Franz Liszt: Songs for Bass Voice and Piano
Throughout Liszt’s long career, his songs – perhaps the most neglected part of his enormous output – took a radical approach to form, eschewing convention in search of a sincere musical response to each text. His free-spirited creativity meant that a single song would often call on a range of stylistic devices, among them bel canto vocal lines, unaccompanied recitative, orchestrally conceived piano textures and audacious harmonic procedures. This first recording of Liszt songs by a bass voice brings out both the power and poetry of his remarkable imagination.
Jared Schwartz, bass
Mary Dibbern, piano
Listen To This Recording:
- Weimars Volkslied (c. 1853; Cornelius)*
- Pace non trovo (1843–44, rev. 1864;
Petrarch, Sonnet No. 104) - Des Tages laute Stimmen schweigen (1880; von Saar)
- J’ai perdu ma force et ma vie (1872; de Musset)
- Jeanne d’Arc au bucher (c. 1840–45; Dumas père)
- Sei still (1877; von Schorn)
- Le Juif errant (1848; de Béranger)
- Über allen Gipfeln ist Ruh’ (1849; Goethe)
- O lieb, solang du lieben kannst! (c. 1842–50; Freiligrath)
- Du bist wie eine Blume (1843–late 1850s; Heine)
- Go not, happy day (1879; Tennyson)
- Weimars Toten — Dithyrambe (1849; von Schober)
*FIRST RECORDING
FIRST RECORDINGS BY A BASS VOICE
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