[ Harmonia Mundi / CD ]
Release Date: Friday 6 March 2020
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The mystery of the ballad comes from the way it is told.' (Goethe). Epic to the point of hallucination, this genre calls for skill in narrative, word-painting, evocation. And it is as a peerless storyteller that Stéphane Degout tackles this repertory which the German Romantics raised to unequalled heights. Who would have believed, before listening to this disc, that a French baritone could pay such eloquent tribute to the language of Goethe?
1. Franz Schuber
Der Zwerg, D. 771
2. Carl Loewe
Balladen, Op. 1 - I. Edwar
3. Robert Schumann
Belsatzar, Op. 57
4. Johannes Brahms
Balladen und Romanzen, Op. 75 - I. Edward
5. Johannes Brahms
Duette, Op. 28 - I. Die Nonne und der Ritter
6. Robert Schumann
Romanzen und Balladen II, Op. 49 - I. Die beiden Grenadiere
7. Franz Liszt
Die drei Zigeuner, S. 320
8. Franz Liszt
Es war ein König in Thule, S. 278/2
9. Hugo Wolf
Gedichte von Eduard Mörike - 44. Der Feuerreiter
10. Franz Liszt
3 Sonetti di Petrarca, S. 270/1 - Benedetto sia 'l giorno
11. Franz Liszt
3 Sonetti di Petrarca, S. 270/1 - Pace non trovo
12. Franz Liszt
3 Sonetti di Petrarca, S. 270/1 - I' vidi in terra angelici costumi