Beethoven: Lieder & Bagatellen

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LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Lieder & Bagatellen
Werner Güra (tenor) Christoph Berner (fortepiano J. B. Streicher, 1847)

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Release Date: Thursday 10 September 2015

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Beethoven the song composer. The giant of the symphony and the sonata has somewhat overshadowed Beethoven the creator of songs. Yet his lieder are certainly not lacking in appeal or originality, as is shown by this selection that includes the most famous, from 'Adelaide' to the first song cycle in history, 'An die ferne Geliebte'. Christoph Berner plays a Streicher fortepiano of 1847, perfectly suited to both the songs and the wonderful Bagatelles Op.126.

BBC Music Magazine Award Finalist 2016 - vocal

"Güra's noble and beautifully enunciated tenor recreates the sheer energy and spiritual struggle within the microcosm of Beethoven's songs…Berner's 1847 Streicher fortepiano captures well the clarity and the tonal depths of Beethoven's keyboard writing. And the artfully placed Bagatelles, fearlessly played, become both responses to and a spiritual fine-tuning for our reception of the songs." (BBC Music)

"Interlacing a selection of (mainly) popular Lieder with piano miniatures, Werner Güra and Christoph Berner here create the Beethovenian answer to a Schubertiade. Playing on an 1847 Streicher fortepiano - a direct descendant of the kind of instrument Beethoven knew - Berner relishes t[the Bagatelles'] quirkiness, explosive energy and rarefied lyricism...Güra's mellifluous tenor has lost none of the freshness of a decade and more ago. He sings An die ferne Geliebte with a wondering, confiding intimacy, punctuated by surges of excited urgency." Gramophone Award Nomination 2016 - Solo Vocal

Tracks:

An die Hoffnung, Op 32
Lied aus der Ferne, WoO 137
Bagatelles (6), Op. 126
Zärtliche Liebe 'Ich liebe dich', WoO 123
An die ferne Geliebte (To the distant beloved), Op. 98
Adelaide, Op. 46
Der Kuss, Op. 128
Wonne der Wehmut, Op. 83 No. 1
Resignation, WoO 149
An die Hoffnung, Op. 94