for Violin and Piano in F Major

      Composer: Engelbert Humperdinck

      Performer: Thomas Probst, Elenora Pertz

    13. Die wunderschöne Zeit (arr. T. Probst for voice and chamber ensemble)

      Composer: Engelbert Humperdinck

      Performer: Nikolay Borchev, Thomas Probst, Susanne Unger, Daniel Schwartz, Clara Berger, Elenora Pertz

    14. Albumblatt for Piano in C Major (arr. F. Hermann for violin and piano)

      Composer: Engelbert Humperdinck

      Performer: Thomas Probst, Elenora Pertz

    15. Notturno in G Major (version for violin and string quartet)

      Composer: Engelbert Humperdinck

      Performer: Thomas Probst, Susanne Unger, Ursula Fingerle-Pfeffer, Daniel Schwartz, Clara Berger

    16. An die Nachtigall

      Composer: Engelbert Humperdinck

      Performer: Nikolay Borchev, Elenora Pertz

    17. Altdeutsches Weihnachtslied

      Composer: Engelbert Humperdinck

      Performer: Nikolay Borchev, Thomas Probst, Susanne Unger, Daniel Schwartz, Clara Berger, Karsten Lauke


Engelbert Humperdinck (1854–1921) was a student at the Conservatory in Cologne from the spring of 1872; it was at this time that he got to know the Siegburg district judge and arbitrator Johannes Degen (1826–1902), an excellent singer and violinist, who gave regular chamber concerts in Siegburg at which he played in his own string quartet. Humperdinck, whose talent he had astutely spotted, was the pianist and composer he had been looking for. For his part, the young music student saw his admission to Degen’s chamber-music circle as an opportunity for regular performance; in return, he wrote whatever Degen requested. Humperdinck’s tally of 13 chamber compositions represents a relatively small part of his oeuvre (beside his six operas and about 80 Lieder, along with stage music and choral works). Brief album-leaves for violin or cello and piano contrast with works for the major Classical genres of string quartet, piano quintet, piano trio, sonata and sonatina – most of which were never finished and sometimes survive only in the form of short sketches. His finished pieces include two major works, an early piano quintet (1875) and a late string quartet (1920); the other completed movements include some tailored to Degen’s domestic music-making.