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Visions Of Childhood / April Fredrick, Kenneth Woods, English Symphony Orchestra
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Visions Of Childhood / April Fredrick, Kenneth Woods, English Symphony Orchestra

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Composer
HUMPERDINCK MAHLER SCHUBERT
Artist
Fredrick, Woods
Format
CD
Label
Nimbus
Released
Feb 05, 2021
Catalog #
NI6408
UPC
0710357640827

About

Kenneth Woods writes: “Given that this programme was to be an exploration of childhood, the obvious place to start is with birth. Richard Wagner wrote his Siegfried Idyll as a birthday present for his wife, Cosima, just after the birth of their son, Siegfried. Nowhere else in music is there so tender an evocation of those fragile, precious and fraught first days and weeks of life. Engelbert Humperdinck’s great children’s opera, Hänsel und Gretel, a quasi-Wagnerian setting of the classic Brothers Grimm fairy tale, tells the story of two children in peril… “Die Forelle” (“The Trout”) is one of Schubert’s simplest and most popular songs, composed in 1817,when Schubert was just 20, to words by Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart… Gustav Mahler’s 100-minute Third symphony and his Fourth grew out of the musical material in the short, beautiful song which forms the final movement of the Fourth Symphony, “Das himmlische Leben” (“The Heavenly Life,”), and which concludes these Visions of Childhood. First, however, we hear his song “The Earthly Life” (“Das irdische Leben”) which forms a sort of bleak mirror image to that song. As with the Humperdinck, I have essentially stuck as closely as possible to Mahler’s own orchestration, which is a model of clarity and economy, but also full of extreme, even grotesque, colors. Finally, we come to another combination of song and variations by Schubert, both known as “Der Todund das Mädchen” (“Death and the Maiden”). The song is based on a poem by Matthias Claudius and was written in 1817, the same year as “The Trout.” It has only two verses – one in which the Maiden pleads with Death to pass her by, and one in which Death assures her that he is a friend.

Tracklist 11 tracks

  1. 1 Symphony No. 4 in G major: I. Bedächtig, nicht eilen (arr. E. Stein for chamber orchestra) (excerpt) 00:15
    Track
    1
    Title
    Symphony No. 4 in G major: I. Bedächtig, nicht eilen (arr. E. Stein for chamber orchestra) (excerpt)
    Duration
    00:15
    Composer
    Gustav Mahler
    Ensemble
    English Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Kenneth Woods
  2. 2 Siegfried Idyll (arr. K. Woods for chamber orchestra) 18:20
    Track
    2
    Title
    Siegfried Idyll (arr. K. Woods for chamber orchestra)
    Duration
    18:20
    Composer
    Richard Wagner
    Ensemble
    English Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Kenneth Woods
  3. 3 Hänsel und Gretel, Act II: Der kleine Sandmann bin ich, st! - Abends, will ich schlafen gehn (Evening Prayers) (arr. K. Woods for voice and chamber orchestra) 04:57
    Track
    3
    Title
    Hänsel und Gretel, Act II: Der kleine Sandmann bin ich, st! - Abends, will ich schlafen gehn (Evening Prayers) (arr. K. Woods for voice and chamber orchestra)
    Duration
    04:57
    Composer
    Engelbert Humperdinck
    Performer
    April Fredrick
    Ensemble
    English Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Kenneth Woods
  4. 4 Die Forelle, D. 550 (arr. K. Woods for voice and chamber orchestra) 05:45
    Track
    4
    Title
    Die Forelle, D. 550 (arr. K. Woods for voice and chamber orchestra)
    Duration
    05:45
    Composer
    Franz Schubert
    Performer
    April Fredrick
    Ensemble
    English Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Kenneth Woods
  5. 5 Des Knaben Wunderhorn: No. 5. Das irdische Leben (arr. K. Woods for voice and chamber orchestra) 03:10
    Track
    5
    Title
    Des Knaben Wunderhorn: No. 5. Das irdische Leben (arr. K. Woods for voice and chamber orchestra)
    Duration
    03:10
    Composer
    Gustav Mahler
    Performer
    April Fredrick
    Ensemble
    English Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Kenneth Woods
  6. 6 Der Tod und das Mädchen, Op. 7, No. 3, D. 531 (arr. K. Woods for voice and chamber orchestra) 15:33
    Track
    6
    Title
    Der Tod und das Mädchen, Op. 7, No. 3, D. 531 (arr. K. Woods for voice and chamber orchestra)
    Duration
    15:33
    Composer
    Franz Schubert
    Performer
    April Fredrick
    Ensemble
    English Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Kenneth Woods
  7. 7 Symphony No. 4 in G Major: IV. Sehr behaglich 09:11
    Track
    7
    Title
    Symphony No. 4 in G Major: IV. Sehr behaglich
    Duration
    09:11
    Composer
    Gustav Mahler
    Performer
    April Fredrick
    Ensemble
    English Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Kenneth Woods
  8. 8 No. 1. Frühling (Spring) 04:05
    Track
    8
    Title
    No. 1. Frühling (Spring)
    Duration
    04:05
    Composer
    Richard Strauss
    Performer
    April Fredrick
    Ensemble
    English Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Kenneth Woods
  9. 9 No. 2. September 04:43
    Track
    9
    Title
    No. 2. September
    Duration
    04:43
    Composer
    Richard Strauss
    Performer
    April Fredrick
    Ensemble
    English Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Kenneth Woods
  10. 10 No. 3. Beim Schlafengehen (At Bedtime) 05:44
    Track
    10
    Title
    No. 3. Beim Schlafengehen (At Bedtime)
    Duration
    05:44
    Composer
    Richard Strauss
    Performer
    April Fredrick
    Ensemble
    English Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Kenneth Woods
  11. 11 No. 4. Im Abendrot (In the Evening Glow) 07:52
    Track
    11
    Title
    No. 4. Im Abendrot (In the Evening Glow)
    Duration
    07:52
    Composer
    Richard Strauss
    Performer
    April Fredrick
    Ensemble
    English Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Kenneth Woods