Olena Tokar, Stephan Genz, Berner Symphonieorchester & Graziella Contratto – NACHHALL – Othmar Schoeck Orchesterlieder (2024) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Olena Tokar, Stephan Genz, Berner Symphonieorchester & Graziella Contratto – NACHHALL – Othmar Schoeck Orchesterlieder (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:02:43 minutes | 612 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © iMD-Schweizer Fonogramm

Songs from the teenage years of the great Swiss late Romantic composer Othmar Schoeck (1886-1957) from op. 4 and 17 are performed as world premiere recordings in arrangements by conductor Graziella Contratto, interpreted by soprano Olena Tokar. In the late cycle Nachhall op. 70, the Bern Symphony Orchestra once again accompanies song specialist Stephan Genz.

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Stephan Genz, Michel Dalberto – Schubert: Schwanengesang & Klavierstücke, D. 946 (2017) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Stephan Genz, Michel Dalberto – Schubert: Schwanengesang & Klavierstücke, D. 946 (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:06:26 minutes | 990 MB | Genre: Classical, Romantic Era, Art Song
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Aparté

The baritone Stephan Genz and the pianist Michel Dalberto gathered again around the Lied. After Schumann, Brahms and Wolf, they join Schubert to record his Swansong. That posthumous cycle, with its moving accents and mysterious atmosphere, was made up by an editor in want of a commercial success. However this collection of lieder shows how skilled Schubert was to make a real author of a minor one. Schubert was also the first composer to set Heine’s poetry to music, well before Schumann.

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