Liszt: The Complete Songs Volume 4
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FRANZ LISZT
Liszt: The Complete Songs Volume 4
Sasha Cooke (mezzo-soprano), Julius Drake (piano)
[ Hyperion / CD ]
Release Date: Friday 25 March 2016
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This fourth volume in our scholarly compendium once more charts Liszt's life through song (including three settings spanning as many decades of a portentous love-letter the composer received in 1841). Series maestro Julius Drake welcomes the gorgeous Sasha Cooke to Hyperion.
"[Sasha Cooke's] even, expressive voice is equal to all technical demands and rises to tremendous intensity for 'Wer nie sein Brot mit Tränen ass' while offering a deeply considered account of 'Sei still'" (BBC Music)
"The later songs, echoing the stripped back idiom of Liszt's late piano works, hover in territory between melody and recitative, their often hushed vocal lines barely supported by the sparest of accompaniments. Cooke is very much alive to their introversion and sadness. The way she encompasses small gradations in volume over a relatively narrow dynamic range impresses, while Drake makes every chord and phrase shiver with meaning" (Gramophone)
Tracks:
Des Tages Laute Stimmen Schweigen
Lasst mich ruhen
Was Liebe sei? (First version), S288/1
Verlassen, S336
Einst (Bodenstedt)
Ich scheide, S. 319
Was Liebe sei? (Second version), S288/2
Die Lorelei (Second version), S532
Wer nie sein Brot mit Tränen aß (2nd version), S297/2
Was Liebe sei? (Third version), S288/3
Mignons Lied (Second Version), S275/2
Sei still, S330
Wieder mocht' ich dir begegnen
Blume und Duft
Die tote Nachtigall (2nd version), S291/2
Il m'aimait tant, S533
Gebet, S265
