Bernhard Sekles: Lieder – Aus dem Schi-King and other Songs
Bernhard Sekles (1872–1934) was one of the leading figures in German music in the first decades of the twentieth century, prominent as composer, educator and administrator. In 1928, as director of the Hoch Conservatorium in Frankfurt, he established the first academic programme in jazz studies, an act of courage and conviction that unleashed furious attacks from the Nazi press. His own late-Romantic music, banned during the Third Reich, has been virtually forgotten, although he composed in all major genres, including opera, orchestral works and chamber music. This first-ever album of his Lieder includes a major song-cycle, the freewheeling Aus dem Schi-King, based on ancient Chinese poetry in adaptations by Friedrich Rückert, its moods ranging from the heroic to the comic.
Malte Müller, tenor
Werner Heinrich Schmitt, piano
Mit Deutschem Kommentar
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- No. 1 Der Einzige Audio Player
- No. 2 Mädchenlied Audio Player
- No. 3 Über’m Flusse drüben (Im Volkston) Audio Player
- No. 4 Im Mondschein Audio Player
- No. 5 Im Morgendämmer Audio Player
- No. 6 Der Grenzwächter Audio Player
- No. 7 Vergebliche Beschwörung Audio Player
- No. 8 Trauer um Pe-Hi Audio Player
- No. 9 Der Unrechte Audio Player
- No. 10 Jägerliebchen Audio Player
- No. 11 Begegnung Audio Player
- No. 12 Das Frühlingsfest Audio Player
- No. 13 Bei Regenwetter Audio Player
- No. 14 Das schwarze Hofmannskleid Audio Player
- No. 15 Die Folgsame Audio Player
- No. 16 Wasserstille Audio Player
- No. 17 Das Ahnenfest Audio Player
- No. 18 Kriegslied der Fürstin
- No. 3 Treue Liebe Audio Player
- No. 6 Abschied
- No. 6 Schelmenweise Audio Player
- No. 7 Ich liebe dich! Audio Player
- No. 1 Vom Scheiden Audio Player
- No. 4 Die Versöhnung
Aus dem Schi-King, Op. 15 (publ. 1907)
Audio PlayerLiebeslieder nach slawischen und romanischen Dichtungen, Op. 13 (publ. 1905)
Audio PlayerLieder-Kreis, Op. 8 (publ. 1901)
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