Korngold: Songs, Vol. 2 / Stallmeister, Fischer, Schenker-Primus, Simon

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Label
Naxos
Release Date
June 25, 2021
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      KORNGOLD, ERICH WOLFGANG
    • PERFORMER
      Fischer, Schenker-Primus, Stallmeister, Simon
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      June 25, 2021
    • UPC
      747313308378
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      8573083
    • LABEL
      Naxos
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. No. 1. Sterbelied (When I am dead, my dearest)

      Composer: Erich Wolfgang Korngold

      Performer: Sibylle Fischer, Klaus Simon

    2. No. 2. Dies eine kann mein Sehnen nimmer fassen (This one thing my longing can never grasp)

      Composer: Erich Wolfgang Korngold

      Performer: Sibylle Fischer, Klaus Simon

    3. No. 3. Mond, so gehst du wieder auf (So, moon, are you again rising)

      Composer: Erich Wolfgang Korngold

      Performer: Sibylle Fischer, Klaus Simon

    4. No. 4. Gefaßter Abschied (A Composed Farewell)

      Composer: Erich Wolfgang Korngold

      Performer: Sibylle Fischer, Klaus Simon

    5. No. 1. In meine innige Nacht (I am entering my innermost night)

      Composer: Erich Wolfgang Korngold

      Performer: Uwe Schenker-Primus, Klaus Simon

    6. No. 2. Tu ab den Schmerz (Lay aside your pain)

      Composer: Erich Wolfgang Korngold

      Performer: Uwe Schenker-Primus, Klaus Simon

    7. No. 3. Versuchung (Temptation)

      Composer: Erich Wolfgang Korngold

      Performer: Uwe Schenker-Primus, Klaus Simon

    8. The Constant Nymph: Morgen (Tomorrow), Op. 33 (reconstructed by K. Simon for voice and piano trio, sung in German)

      Composer: Erich Wolfgang Korngold

      Performer: Britta Stallmeister, Phillip Roy, Peter Franck, Klaus Simon

    9. 5 Lieder, Op. 38: No. 1. I Wish You Bliss (Glückwunsch) (Sung in English)

      Composer: Erich Wolfgang Korngold

      Performer: Uwe Schenker-Primus, Klaus Simon

    10. 5 Lieder, Op. 38: No. 2. Wings (Der Kranke) (Sung in English)

      Composer: Erich Wolfgang Korngold

      Performer: Uwe Schenker-Primus, Klaus Simon

    11. 5 Lieder, Op. 38: No. 3. Old Spanish Song (Alt-Spanisch)

      Composer: Erich Wolfgang Korngold

      Performer: Uwe Schenker-Primus, Klaus Simon

    12. 5 Lieder, Op. 38: No. 4. Old English Song (Alt-Englisch)

      Composer: Erich Wolfgang Korngold

      Performer: Uwe Schenker-Primus, Klaus Simon

    13. 5 Lieder, Op. 38: No. 5. My Mistress' Eyes (Kein Sonnenglanz)

      Composer: Erich Wolfgang Korngold

      Performer: Uwe Schenker-Primus, Klaus Simon

    14. Sonett für Wien (Sonnet for Vienna), Op. 41

      Composer: Erich Wolfgang Korngold

      Performer: Sibylle Fischer, Klaus Simon

    15. Nachts (During the Night)

      Composer: Erich Wolfgang Korngold

      Performer: Sibylle Fischer, Klaus Simon

    16. Der innere Scharm (Inward Charm)

      Composer: Erich Wolfgang Korngold

      Performer: Uwe Schenker-Primus, Klaus Simon

    17. Österreichischer Soldatenabschied (An Austrian Soldier's Farewell)

      Composer: Erich Wolfgang Korngold

      Performer: Uwe Schenker-Primus, Klaus Simon

    18. Ausser (Unless)

      Composer: Erich Wolfgang Korngold

      Performer: Sibylle Fischer, Klaus Simon

    19. Etwas ganz Persönliches (Something Very Personal) (arr. H. Fuhlbom and K. Simon for voice and piano trio)

      Composer: Erich Wolfgang Korngold

      Performer: Britta Stallmeister, Phillip Roy, Peter Franck, Klaus Simon

    20. Die Gansleber im Hause Duschnitz (Goose Liver at the Duschnitz's House)

      Composer: Erich Wolfgang Korngold

      Performer: Uwe Schenker-Primus, Klaus Simon

    21. Quinquaginta-Foxtrott (Quinquaginta Foxtrot)

      Composer: Erich Wolfgang Korngold

      Performer: Sibylle Fischer, Klaus Simon


In his song settings, Korngold pursued the Romantic ideal and lavished considerable care and inventiveness on their composition. His seemingly effortless gift for melody is everywhere ap-parent in this second volume (Vol.1 is on 8.572027), whether in the early works or the songs from the 1940s, which would not sound out of place in an operetta or a Broadway musical. Also present, notably in the Drei Gesänge, Op.18, is an exciting, experimental approach to harmony that reflects the music of his most radical opera, Das Wunderder Heliane (8.660410-12).

REVIEW:

Already in the 1920s, as a young man, Korngold was composing in a powerfully vocal idiom, as can be heard in the four Lieder des Abschieds (Songs of Farewell). He did not become a prolific art song composer, but there are lieder dotted among his long list of compositions This second volume of his complete songs include Sonett fur Wien from 1953, just four years before his death. The mezzo, Sibylle Fischer, has the task of expressing so much sadness in the four Lieder des Abschieds, a mood she passes to the baritone, Uwe Schenker-Primus, in the Drei Gesange. He also has the task to hark on sorrow in the Lieder aus dem Nachlass, and we hear him to better effect in the forthright Five Songs. That Korngold wrote songs for the cinema surfaces with Morgen from the film The Constant Nymph, here recreated with a piano trio accompaniment, and sung with a smooth elegance by Britta Stallmeister. Together with the pianist, Klaus Simon, the vocal trio give us a rare chance to hear forgotten Korngold.

– David's Review Corner (SDavid Dento)