Sophie Karthäuser, Eugene Asti – Wolf: Kennst du das Land (2016) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Sophie Karthäuser, Eugene Asti – Wolf: Kennst du das Land (2016)
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The brief period between 1888 and 1897, between the great cycles devoted to single poets and the songs on sonnets of Michelangelo, saw Wolf at the zenith of his creativity. That period saw the genesis of the songs later published in anthologies after Mörike, Eichendorff and Goethe. Although even the early songs before 1888 reveal no arbitrariness in the choice of texts, it is this concentration on individual literary figures that characterises the highpoint of Wolf s output. Their names resound in the ears of all who love German Romantic literature and are familiar with its transposition into the world of the lied. While Schubert often mined an unexpected vein of poetry in lesser authors, his distant successor Hugo Wolf drank at the source of these giants. Wolf was undoubtedly a virtuoso in the art of making audible the huge dimension of what remains unsaid, though implied. Perhaps he had only one true peer: his former Viennese fellow student Gustav Mahler. Belgian soprano Sophie Karthäuser studied with Noelle Barker at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. She is now in great demand, especially as a Mozart singer. She sang her first Pamina (Die Zauberflöte) under René Jacobs and her first Susanna (Le nozze di Figaro) under William Christie. Since winning the Audience Prize at the Wigmore Hall Song Contest she has developed an acclaimed career as a recitalist, enjoying a particularly close artistic partnership with the distinguished American pianist Eugene Asti.

Tracklist:
01. Sophie Karthäuser, Eugene Asti – Goethe Lieder, Mignon I: Heiß mich nicht reden (03:17)
02. Sophie Karthäuser, Eugene Asti – Goethe Lieder, Mignon II: Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt, weiß , was ich leide! (01:49)
03. Sophie Karthäuser, Eugene Asti – Goethe Lieder, Mignon III: So lasst mich scheinen, bis ich werde (03:16)
04. Sophie Karthäuser, Eugene Asti – 6 Lieder für eine Frauenstimme: 6. Mausefallensprüchlein (01:07)
05. Sophie Karthäuser, Eugene Asti – Mörike-Lieder, Heft I: 7. Das verlassene Mägdelein (03:00)
06. Sophie Karthäuser, Eugene Asti – Mörike Lieder, Heft IV: 45. Nixe Binsefuß (02:14)
07. Sophie Karthäuser, Eugene Asti – Goethe-Lieder: 24. Blumengruß (01:16)
08. Sophie Karthäuser, Eugene Asti – Goethe-Lieder: 28. Frühling über’s Jahr (01:47)
09. Sophie Karthäuser, Eugene Asti – Goethe-Lieder: 29. Anakreons Grab (02:29)
10. Sophie Karthäuser, Eugene Asti – Goethe Lieder, Mignon: Kennst du das Land, wo die Zitronen blühn? (06:02)
11. Sophie Karthäuser, Eugene Asti – Mörike Lieder, Heft II: 1. Im Frühling (04:27)
12. Sophie Karthäuser, Eugene Asti – Mörike Lieder, Heft IV: 51. Bei einer Trauung (01:56)
13. Sophie Karthäuser, Eugene Asti – Mörike Lieder, Heft II: 14. Agnes (03:07)
14. Sophie Karthäuser, Eugene Asti – Mörike Lieder, Heft II: 16. Elfenlied (01:52)
15. Sophie Karthäuser, Eugene Asti – Goethe-Lieder: 26. Die spröde (01:53)
16. Sophie Karthäuser, Eugene Asti – Goethe-Lieder: 27. Die Bekehrte (02:38)
17. Sophie Karthäuser, Eugene Asti – Verschwiegene Liebe (02:09)
18. Sophie Karthäuser, Eugene Asti – Mörike-Lieder, Heft I: 2. Der Knabe und das Immlein (02:55)
19. Sophie Karthäuser, Eugene Asti – Mörike-Lieder, Heft I: 3. Ein Stündlein wohl vor Tag (01:48)
20. Sophie Karthäuser, Eugene Asti – Mörike-Lieder, Heft I: 6. Er ist’s (01:23)
21. Sophie Karthäuser, Eugene Asti – Mörike-Lieder, Heft I: 11. An eine Äolsharfe (05:31)
22. Sophie Karthäuser, Eugene Asti – Mörike Lieder, Heft IV: 42. Erstes Liebeslied eines Mädchens (01:24)
23. Sophie Karthäuser, Eugene Asti – 6 Lieder für eine Frauenstimme: 4. Wiegenlied im Sommer (02:50)

Personnel:
Sophie Karthäuser, soprano
Eugene Asti, piano

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