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Trennung - Songs of Separation / Sampson, Bezuidenhout
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Trennung - Songs of Separation / Sampson, Bezuidenhout

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Composer
Friedrich Gottlob Fleischer, Joseph Haydn, August Bernhard Valentin Herbing, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Artist
Carolyn Sampson, Kristian Bezuidenhout
Format
SACD
Label
BIS
Released
Mar 04, 2022
Catalog #
BIS-2623
UPC
7318599926230

About

In the early 19th century, while Haydn and Mozart remained revered, many of their once admired contemporaries quickly fell into oblivion and with them much delightful, finely crafted music. In a recital centered on songs of parting, Carolyn Sampson and Kristian Bezuidenhout seek to make some amends to this. They open with August Bernhard Valentin Herbing's Montan und Lalage, a miniature opera for one singer, with the keyboard-as-orchestra providing the scenery and stage action. Giving Bezuidenhout's fortepiano the recognition it deserves, the program also includes no less than two songs dedicated to the instrument, by composers we rarely hear of today: Friedrich Gottlob Fleischer and Christian Michael Wolff. But even though Mozart and Haydn are still household names, it isn’t on account of their solo songs, which makes the performers’ decision to also throw light on their less familiar work a welcome one. The program features four songs each by them, including Mozart’s Lied der Trennung (Song of Parting), which has lent its name to the entire program, as well as Haydn’s Arianna a Naxos, a dramatic cantata in which the Cretan princess Ariadne expresses her love of the Greek hero Theseus … and her agony when he sails off, leaving her alone on the island of Naxos.

REVIEW:

This a program cleverly designed, as they so often are today. The theme is separation, but the opening extensive song is by August Bernhard Valentin Herbing, a long narrative to be balanced by Joseph Haydn’s Arianna a Naxos at the other end. In between are other songs by composers both familiar and not: 4 by Mozart, 3 other ones by Haydn, interspersed with 2 by Friedrich Gottlob Fleischer and one by Christian Michael Wolff. It should be noted that the Haydn songs, apart from Arianna, aren’t from his late English settings, but are German-language pieces written a couple of decades earlier. Sampson is a “known quantity”, a pure and well-controlled soprano whose home is more or less exactly where she is here: late 18th- and early 19th Century lieder. Bezuidenhout (on loan to BIS from Harmonia Mundi) is a firstclass fortepianist, quite capable of pushing his instrument past its reasonable limits, as he does at the end of Arianna.

-- American Record Guide

Tracklist 15 tracks

  1. 1 Musikalischer Versuch: No. 3. Montan und Lalage 12:15
    Track
    1
    Title
    Musikalischer Versuch: No. 3. Montan und Lalage
    Duration
    12:15
    Composer
    August Bernhard Valentin Herbing
    Performer
    Carolyn Sampson, Kristian Bezuidenhout
  2. 2 Das Lied der Trennung, K. 519 06:27
    Track
    2
    Title
    Das Lied der Trennung, K. 519
    Duration
    06:27
    Composer
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Performer
    Carolyn Sampson, Kristian Bezuidenhout
  3. 3 An den Schlaf 04:17
    Track
    3
    Title
    An den Schlaf
    Duration
    04:17
    Composer
    Friedrich Gottlob Fleischer
    Performer
    Carolyn Sampson, Kristian Bezuidenhout
  4. 4 An Chloe, K. 524 02:28
    Track
    4
    Title
    An Chloe, K. 524
    Duration
    02:28
    Composer
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Performer
    Carolyn Sampson, Kristian Bezuidenhout
  5. 5 Als Luise die Briefe, K. 520 01:39
    Track
    5
    Title
    Als Luise die Briefe, K. 520
    Duration
    01:39
    Composer
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Performer
    Carolyn Sampson, Kristian Bezuidenhout
  6. 6 Abendempfindung, K. 523 04:35
    Track
    6
    Title
    Abendempfindung, K. 523
    Duration
    04:35
    Composer
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Performer
    Carolyn Sampson, Kristian Bezuidenhout
  7. 7 An das Clavier 06:37
    Track
    7
    Title
    An das Clavier
    Duration
    06:37
    Composer
    Christian Michael Wolff
    Performer
    Carolyn Sampson, Kristian Bezuidenhout
  8. 8 Das Clavier 02:48
    Track
    8
    Title
    Das Clavier
    Duration
    02:48
    Composer
    Friedrich Gottlob Fleischer
    Performer
    Carolyn Sampson, Kristian Bezuidenhout
  9. 9 12 Lieder für das Clavier, Book 1: No. 5. Die Verlassene, Hob.XXVIa:5 04:34
    Track
    9
    Title
    12 Lieder für das Clavier, Book 1: No. 5. Die Verlassene, Hob.XXVIa:5
    Duration
    04:34
    Composer
    Franz Joseph Haydn
    Performer
    Carolyn Sampson, Kristian Bezuidenhout
  10. 10 Antwort auf die Frage eines Mädchens, Hob.XXVIa:46 03:36
    Track
    10
    Title
    Antwort auf die Frage eines Mädchens, Hob.XXVIa:46
    Duration
    03:36
    Composer
    Franz Joseph Haydn
    Performer
    Carolyn Sampson, Kristian Bezuidenhout
  11. 11 12 Lieder für das Clavier, Book 2: No. 21. Das Leben ist ein Traum, Hob.XXVIa:21 03:29
    Track
    11
    Title
    12 Lieder für das Clavier, Book 2: No. 21. Das Leben ist ein Traum, Hob.XXVIa:21
    Duration
    03:29
    Composer
    Franz Joseph Haydn
    Performer
    Carolyn Sampson, Kristian Bezuidenhout
  12. 12 Recitative: Teseo mio ben, ove sei tu? 06:08
    Track
    12
    Title
    Recitative: Teseo mio ben, ove sei tu?
    Duration
    06:08
    Composer
    Franz Joseph Haydn
    Performer
    Carolyn Sampson, Kristian Bezuidenhout
  13. 13 Aria: Dove sei, mio bel tesoro? 04:25
    Track
    13
    Title
    Aria: Dove sei, mio bel tesoro?
    Duration
    04:25
    Composer
    Franz Joseph Haydn
    Performer
    Carolyn Sampson, Kristian Bezuidenhout
  14. 14 Recitative: Ma, a chi parlo? (But, to whom do I speak?) 04:02
    Track
    14
    Title
    Recitative: Ma, a chi parlo? (But, to whom do I speak?)
    Duration
    04:02
    Composer
    Franz Joseph Haydn
    Performer
    Carolyn Sampson, Kristian Bezuidenhout
  15. 15 Aria: Ah! che morir vorrei 03:50
    Track
    15
    Title
    Aria: Ah! che morir vorrei
    Duration
    03:50
    Composer
    Franz Joseph Haydn
    Performer
    Carolyn Sampson, Kristian Bezuidenhout