Starter Packs

Complete your collection with these curated titles, grouped at a special discount.

Shop Now
Sony Masterworks

Strauss: Four Last Songs; Wagner, Berg / Eaglen, Et Al

$11.98 Only 1 left

Details

Composer
EAGLEN, JANE
Artist
Jane Eaglen
Format
CD
Label
Sony Masterworks
Released
Mar 21, 2000
Catalog #
SK61720
UPC
074646172025

About

Real Wagnerian sopranos are rare, but Jane Eaglen has the deep, rich soprano, as well as the stamina it takes, to be a Brünnhilde. Here she is, off the rock and away from the opera stage, presented in a veritable iron-woman triathlon of late romantic song cycles, all of which tax the human voice to its limits, merely asking it to float and soar above a large orchestra and still sound angelic. While Richard Strauss's 'Four Last Songs' is the ultimate example, Wagner's own 'Wesendonk Lieder' is the prototype for this subgenre of evoked sunsets and dreams: indeed, the desire to make time and season stand still in a nether world between sleep, dreaming and waking is common to nearly every song in all three cycles. The 'Seven Early Songs' of Alban Berg makes a perfect discmate, especially for the Strauss, as it similarly stretches tonality in every beautiful direction without attempting to leave it. These are songs of impossible longing, and they require nearly impossible musicianship to carry off, but Eaglen and conductor Donald Runnicles, with flowing tempos and carefully judged balances, bring you into the reverie and don't let go.

Tracklist 16 tracks

  1. 1 No. 1. Der Engel (The Angel) 03:20
    Track
    1
    Title
    No. 1. Der Engel (The Angel)
    Duration
    03:20
    Composer
    Richard Wagner
    Performer
    Jane Eaglen
    Ensemble
    London Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Donald Runnicles
  2. 2 No. 2. Stehe still (Stand Still) 03:42
    Track
    2
    Title
    No. 2. Stehe still (Stand Still)
    Duration
    03:42
    Composer
    Richard Wagner
    Performer
    Jane Eaglen
    Ensemble
    London Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Donald Runnicles
  3. 3 No. 3. Im Treibhaus (In the Hothouse) 06:39
    Track
    3
    Title
    No. 3. Im Treibhaus (In the Hothouse)
    Duration
    06:39
    Composer
    Richard Wagner
    Performer
    Jane Eaglen
    Ensemble
    London Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Donald Runnicles
  4. 4 No. 4. Schmerzen (Pain) 02:26
    Track
    4
    Title
    No. 4. Schmerzen (Pain)
    Duration
    02:26
    Composer
    Richard Wagner
    Performer
    Jane Eaglen
    Ensemble
    London Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Donald Runnicles
  5. 5 No. 5. Traume (Dreams) 04:38
    Track
    5
    Title
    No. 5. Traume (Dreams)
    Duration
    04:38
    Composer
    Richard Wagner
    Performer
    Jane Eaglen
    Ensemble
    London Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Donald Runnicles
  6. 6 No. 1. Nacht 04:07
    Track
    6
    Title
    No. 1. Nacht
    Duration
    04:07
    Composer
    Alban Berg
    Performer
    Jane Eaglen
    Ensemble
    London Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Donald Runnicles
  7. 7 No. 2. Schilflied 02:27
    Track
    7
    Title
    No. 2. Schilflied
    Duration
    02:27
    Composer
    Alban Berg
    Performer
    Jane Eaglen
    Ensemble
    London Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Donald Runnicles
  8. 8 No. 3. Die Nachtigall 02:17
    Track
    8
    Title
    No. 3. Die Nachtigall
    Duration
    02:17
    Composer
    Alban Berg
    Performer
    Jane Eaglen
    Ensemble
    London Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Donald Runnicles
  9. 9 No. 4. Traumgekront 02:36
    Track
    9
    Title
    No. 4. Traumgekront
    Duration
    02:36
    Composer
    Alban Berg
    Performer
    Jane Eaglen
    Ensemble
    London Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Donald Runnicles
  10. 10 No. 5. Im Zimmer 01:22
    Track
    10
    Title
    No. 5. Im Zimmer
    Duration
    01:22
    Composer
    Alban Berg
    Performer
    Jane Eaglen
    Ensemble
    London Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Donald Runnicles
  11. 11 No. 6. Liebesode 01:44
    Track
    11
    Title
    No. 6. Liebesode
    Duration
    01:44
    Composer
    Alban Berg
    Performer
    Jane Eaglen
    Ensemble
    London Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Donald Runnicles
  12. 12 No. 7. Sommertage 01:49
    Track
    12
    Title
    No. 7. Sommertage
    Duration
    01:49
    Composer
    Alban Berg
    Performer
    Jane Eaglen
    Ensemble
    London Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Donald Runnicles
  13. 13 No. 1. Frühling (Spring) 03:23
    Track
    13
    Title
    No. 1. Frühling (Spring)
    Duration
    03:23
    Composer
    Richard Strauss
    Performer
    Jane Eaglen, Janice Graham
    Ensemble
    London Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Donald Runnicles
  14. 14 No. 2. September 04:42
    Track
    14
    Title
    No. 2. September
    Duration
    04:42
    Composer
    Richard Strauss
    Performer
    Jane Eaglen, Janice Graham
    Ensemble
    London Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Donald Runnicles
  15. 15 No. 3. Beim Schlafengehen (At Bedtime) 05:19
    Track
    15
    Title
    No. 3. Beim Schlafengehen (At Bedtime)
    Duration
    05:19
    Composer
    Richard Strauss
    Performer
    Jane Eaglen, Janice Graham
    Ensemble
    London Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Donald Runnicles
  16. 16 No. 4. Im Abendrot (In the Evening Glow) 07:55
    Track
    16
    Title
    No. 4. Im Abendrot (In the Evening Glow)
    Duration
    07:55
    Composer
    Richard Strauss
    Performer
    Jane Eaglen, Janice Graham
    Ensemble
    London Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Donald Runnicles