MACDOWELL: Songs (Complete)

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Label
Naxos
Release Date
May 1, 1999
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      MACDOWELL
    • PERFORMER
      Steven, James, Tharp, Barbagallo
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      May 01, 1999
    • UPC
      636943903223
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      8559032
    • LABEL
      Naxos
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. Menie

      Composer: Edward MacDowell

      Performer: Steven Tharp, James Barbagallo

    2. My Jean

      Composer: Edward MacDowell

      Performer: Steven Tharp, James Barbagallo

    3. Bitte (A Request)

      Composer: Edward MacDowell

    4. Geistliches Wiegenlied (Cradle Hymn)

      Composer: Edward MacDowell

    5. Idylle (Idyll)

      Composer: Edward MacDowell

    6. Tyrant Love

      Composer: Edward MacDowell

    7. Fair Springtide

      Composer: Edward MacDowell

    8. To the Golden Rod

      Composer: Edward MacDowell

    9. Sweet Blue-eyed Maid

      Composer: Edward MacDowell

    10. Sweetheart, Tell Me

      Composer: Edward MacDowell

    11. Thy Beaming Eyes

      Composer: Edward MacDowell

    12. For Sweet Love's Sake

      Composer: Edward MacDowell

    13. O, Lovely Rose

      Composer: Edward MacDowell

    14. I Ask But This

      Composer: Edward MacDowell

    15. Mein Liebchen (My Love and I Sat Close Together)

      Composer: Edward MacDowell

    16. Du liebst mich nicht (You Love Me Not)

      Composer: Edward MacDowell

    17. Oben, wo die Sterne glühen (The Skies, where the Stars are Glowing)

      Composer: Edward MacDowell

    18. Nachtlied (Night Song)

      Composer: Edward MacDowell

    19. Das Rosenband (The Band of Roses)

      Composer: Edward MacDowell

    20. The Pansy

      Composer: Edward MacDowell

    21. The Myrtle

      Composer: Edward MacDowell

    22. The Clover

      Composer: Edward MacDowell

    23. The Yellow Daisy

      Composer: Edward MacDowell

    24. The Bluebell

      Composer: Edward MacDowell

    25. The Mignonette

      Composer: Edward MacDowell

    26. The Robin Sings in the Apple Tree

      Composer: Edward MacDowell

    27. Midsummer Lullaby

      Composer: Edward MacDowell

    28. Folksong

      Composer: Edward MacDowell

    29. Confidence

      Composer: Edward MacDowell

    30. The West Wind Croons in the Cedar Trees

      Composer: Edward MacDowell

    31. In the Woods

      Composer: Edward MacDowell

    32. The Sea

      Composer: Edward MacDowell

    33. Through the Meadow

      Composer: Edward MacDowell

    34. Deserted

      Composer: Edward MacDowell

    35. Slumber Song

      Composer: Edward MacDowell

    36. Long Ago, Sweetheart Mine

      Composer: Edward MacDowell

    37. The Swan Bent Low to the Lily

      Composer: Edward MacDowell

    38. A Maid Sings Light

      Composer: Edward MacDowell

    39. As the Gloaming Shadows Creep

      Composer: Edward MacDowell

    40. Constancy

      Composer: Edward MacDowell

    41. Sunrise

      Composer: Edward MacDowell

    42. Merry Maiden Spring

      Composer: Edward MacDowell


This is the first complete recording of MacDowell's art songs. Between 1883 and 1902 he composed a total of 42 songs, which were, however, published out of chronological sequence. The earliest in opus number, the Two Old Songs, Opus 9, were actually the eighth group of songs MacDowell wrote. MacDowell's songs in their order of composition, marked a change in technical style. The earliest, dating from 1883, are full and opulent, but he soon began cutting back the piano score to the merest background for the vocal line. The earliest songs were composed in 1883 and published as Opp. 11 and 12 by C.F. Kahnt in Leipzig. In 1898 Breitkopf & Hartel reprinted the five songs as one set. Heinrich Heine is the author of the poems for Du liebst mich nicht (You Love me Not), Oben, wo die Sterne gluhen (The Skies, where Stars are Glowing) and Mein LiebGhen (My Love and I sat Close Together). The texts for the two songs of Opus 12 are by Emanuel Geibel and Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock. MacDowel1 was still very much under the influence of Raff and these five early songs are fairly Germanic in both style and beauty and some biographers have even compared them stylistically to early Richard Strauss.