Saturday, January 31, 2015

Reposted: Songs from Rachmaninov, Shostakovich, Alma Mahler, Blacher, Britten

Rachmaninov / Shostakovich: Songs
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975): Spanish Songs Op. 100 from folk melodies and texts (1956)
Five Romances on poems by Yevgheny Dolmatovsky, Op. 98 (1954)
Sergei Rachmaninov (1873-1943): Songs from Opp. 4, 8, 14, 21, 26
Iris Oja, mezzo-soprano
Roger Vignoles, piano

[57'53] Recorded 2008
Reposted in the Kammermusikkammer

Alma Mahler-Werfel: Complete Songs
Alma Mahler-Werfel (1879-1964): Fünf Lieder
Vier Lieder
Fünf Gesänge
Alexander Zemlinsky (1871-1942): Songs op 7
Ruth Ziesak, Soprano
Iris Vermillion, Mezzo-soprano
Christian Elsner, Tenor
Cord Garben, Piano

[59:17] Recorded 1996
Reposted in the Kammermusikkammer

Boris Blacher: Die Lieder
Boris Blacher (1903-1975): Drei Chansons aus Shakespeares Romeo und Julia
Ungereimtes nach Kinderreimen
Vier Lieder nach Friedrich Wolf
Nebel nach Carl Sandburg
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird (Wallace Stevens)
Fünf Sinnsprüche Omars des Zeltmachers (Friedrich Rosen)
Drei Psalmen
Aprèslude (Gottfried Benn)
Francesca da Rimini
Jazz-Koloraturen
Markus Köhler, Bariton
Cornelia Wosnitza, Sopran
Katharina Richter, Koloratursopran
Horst Göbel, Klavier

[56:29] Recorded 1994/95
Reposted in the Kammermusikkammer

Britten: Songs and Proverbs of William Blake ...
Benjamin Britten (1913-1976): Songs and Proverbs of William Blake, Op. 74
Tit or Tat, after poems by Walter de la Mare
Folk-songs of the British Isles
Roderick Williams, Baritone
Iain Burnside, Piano

[60:45] Recorded 2011
Reposted in the Kammermusikkammer