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Matthias Goerne, Thomas Larcher, Ensemble Resonanz – Hanns Eisler: Ernste Gesänge – Lieder with piano (2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 54:03 minutes | 947 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © harmonia mundi
From 1920s Vienna and the Berlin of the Weimar Republic to emigration to the USA, then back to Vienna after the defeat of Nazism, to end his days in East Berlin: Hanns Eisler’s life was one long exile against the backcloth of the artistic, technical, and political revolutions of the 20th century. Distance, irony, and melancholy are the aesthetic corollaries that characterise the lieder presented here, their atmosphere often evoking the despair of those dark times. The early piano sonata gained the young Eisler an admiration that has never dimmed since.
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Matthias Goerne – Schubert Revisited: Lieder Arranged for Baritone and Orchestra (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:15:08 minutes | 1,22 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Deutsche Grammophon (DG)
Matthias Goerne, one of the most high-profile Schubertians of his generation, has recorded a selection of Schubert’s songs not in their original versions with piano but in orchestral arrangements by Alexander Schmalcz, Goerne’s accompanist of many years’ standing. Goerne says about Alexander Schmalcz’s arrangements: “His creativity in adapting these songs for the orchestra is enormous, while his stylistic sensibilities and his subtle approach in deploying the right instruments at the right moment are truly astonishing.” “Schubert’s ability to empathize makes him one of the most important composers in the whole of human history. (…) He created “a perfect balance between intellectuality and the greatest naturalness. With Schubert, even the most complicated melodies and forms sound entirely natural.” (Goerne) And yet what we hear on this album is “pure Schubert”, Alexander Schmalcz insists. “I have added nothing. Sometimes I fill out the voices by doubling the octave, for example. Or I write sustained chords in the orchestra in order to simulate the sound-surfaces that are the result of the use of the sustaining pedal on the piano. But my goal is to be as original as possible.”
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Christiane Karg, Matthias Goerne, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestar and Choir & Daniel Harding – Brahms: Ein deutsches Requiem (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:10:30 minutes | 711 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © harmonia mundi
Ein deutsches Requiem, Brahms’s longest choral work, was composed during three different periods of his life but completed between 1865 and 1868, perhaps as a result of the death of the composer’s mother. It is a sacred work, but non-liturgical. It features text chosen by Brahms from the German Lutheran Bible, with passages from both the Old and New Testament. However, it does not include material about the Last Judgment, and was written primarily (according to Brahms), to comfort the living. On this recording, soloists Christiane Karg and Matthias Goerne are joined by the Swedish Radio Choir and the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, all under the direction of maestro Daniel Harding.
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Christoph Eschenbach, Matthias Goerne – Brahms: Vier ernste Gesänge (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 55:47 minutes | 915 MB | Genre: Classical
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Brahms wrote a vast number of lieder over a period of 40 years. The 200 or so he permitted to survive show just how important the genre was to his compositional process. The selection presented here illustrates the diversity of a corpus that features Heine (as with so many other composers), but also a wide variety of other poets whom he set to music with the same consummate skill as the ‘Four Serious Songs’ Op.121, the peak of his magnificent and highly individual output.
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Antoine Tamestit, Cédric Tiberghien, Matthias Goerne – Brahms: Viola Sonatas, Op. 120 – Zwei Gesänge, Op. 91 (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 56:22 minutes | 1,00 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © harmonia mundi
It’s hard to imagine how anything could have been improved upon with this Brahms recital from three of Harmonia Mundi’s most sensitive and interesting artists.
The programming alone is a work of art: the idea of pairing the viola versions of Brahms’s two autumnal Op. 120 Clarinet Sonatas inspired by Meiningen Orchestra clarinettist Richard Mühlfeld, with three further softly intimate works of his showcasing the viola’s similarities with the human voice – viola and piano arrangements of Nachtigall from the six Op. 97 Songs (extra resonant, when Brahms described Mühlfeld as the nightingale of the orchestra) and the famous Op. 49 Wiegenlied, followed by the Op. 91 Zwei Gesänge for Voice, Viola and Piano.
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