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Wolf / Appl / Philharmonie- Orchesterlieder / Penthes (CD)

SKU: 761203538027
¥131.00
the album cover for Wolf / Appl / Philharmonie - Orchesterlieder / Penthes
the album cover for Wolf / Appl / Philharmonie - Orchesterlieder / Penthes

I am too cowardly to be a proper composer, Hugo Wolf confessed to a Viennese friend when he was barely 28 years old. And the result of his introspection was not so wrong: everything in his life, not only composing, proceeded in explosive spurts. He wandered through the deepest emotional valleys, suddenly flew up into the highest regions, suffered agonies when he couldn't think of anything to say, shouted his enthusiasm about a successful piece to the whole world and still managed to produce a respectable, albeit fragmentary oeuvre, from which the early poem Penthesilea after Heinrich von Kleist's tragedy of the same name stands out as a symphonic masterpiece. The Austrian baritone Benjamin Appl and the Jena Philharmonic Orchestra, led by it's principal conductor Simon Gaudenz, have prefaced this highly dramatic monolith with twelve selected songs, most of which were orchestrated by their author himself: a dozen small, finely polished gems based on texts by Goethe, Mörike and Heyse, whose subtle arrangements leave no doubt that Hugo Wolf would certainly have had the makings of a "proper composer". Whether then, of course, the ingenious things would have been created that posterity owes to him - that is another matter.

Tracklist:

  1. Mörike-Lieder (Excerpts Arr. For Voice & Orchestra): No. 25, Schlafendes Jesuskind
  2. Goethe-Lieder (Excerpts Arr. For Voice & Orchestra): No. 19, Epiphanias
  3. Goethe-Lieder (Excerpts Arr. For Voice & Orchestra): No. 29, Anakreons Grab
  4. Mörike-Lieder (Excerpts Arr. For Voice & Orchestra): No. 39, Denk' Es, O Seele
  5. Goethe-Lieder (Excerpts Arr. For Voice & Orchestra): No. 49, Prometheus
  6. Mörike-Lieder (Excerpts Arr. For Voice & Orchestra): No. 29, An Den Schlaf
  7. Goethe-Lieder (Excerpts Arr. For Voice & Orchestra): No. 1, Harfenspieler I
  8. Goethe-Lieder (Excerpts Arr. For Voice & Orchestra): No. 2, Harfenspieler II
  9. Goethe-Lieder (Excerpts Arr. For Voice & Orchestra): No. 3, Harfenspieler III
  10. Italienisches Liederbuch: No. 33, Sterb' Ich (Arr. For Orchestra)
  11. Mörike-Lieder (Excerpts Arr. For Voice & Orchestra): No. 28, Gebet
  12. Mörike-Lieder (Excerpts Arr. For Voice & Orchestra): No. 10, Fußreise
  13. Penthesilea: I. Aufbruch Der Amazonen Nach Troja
  14. Penthesilea: II. Der Traum Penthesileas Vom Rosenfest
  15. Penthesilea: III. Kämpfe, Leidenschaften, Wahnsinn, Vernichtung
Format: New CD/Classical

Wolf / Appl / Philharmonie- Orchesterlieder / Penthes (CD)

SKU: 761203538027
¥131.00

Release Date: 05.20.2022

 
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I am too cowardly to be a proper composer, Hugo Wolf confessed to a Viennese friend when he was barely 28 years old. And the result of his introspection was not so wrong: everything in his life, not only composing, proceeded in explosive spurts. He wandered through the deepest emotional valleys, suddenly flew up into the highest regions, suffered agonies when he couldn't think of anything to say, shouted his enthusiasm about a successful piece to the whole world and still managed to produce a respectable, albeit fragmentary oeuvre, from which the early poem Penthesilea after Heinrich von Kleist's tragedy of the same name stands out as a symphonic masterpiece. The Austrian baritone Benjamin Appl and the Jena Philharmonic Orchestra, led by it's principal conductor Simon Gaudenz, have prefaced this highly dramatic monolith with twelve selected songs, most of which were orchestrated by their author himself: a dozen small, finely polished gems based on texts by Goethe, Mörike and Heyse, whose subtle arrangements leave no doubt that Hugo Wolf would certainly have had the makings of a "proper composer". Whether then, of course, the ingenious things would have been created that posterity owes to him - that is another matter.

Tracklist:

  1. Mörike-Lieder (Excerpts Arr. For Voice & Orchestra): No. 25, Schlafendes Jesuskind
  2. Goethe-Lieder (Excerpts Arr. For Voice & Orchestra): No. 19, Epiphanias
  3. Goethe-Lieder (Excerpts Arr. For Voice & Orchestra): No. 29, Anakreons Grab
  4. Mörike-Lieder (Excerpts Arr. For Voice & Orchestra): No. 39, Denk' Es, O Seele
  5. Goethe-Lieder (Excerpts Arr. For Voice & Orchestra): No. 49, Prometheus
  6. Mörike-Lieder (Excerpts Arr. For Voice & Orchestra): No. 29, An Den Schlaf
  7. Goethe-Lieder (Excerpts Arr. For Voice & Orchestra): No. 1, Harfenspieler I
  8. Goethe-Lieder (Excerpts Arr. For Voice & Orchestra): No. 2, Harfenspieler II
  9. Goethe-Lieder (Excerpts Arr. For Voice & Orchestra): No. 3, Harfenspieler III
  10. Italienisches Liederbuch: No. 33, Sterb' Ich (Arr. For Orchestra)
  11. Mörike-Lieder (Excerpts Arr. For Voice & Orchestra): No. 28, Gebet
  12. Mörike-Lieder (Excerpts Arr. For Voice & Orchestra): No. 10, Fußreise
  13. Penthesilea: I. Aufbruch Der Amazonen Nach Troja
  14. Penthesilea: II. Der Traum Penthesileas Vom Rosenfest
  15. Penthesilea: III. Kämpfe, Leidenschaften, Wahnsinn, Vernichtung