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Hans Sommer- Mignons Sehnen

SKU: 4260123642815
¥148.00
the album cover for Hans Sommer - Mignons Sehnen
the album cover for Hans Sommer - Mignons Sehnen

As a composer Hans Sommer became well known for his songs and especially for his operas. Since, however, no opera of Sommer's could hold it's own in the repertoire for any length of time, one overlooked easily the quality of his works and his contribution to the further development of the opera genre. The songs, sung frequently during their lifetime, disappeared from the repertoire of the singers through the time-boundness of the selected poems; Hans Sommer wrote the most important contributions in the area of the art song at a time when his star was already sinking and he no longer had a large audience. The fact that he published his operas and parts of his song making in self-publishing and the publisher Litolff, who had published at least half of the total of about 300 songs Hans Sommer's was dissolved in 1940, a possible revival of works by Hans Sommer's has been simply impossible until now. Sommer's final compositions, which are centered mainly on Goethe's texts, serve as a message to posterity, advocating an intellectual mindset that, throughout his life, was rooted in Naturphilosophie, a philosophical approach to nature that flourished in the German-speaking world in the early 19th century. The selection of texts furthermore bears eloquent testimony to Sommer's loneliness in his final years and the unwavering "optimism of an incorrigible idealist".

Tracklist:

  1. Sapphos Gesänge, Op. 6: No. 1, Die Blume Verblüht
  2. Sapphos Gesänge, Op. 6: No. 2, Wozu Soll Ich Reden?
  3. Sapphos Gesänge, Op. 6: No. 3, Hört Mich, Ihr Grausamen Götter!
  4. Sapphos Gesänge, Op. 6: No. 4, Nicht Lange Ist's Her
  5. Sapphos Gesänge, Op. 6: No. 5, Ich Singe Der Kraft
  6. Sapphos Gesänge, Op. 6: No. 6, Weine Nicht
  7. 7 Lieder, Op. 16: No. 4, Singst Mein Schatz Wie Ein Fink
  8. 7 Lieder, Op. 16: No. 6, Du Milchjunger Knabe
  9. 7 Lieder, Op. 16: No. 2, Wandl' Ich In Dem Morgenthau
  10. 7 Lieder, Op. 16: No. 5, Die Lor' Sitzt Im Garten
  11. 7 Lieder, Op. 16: No. 7, Die Begegnung
  12. 7 Lieder, Op. 16: No. 1, Mir Glänzen Die Augen
  13. 7 Lieder, Op. 16: No. 3, Das Köhlerweib Ist Trunken
  14. Desdemona
  15. 9 Lieder, Op. 9: No. 9, Auf Einer Burg
  16. Lorelei, Op. 7
  17. 9 Lieder, Op. 9: No. 3, Nachtzauber
  18. Mignons Heimath
  19. Mignons Sehnen, Op. Posth.
  20. Mignon Singt, Als Engel Angetan, Op. Posth.
  21. 5 Lieder, Op. 1: No. 1, Stumme Liebe
Format: New CD/International

Hans Sommer- Mignons Sehnen

SKU: 4260123642815
¥148.00

Release Date: 04.20.2018

 
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As a composer Hans Sommer became well known for his songs and especially for his operas. Since, however, no opera of Sommer's could hold it's own in the repertoire for any length of time, one overlooked easily the quality of his works and his contribution to the further development of the opera genre. The songs, sung frequently during their lifetime, disappeared from the repertoire of the singers through the time-boundness of the selected poems; Hans Sommer wrote the most important contributions in the area of the art song at a time when his star was already sinking and he no longer had a large audience. The fact that he published his operas and parts of his song making in self-publishing and the publisher Litolff, who had published at least half of the total of about 300 songs Hans Sommer's was dissolved in 1940, a possible revival of works by Hans Sommer's has been simply impossible until now. Sommer's final compositions, which are centered mainly on Goethe's texts, serve as a message to posterity, advocating an intellectual mindset that, throughout his life, was rooted in Naturphilosophie, a philosophical approach to nature that flourished in the German-speaking world in the early 19th century. The selection of texts furthermore bears eloquent testimony to Sommer's loneliness in his final years and the unwavering "optimism of an incorrigible idealist".

Tracklist:

  1. Sapphos Gesänge, Op. 6: No. 1, Die Blume Verblüht
  2. Sapphos Gesänge, Op. 6: No. 2, Wozu Soll Ich Reden?
  3. Sapphos Gesänge, Op. 6: No. 3, Hört Mich, Ihr Grausamen Götter!
  4. Sapphos Gesänge, Op. 6: No. 4, Nicht Lange Ist's Her
  5. Sapphos Gesänge, Op. 6: No. 5, Ich Singe Der Kraft
  6. Sapphos Gesänge, Op. 6: No. 6, Weine Nicht
  7. 7 Lieder, Op. 16: No. 4, Singst Mein Schatz Wie Ein Fink
  8. 7 Lieder, Op. 16: No. 6, Du Milchjunger Knabe
  9. 7 Lieder, Op. 16: No. 2, Wandl' Ich In Dem Morgenthau
  10. 7 Lieder, Op. 16: No. 5, Die Lor' Sitzt Im Garten
  11. 7 Lieder, Op. 16: No. 7, Die Begegnung
  12. 7 Lieder, Op. 16: No. 1, Mir Glänzen Die Augen
  13. 7 Lieder, Op. 16: No. 3, Das Köhlerweib Ist Trunken
  14. Desdemona
  15. 9 Lieder, Op. 9: No. 9, Auf Einer Burg
  16. Lorelei, Op. 7
  17. 9 Lieder, Op. 9: No. 3, Nachtzauber
  18. Mignons Heimath
  19. Mignons Sehnen, Op. Posth.
  20. Mignon Singt, Als Engel Angetan, Op. Posth.
  21. 5 Lieder, Op. 1: No. 1, Stumme Liebe