Saga

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Label
Alpha
Release Date
September 27, 2019
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      JENSEN LOEWE SCHUBERT
    • PERFORMER
      Krimmel, Tchakarova
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      September 27, 2019
    • UPC
      3760014195495
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      ALPHA549
    • LABEL
      Alpha
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. Tom der Reimer, Op. 135a

      Composer: Carl Loewe

      Performer: Konstantin Krimmel, Doriana Tchakarova

    2. No. 2. Die braut

      Composer: Adolf Jensen

      Performer: Konstantin Krimmel, Doriana Tchakarova

    3. No. 4. Rübezahl

      Composer: Adolf Jensen

      Performer: Konstantin Krimmel, Doriana Tchakarova

    4. 3 Balladen, Op. 2: No. 2. Herr Oluf

      Composer: Carl Loewe

      Performer: Konstantin Krimmel, Doriana Tchakarova

    5. 3 Balladen, Op. 1: No. 3. Erlkönig

      Composer: Carl Loewe

      Performer: Konstantin Krimmel, Doriana Tchakarova

    6. 4 Gesänge, Op. 5: No. 4. Waldesgesprach

      Composer: Adolf Jensen

      Performer: Konstantin Krimmel, Doriana Tchakarova

    7. Der Zwerg, Op. 22, No. 1, D. 771

      Composer: Franz Schubert

      Performer: Konstantin Krimmel, Doriana Tchakarova

    8. Gruppe aus dem Tartarus, Op. 24, No. 1, D. 583

      Composer: Franz Schubert

      Performer: Konstantin Krimmel, Doriana Tchakarova

    9. Belsatzar, Op. 57

      Composer: Robert Schumann

      Performer: Konstantin Krimmel, Doriana Tchakarova

    10. No. 2. Die feindlichen Bruder

      Composer: Robert Schumann

      Performer: Konstantin Krimmel, Doriana Tchakarova

    11. No. 1. Die beiden Grenadiere

      Composer: Robert Schumann

      Performer: Konstantin Krimmel, Doriana Tchakarova

    12. Prometheus, D. 674

      Composer: Franz Schubert

      Performer: Konstantin Krimmel, Doriana Tchakarova

    13. Odins Meeresritt, Op. 118

      Composer: Carl Loewe

      Performer: Konstantin Krimmel, Doriana Tchakarova


The young German baritone Konstantin Krimmel won the prestigious Preis des Deutschen Musikwettbewerbs in 2019, in addition to the Helmut Deutsch Prize. He joins Alpha for a number of recordings, starting with this programme of lieder conceived with his longstanding partner, the pianist Doriana Tchakarova. This lover of words, a particularly expressive performer in concert, wanted to 'tell a story' for his first album: he chose to record a selection of ballads, because 'they are genuine operas in just a few minutes... mini-sagas that permit great interpretative freedom'. Among the great poets present here are Schiller, Goethe and Heinrich Heine. As to the composers, alongside the indispensable Schubert and Schumann, this programme presents a great master of the genre, Carl Loewe, who wrote several hundred ballads: the works recorded here, inspired by Scots poems or Danish legends, are especially eloquent. There is also a chance to discover the much more rarely recorded Adolf Jensen, a great admirer of Wagner, whom he met in 1861: 'To translate Wagner's ideas of Beauty and Truth to smaller forms has been my aim in all my later compositions.'