Weber: Complete Songs for Voice & Guitar / Cigna, Sebastiani

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Brilliant Classics
Release Date
February 23, 2018
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      WEBER, CARL MARIA VON
    • PERFORMER
      Sebastiani, Cigna
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      February 23, 2018
    • UPC
      5028421953236
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      BRI95323
    • LABEL
      Brilliant Classics
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. Die Schaferstunde, Op. 13, No. 1, J. 91

      Composer: Carl Maria von Weber

      Performer: Patrizia Cigna, Adriano Sebastiani

    2. Wiegenlied, Op. 13, No. 2, J. 96

      Composer: Carl Maria von Weber

      Performer: Patrizia Cigna, Adriano Sebastiani

    3. Maedel schau mir ins Gesicht, Op. 13, No. 3, J. 52

      Composer: Carl Maria von Weber

      Performer: Patrizia Cigna, Adriano Sebastiani

    4. An den Mond, Op. 13, No. 4, J. 72

      Composer: Carl Maria von Weber

      Performer: Patrizia Cigna, Adriano Sebastiani

    5. Die Zeit, Op. 13, No. 5, J. 97

      Composer: Carl Maria von Weber

      Performer: Patrizia Cigna, Adriano Sebastiani

    6. Liebe-Gluhen, Op. 25, J. 140

      Composer: Carl Maria von Weber

      Performer: Patrizia Cigna, Adriano Sebastiani

    7. No. 2. Über die berge mit ungestüm, J. 110

      Composer: Carl Maria von Weber

      Performer: Patrizia Cigna, Adriano Sebastiani

    8. No. 3. Lass mich schlummern, Herzlein, schweige, J. 112

      Composer: Carl Maria von Weber

      Performer: Patrizia Cigna, Adriano Sebastiani

    9. Bettlerlied, Op. 25, No. 4, J. 137

      Composer: Carl Maria von Weber

      Performer: Patrizia Cigna, Adriano Sebastiani

    10. 4 Songs, Op. 25, J. 110-113: No. 4. Umringt von mutherfülltem Heere, J. 113

      Composer: Carl Maria von Weber

      Performer: Patrizia Cigna, Dennis Chor Hang Lau, Paolo Leonardi, Adriano Sebastiani

    11. Ah, dove siete, Op. 29, No. 1, J. 108

      Composer: Carl Maria von Weber

      Performer: Patrizia Cigna, Adriano Sebastiani

    12. Ninfe se liete, Op. 29, No. 2, J. 124

      Composer: Carl Maria von Weber

      Performer: Patrizia Cigna, Adriano Sebastiani

    13. Ch'io mai vi possa, Op. 29, No. 3, J. 120

      Composer: Carl Maria von Weber

      Performer: Patrizia Cigna, Adriano Sebastiani

    14. Maienblümlein, so schön, Op. 23, No. 3, J. 117

      Composer: Carl Maria von Weber

      Performer: Patrizia Cigna, Adriano Sebastiani

    15. Bach, Echo und Kuss, Op. 71, No. 2, J. 243

      Composer: Carl Maria von Weber

      Performer: Patrizia Cigna, Adriano Sebastiani

    16. Auf die stürm'sche See hinaus, Op. 71, No. 6, J. 105

      Composer: Carl Maria von Weber

      Performer: Patrizia Cigna, Adriano Sebastiani

    17. Leise weht es, J. 223

      Composer: Carl Maria von Weber

      Performer: Patrizia Cigna, Adriano Sebastiani

    18. Sagt, woher stammt Liebeslust, J. 280

      Composer: Carl Maria von Weber

      Performer: Patrizia Cigna, Adriano Sebastiani

    19. Serenade, J. 65, "Horch, leise horch! Geliebte, horch!"

      Composer: Carl Maria von Weber

      Performer: Patrizia Cigna, Paola Cigna, Lucia Paffi, Cristina Bonaca, Adriano Sebastiani

    20. Ein Konig einst gefangen sass, Romanze, J. 195

      Composer: Carl Maria von Weber

      Performer: Patrizia Cigna, Adriano Sebastiani

    21. 4 Songs, Op. 25, J. 110-113: No. 2. Rase, Sturmwind, blase, J. 111

      Composer: Carl Maria von Weber

      Performer: Patrizia Cigna, Adriano Sebastiani


The German tradition of Lieder accompanied by guitar is overlooked but surprisingly rich. Several of the great Lieder singers have recorded Schubert songs with guitar (Christoph Pregardien and Peter Schreier principal among them), and to highly expressive effect. In many ways the change of instrument draws back these songs to their medieval heritage, to the Minnesänger (minstrels, or troubadours) who fulfilled courtly functions, or at a more humble level travelled from town to town, lute slung over the back, entertaining nobles and commoners alike with tales of love and war.

It is this tradition that Patrizia Cigna and Adriano Sebastiani have tapped into with the first complete recording of the Lieder composed by Carl Maria von Weber for which he had a guitar in mind. In fact Weber, more than most of his native contemporaries, nurtured a great affection for the instrument while it was more celebrated abroad – notably in the Classical tradition by Mauro Giuliani, and we should not forget that the guitar was the first instrument of Hector Berlioz. Weber would accompany himself like a early-Romantic troubadour in his own songs, and he scored for the guitar in several of his stage-works such as Abu Hassan.

The Op.25 Lieder bring together these two strands, written as incidental music for August von Kotzebue’s one-act play Der arme Minnesänger (The Poor Minstrel). Some of the songs here such as the Op.13 set and the Op.29 Canzonettas were written with either keyboard or guitar accompaniment in mind, for obvious, commercially attractive reasons, but the standalone Mayenblümelein was only ever intended for the guitar, as was the lovely, polyphonic Sagt, woher stammt Liebeslust which calls for two sopranos, a three-voice female choir, and a guitar accompaniment. These, like several other songs on this recording, have no rivals in the current catalogue, making this a new recording an essential acquisition for all lovers of Romantic Lieder.

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REVIEW:

The songs are utterly charming, lyrical and dramatic, on a par with Beethoven’s An die ferne Geliebte and early Schubert songs. The guitar freely and independently interacts with the melodic lines, never being a mere accompaniment.

– Records International