Soirée - Magdalena Kožená & Friends

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PENTATONE
Release Date
September 13, 2019
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      VARIOUS
    • PERFORMER
      Kozena, Rattle, Brandl, Rilling, Deyneka, Adorjan, Marriner, Zahnder
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      September 13, 2019
    • UPC
      827949067167
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      PTC5186671
    • LABEL
      PENTATONE
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. Chanson perpétuelle, Op. 37

      Composer: Ernest Chausson

      Performer: Magdalena Kožená, Wolfram Brandl, Rahel Rilling, Julia Deyneka, David Adorján, Sir Simon Rattle

    2. No. 1. Má píseň zas mi láskou zní (My song resounds with love)

      Composer: Antonín Dvořák

      Performer: Magdalena Kožená, Kaspar Zehnder, Andrew Marriner, Wolfram Brandl, Rahel Rilling, Julia Deyneka, David Adorján, Sir Simon Rattle

    3. No. 6. Širokými rukávy (Wide sleeves)

      Composer: Antonín Dvořák

      Performer: Magdalena Kožená, Kaspar Zehnder, Andrew Marriner, Wolfram Brandl, Rahel Rilling, Julia Deyneka, David Adorján, Sir Simon Rattle

    4. Cypriše (Cypresses), B. 11: No. 11. Mé srdce často (My heart is often in pain) (arr. D. Ward for voice, flute, clarinet, string quartet and piano)

      Composer: Antonín Dvořák

      Performer: Magdalena Kožená, Kaspar Zehnder, Andrew Marriner, Wolfram Brandl, Rahel Rilling, Julia Deyneka, David Adorján, Sir Simon Rattle

    5. No. 2. Žalo dievča (The Moweress)

      Composer: Antonín Dvořák

      Performer: Magdalena Kožená, Kaspar Zehnder, Andrew Marriner, Wolfram Brandl, Rahel Rilling, Julia Deyneka, David Adorján, Sir Simon Rattle

    6. No. 4. Když mne stará matka (When my mother taught me)

      Composer: Antonín Dvořák

      Performer: Magdalena Kožená, Kaspar Zehnder, Andrew Marriner, Wolfram Brandl, Rahel Rilling, Julia Deyneka, David Adorján, Sir Simon Rattle

    7. No. 5. Struna naladěna (The strings are tuned)

      Composer: Antonín Dvořák

      Performer: Magdalena Kožená, Kaspar Zehnder, Andrew Marriner, Wolfram Brandl, Rahel Rilling, Julia Deyneka, David Adorján, Sir Simon Rattle

    8. No. 1. Dobrú noc, má milá (Good-night, my darling)

      Composer: Antonín Dvořák

      Performer: Magdalena Kožená, Kaspar Zehnder, Andrew Marriner, Wolfram Brandl, Rahel Rilling, Julia Deyneka, David Adorján, Sir Simon Rattle

    9. No. 1. Gestillte Sehnsucht (Longing Eased)

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Performer: Magdalena Kožená, Julia Deyneka, Sir Simon Rattle

    10. No. 2. Geistliches Wiegenlied (Sacred Lullaby)

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Performer: Magdalena Kožená, Julia Deyneka, Sir Simon Rattle

    11. No. 1. Musick to heare

      Composer: Igor Stravinsky

      Performer: Magdalena Kožená, Kaspar Zehnder, Andrew Marriner, Julia Deyneka

    12. No. 2. Full fadom five

      Composer: Igor Stravinsky

      Performer: Magdalena Kožená, Kaspar Zehnder, Andrew Marriner, Julia Deyneka

    13. No. 3. When dasies pied

      Composer: Igor Stravinsky

      Performer: Magdalena Kožená, Kaspar Zehnder, Andrew Marriner, Julia Deyneka

    14. No. 1. Nahandove

      Composer: Maurice Ravel

      Performer: Magdalena Kožená, Kaspar Zehnder, David Adorján, Sir Simon Rattle

    15. No. 2. Aoua!

      Composer: Maurice Ravel

      Performer: Magdalena Kožená, Kaspar Zehnder, David Adorján, Sir Simon Rattle

    16. No. 3. Il est doux

      Composer: Maurice Ravel

      Performer: Magdalena Kožená, Kaspar Zehnder, David Adorján, Sir Simon Rattle

    17. No. 1. Wie erkenn' ich dein Treulieb

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Performer: Magdalena Kožená, Wolfram Brandl, Rahel Rilling, Julia Deyneka, David Adorján

    18. No. 2. Sein Leichenhemd weiss wie Schnee

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Performer: Magdalena Kožená, Wolfram Brandl, Rahel Rilling, Julia Deyneka, David Adorján

    19. No. 3. Auf morgen ist Sankt Valentins Tag

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Performer: Magdalena Kožená, Wolfram Brandl, Rahel Rilling, Julia Deyneka, David Adorján

    20. No. 4. Sie trugen ihn auf der Bahre bloss

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Performer: Magdalena Kožená, Wolfram Brandl, Rahel Rilling, Julia Deyneka, David Adorján

    21. No. 5. Und kommt er nicht mehr zurück?

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Performer: Magdalena Kožená, Wolfram Brandl, Rahel Rilling, Julia Deyneka, David Adorján

    22. No. 3. Leze krtek (The mole creeps)

      Composer: Leoš Janáček

      Performer: Magdalena Kožená, Andrew Marriner, Sir Simon Rattle

    23. No. 4. Karel do pekla zajel (Karel rode off to hell)

      Composer: Leoš Janáček

      Performer: Magdalena Kožená, Andrew Marriner, Sir Simon Rattle

    24. No. 6. Franta rasůl hrálna basu (Franta Rusal playing bass)

      Composer: Leoš Janáček

      Performer: Magdalena Kožená, Andrew Marriner, Sir Simon Rattle

    25. No. 8. Dĕlám, dĕlám kázání (Children, hear my sermon)

      Composer: Leoš Janáček

      Performer: Magdalena Kožená, Andrew Marriner, Sir Simon Rattle

    26. No. 10. Hó, hó, krávy dó (Ho, ho, off the cows go)

      Composer: Leoš Janáček

      Performer: Magdalena Kožená, Andrew Marriner, Sir Simon Rattle

    27. No. 13. Koza bílá hrušky sbírá (The white goat’s picking up the pears)

      Composer: Leoš Janáček

      Performer: Magdalena Kožená, Andrew Marriner, Sir Simon Rattle

    28. No. 16. Vašek, pašek (Vacek, scallywag)

      Composer: Leoš Janáček

      Performer: Magdalena Kožená, Andrew Marriner, Sir Simon Rattle

    29. No. 17. Frantíku, Frantíku (Frantik, Frantik)

      Composer: Leoš Janáček

      Performer: Magdalena Kožená, Andrew Marriner, Sir Simon Rattle

    30. 4 Lieder, Op. 27, TrV 170: No. 4. Morgen (arr. for voice, violin and piano)

      Composer: Richard Strauss

      Performer: Magdalena Kožená, Wolfram Brandl, Sir Simon Rattle


Soirée captures the atmosphere of informal, domestic music-making. Czech star mezzo-soprano Magdalena Kožená offers an intimate and highly personal collection of international songs together with an outstanding group of musical friends, including Sir Simon Rattle, who makes his recording debut as a pianist. The German lied is represented by Brahms (Two Songs, Op. 91 and Five Ophelia Songs, WoO 22) and Strauss ("Morgen!"), the French chanson by Chausson (Chanson perpétuelle) and Ravel (Chansons madécasses), and 20th-century avant-gardism with Stravinsky’s Three Songs from William Shakespeare. In between these explorations, Kožená revisits her musical roots with a selection of Dvořák songs, arranged by Duncan Ward, as well as Janáček’s Nursery Rhymes.

Soirée is the second release of Magdalena Kožená’s exclusive collaboration with PENTATONE, after having presented the baroque cantatas recital album Il giardino dei sospiri in 2019.

REVIEW:

Kožená is very much at home in this repertoire. Her beautifully produced, glowing tone absorbingly catches the predominantly fleeting moods of these parlour songs. She is accompanied by a mix of seven instrumentalists, whose playing is first-rate; that includes Rattle in his recording debut as a pianist. Soirée was not recorded in the Rattle household but under studio conditions, using the renowned acoustics of Meistersaal, Berlin. The sound engineers for Pentatone provide remarkable clarity and satisfying balance on this hybrid SACD (I reviewed it on my standard player). In the booklet, Kožená gives a short foreword. The essay by James Parsons is helpful and easy to read. I am grateful for the full sung texts with English translations in the booklet.

Magdalena Kožená is at her most engaging in this exquisitely performed chamber collection of songs.

-- MusicWeb International