Thomas Fortmann: Lieder Zyklen

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Metier
Release Date
July 17, 2026
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Thomas Fortmann
    • PERFORMER
      Tino Brutsch, Trio Accademia Amiata, Nuria Richner, Malwina Sosnowski, Domitille Jordan, Talvi Hunt
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      July 17, 2026
    • UPC
      809730721427
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      MEX77214
    • LABEL
      Metier
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      2
    • GENRE
      Choral
    Works ⌄

    1. Am ende des flurs, 4 Stock

      Composer: Thomas Fortmann

      Ensemble: Accademia Amiata

      Performer: Tino Brutsch

    2. No. 1. Doch ein schatten fällt

      Composer: Thomas Fortmann

      Performer: Nuria Richner, Malwina Sosnowski, Domitille Jordan, Talvi Hunt

    3. No. 2. Wüsste ich

      Composer: Thomas Fortmann

      Performer: Nuria Richner, Malwina Sosnowski, Domitille Jordan, Talvi Hunt

    4. No. 3. Ein fetzen schuld

      Composer: Thomas Fortmann

      Performer: Nuria Richner, Malwina Sosnowski, Domitille Jordan, Talvi Hunt

    5. No. 4. Seltsame kreise

      Composer: Thomas Fortmann

      Performer: Nuria Richner, Malwina Sosnowski, Domitille Jordan, Talvi Hunt

    6. No. 5. Und psyche

      Composer: Thomas Fortmann

      Performer: Nuria Richner, Malwina Sosnowski, Domitille Jordan, Talvi Hunt

    7. No. 1. So fing es an

      Composer: Thomas Fortmann

      Performer: Nuria Richner, Malwina Sosnowski, Domitille Jordan, Talvi Hunt

    8. No. 2. Kiste zwei

      Composer: Thomas Fortmann

      Performer: Nuria Richner, Malwina Sosnowski, Domitille Jordan, Talvi Hunt

    9. No. 3. Vom Römer, Griechen und Etrusker

      Composer: Thomas Fortmann

      Performer: Nuria Richner, Malwina Sosnowski, Domitille Jordan, Talvi Hunt

    10. No. 4. Heute morgen gestern

      Composer: Thomas Fortmann

      Performer: Nuria Richner, Malwina Sosnowski, Domitille Jordan, Talvi Hunt

    11. No. 5. Der zerbrochene krug

      Composer: Thomas Fortmann

      Performer: Nuria Richner, Malwina Sosnowski, Domitille Jordan, Talvi Hunt

    12. No. 6. Die ungeschichte

      Composer: Thomas Fortmann

      Performer: Nuria Richner, Malwina Sosnowski, Domitille Jordan, Talvi Hunt

    13. No. 7. Ein schwarzes loch

      Composer: Thomas Fortmann

      Performer: Nuria Richner, Malwina Sosnowski, Domitille Jordan, Talvi Hunt

    14. No. 8. Mir lieb

      Composer: Thomas Fortmann

      Performer: Nuria Richner, Malwina Sosnowski, Domitille Jordan, Talvi Hunt

    15. No. 1. Es sprach Prolitheus

      Composer: Thomas Fortmann

      Ensemble: Accademia Amiata

      Performer: Tino Brutsch

    16. No. 2. Herbst auf der Lenzburg

      Composer: Thomas Fortmann

      Ensemble: Accademia Amiata

      Performer: Tino Brutsch

    17. No. 3. Der frühe vogel

      Composer: Thomas Fortmann

      Ensemble: Accademia Amiata

      Performer: Tino Brutsch

    18. No. 4. Nachruf auf einen vorwurf

      Composer: Thomas Fortmann

      Ensemble: Accademia Amiata

      Performer: Tino Brutsch

    19. No. 5. Massaker

      Composer: Thomas Fortmann

      Ensemble: Accademia Amiata

      Performer: Tino Brutsch

    20. No. 1. Erste abteilung

      Composer: Thomas Fortmann

      Ensemble: Amar Quartet

      Performer: Florian Prey

    21. No. 2. Zweite abteilung

      Composer: Thomas Fortmann

      Ensemble: Amar Quartet

      Performer: Florian Prey

    22. No. 1. Gute Nacht

      Composer: Franz Schubert

      Ensemble: Amar Quartet

      Performer: Florian Prey

    23. No. 2. Die Wetterfahne

      Composer: Franz Schubert

      Ensemble: Amar Quartet

      Performer: Florian Prey

    24. No. 3. Gefror'ne Tränen

      Composer: Franz Schubert

      Ensemble: Amar Quartet

      Performer: Florian Prey

    25. No. 4. Erstarrung

      Composer: Franz Schubert

      Ensemble: Amar Quartet

      Performer: Florian Prey

    26. No. 5. Der Lindenbaum

      Composer: Franz Schubert

      Ensemble: Amar Quartet

      Performer: Florian Prey

    27. No. 6. Wasserflut

      Composer: Franz Schubert

      Ensemble: Amar Quartet

      Performer: Florian Prey

    28. No. 7. Auf dem Flusse

      Composer: Franz Schubert

      Ensemble: Amar Quartet

      Performer: Florian Prey

    29. No. 8. Rückblick

      Composer: Franz Schubert

      Ensemble: Amar Quartet

      Performer: Florian Prey

    30. No. 9. Irrlicht

      Composer: Franz Schubert

      Ensemble: Amar Quartet

      Performer: Florian Prey

    31. No. 10. Rast

      Composer: Franz Schubert

      Ensemble: Amar Quartet

      Performer: Florian Prey

    32. No. 11. Frühlingstraum

      Composer: Franz Schubert

      Ensemble: Amar Quartet

      Performer: Florian Prey

    33. No. 12. Einsamkeit

      Composer: Franz Schubert

      Ensemble: Amar Quartet

      Performer: Florian Prey

    34. No. 13. Die Post

      Composer: Franz Schubert

      Ensemble: Amar Quartet

      Performer: Florian Prey

    35. No. 14. Der greise Kopf

      Composer: Franz Schubert

      Ensemble: Amar Quartet

      Performer: Florian Prey

    36. No. 15. Die Krähe

      Composer: Franz Schubert

      Ensemble: Amar Quartet

      Performer: Florian Prey

    37. No. 16. Letzte Hoffnung

      Composer: Franz Schubert

      Ensemble: Amar Quartet

      Performer: Florian Prey

    38. No. 17. Im Dorfe

      Composer: Franz Schubert

      Ensemble: Amar Quartet

      Performer: Florian Prey

    39. No. 18. Der stürmische Morgen

      Composer: Franz Schubert

      Ensemble: Amar Quartet

      Performer: Florian Prey

    40. No. 19. Täuschung

      Composer: Franz Schubert

      Ensemble: Amar Quartet

      Performer: Florian Prey

    41. No. 20. Der Wegweiser

      Composer: Franz Schubert

      Ensemble: Amar Quartet

      Performer: Florian Prey

    42. No. 21. Das Wirtshaus

      Composer: Franz Schubert

      Ensemble: Amar Quartet

      Performer: Florian Prey

    43. No. 22. Mut

      Composer: Franz Schubert

      Ensemble: Amar Quartet

      Performer: Florian Prey

    44. No. 23. Die Nebensonnen

      Composer: Franz Schubert

      Ensemble: Amar Quartet

      Performer: Florian Prey

    45. No. 24. Der Leiermann

      Composer: Franz Schubert

      Ensemble: Amar Quartet

      Performer: Florian Prey


In July 2026 Metier is delighted to present Lieder Zyklen (Song Cycles) by contemporary Swiss composer Thomas Fortmann. Featuring settings for voice and piano trio of poetry and text by writers including Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Christian Haller, Prolitheus Pfenninger and Fortmann himself, these works demonstrate the composer's eclectic and unusual style that combines postmodern music, serial techniques, rock and jazz. The Swiss tenor Tino Bru¨tsch and Swiss soprano Nuria Richner perform alongside the Trio Accademia Amiata and a Trio of soloists Malwina Sosnowski, Donitille Jordan and Talvi Hunt. The album also includes Fortmann's Hommage to Schubert's Winterreise and his arrangement of this iconic song cycle for baritone and string quartet is given a powerful performance by Florian Prey, son of the great German baritone Hermann Prey alongside the Amar Quartet. Fortmann's setting of the intriguing poem Am Ende des Flurs (At the end of the hallway, 4th floor) by his close friend, Swiss Literary Prize Winner Christian Haller, is followed by The Hofmannsthal Verses. Composed in his early twenties as striking rock songs to poetry by Hugo von Hofmannsthal, who became the librettist to Richard Strauss, the lyrics are a collage of Hofmannsthal poems Fortmann found moving for their linguistic power and their social and political statements. Geschichten (Histories) are concise, short songs that intertwine the timeline of a love relationship with that of human history and dimensions of the cosmos. The Prolitheus Songs are based on e-mails from the extraordinary visual artist Prolitheus Pfenninger, complex and often laden with double meanings and wordplays. Schubert was the favourite composer of Fortmann's mother, a well-known soprano - she often sang his songs to him and his sisters, and the music's sensitive emotions resonate deeply. The Hommage an Schubert's Winterreise, Der Su¨sse Ton (the Sweet Tone) is Fortmann's setting of a text collage from Joachim Ringelnatz who often referred to Schubert in his poetry, passages of text from Eduard von Bauernfeld on Schubert's funeral and excerpts from poetry of Schubert himself. The Homage opens with a typical rock riff, reminiscent of how Schubert drew on popular rhythms of his time, and the work refers to the songs of Winterreise in various ways, some of them hidden in contrapuntal forms. Despite the different compositional techniques throughout Fortmann shows his musical-emotional kinship with Schubert. Recreating Winterreise for voice and string quartet was a delicate task of reassembling the work while trying to stay as faithful as possible to the original. Fortmann sought to recapture the mood of the songs, their simplicity and touching directness, and to achieve this with a string quartet some modifications were necessary including extra notes that do not appear in Schubert's original. In the 1970s Thomas Fortmann had a very successful career as a writer of rock music - and also as an international golfing star! At age 26 he abandoned this career to study formal composition which laid the foundation for an extensive body of work that includes chamber music, operas and musical theatre, orchestral, choral, and organ works, as well as several song cycles. Fortmann's distinctly personal style often unites different - and sometimes opposing - impulses of modern music. Lieder Zyklen marks the sixth release of his music on the Metier label.