Prayer: Voice & Organ

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BACH / WOLF / SCHUBERT / BIZET / VERDI / etc
Prayer: Voice & Organ
Magdalena Kožená (mezzo-soprano) & Christian Schmitt (organ)

[ Deutsche Grammophon / CD ]

Release Date: Saturday 10 May 2014

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The new recording from Magdalena Kožená features deeply-felt interpretations of sacred songs from the Baroque to the 20th Century.

In a rare recording collaboration, she is joined by virtuoso Christian Schmitt, in music for voice and organ from the sacred traditions of Germany, Austria, France and England, as well as her native Czechoslovakia.

Of course, the album includes music by J.S. Bach - a composer with whom Magdalena Kožená has long been associated - with sacred aspects of German song represented by Hugo Wolf and Schubert.

The French tradition is heard in the music of Bizet, Ravel and the great Parisian organist Maurice Duruflé.

"Her Wolf is particularly luscious - never overworked but always emotionally direct, establishing the same flexible intimacy with the organ that we'd expect with a piano...Kožená sings superbly here, proving herself as flexible stylistically as she is vocally." Gramophone Magazine, May 2014

Tracks:

Bach, J S:
Komm süsser Tod, BWV478
So gibst du nun, mein Jesu, gute Nacht, BWV501
Die goldne Sonne, voll Freud' und Wonne, BWV451
Mein Jesu! was fuer Seelenweh, BWV487
Kommt, Seelen, dieser Tag, BWV479

Bizet:
Agnus Dei

Duruflé:
Notre Père, Op. 14

Dvorak:
Ave Maria, Op. 19b

Purcell:
Tell me, some pitying angel (The Blessed Virgin's Expostulation), Z196

Ravel:
Deux mélodies hébraïques: Kaddisch

Schubert:
Totengräbers Heimwehe D842 (Craigher)
Ave Maria, D839
Himmelsfunken, D651
Vom Mitleiden Maria D632 (Schlegel)
Litanei auf das Fest Allerseelen, D343
Der Leidende D432 (poet unknown)

Verdi:
Ave Maria, for voice & strings or piano

Wolf, H:
Karwoche (No. 26 from Mörike-Lieder)
Mühvoll komm ich und beladen (No. 7 from Spanisches Liederbuch: Geistliche Lieder)
Zum neuen Jahr (No. 27 from Mörike-Lieder)
Schlafendes Jesuskind (No. 25 from Mörike-Lieder)
Gebet (No. 28 from Mörike-Lieder)