Wilhelm Kienzl: Four Song-Cycles

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Catalogue No: TOCC0736
EAN/UPC: 5060113447364
Release Date: 2024-08-02
Composer: Wilhelm Kienzl
Artists: Malte Müller, Werner Heinrich Schmitt

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The Austrian composer Wilhelm Kienzl (1857–1941) – also a pianist, conductor, musicologist and writer on music – enjoyed the esteem of his contemporaries particularly for his vocal music. But his star has waned over the past century, and only a handful of his 238 songs have had recent recordings. In style they range from the simple and folk-like to the dramatic and quasi-operatic; their harmonic world likewise embraces both the diatonic and chromatic, with hints of the influence of Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, Wagner and a foretaste of later composers. The four song-cycles recorded here treat the grand themes of life: love, loss, death and man’s interaction with nature.

Malte Müller, tenor
Werner Heinrich Schmitt, piano

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Aus Friedrich Rückerts ‘Liebesfrühling’, Op. 11 (1876-77) (17:08)

  1. No. 1 So wahr die Sonne scheinet (1:17)
  2. No. 2 Da ich dich einmal gefunden (2:02)
  3. No. 3 Er ist gekommen in Sturm und Regen (1:22)
  4. No. 4 Komm’, verhüllte Schöne! (6:16)
  5. No. 5 Die gute Nacht, die ich dir sage (2:01)
  6. No. 6 Ich lag von sanftem Traum umflossen* (2:01)
  7. No. 7 Mir ist, nun ich dich habe* (2:09)

Drei Albumblätter für Gesang mit Klavier, Op. 24 (1881) (6:19)

  1. No. 1 Viel Träume (1:23)
  2. No. 2 Immer leiser wird mein Schlummer (2:54)
  3. No. 3 Ich liebe dich! (2:02)

Vier Lieder für eine Singstimme mit Begleitung des Pianoforte, Op. 44(1893-95) (11:10)

  1. No. 1 Winterlied (2:31)
  2. No. 2 Abendhelle (3:40)
  3. No. 3 Wie ist doch die Erde so schön! (2:01)
  4. No. 4 Meine Lust ist leben! (2:58)

Fünf Gesänge für eine hohe Singstimme mit Klavier, Op. 82 (1909) (17:24)

  1. No. 1 Liebesorakel (2:07)
  2. No. 2 Die Sterne (4:49)
  3. No. 3 Im Rosenduft (2:49)
  4. No. 4 Genesung (4:04)
  5. No. 5 Hinauf! (3:35)

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