Trennung - Songs of Separation

 
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Trennung - Songs of Separation
Carolyn Sampson (soprano), Kristian Bezuidenhout (fortepiano)

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Release Date: Friday 4 March 2022

In the early 19th century, while Haydn and Mozart remained revered, many of their once admired contemporaries quickly fell into oblivion and with them much delightful, finely crafted music. In a recital centred on songs of parting, Carolyn Sampson and Kristian Bezuidenhout seek to make some amends to this. They open with August Bernhard Valentin Herbing's Montan und Lalage, a miniature opera for one singer, with the keyboard-as-orchestra providing the scenery and stage action. Giving Bezuidenhout's fortepiano the recognition it deserves, the programme also includes no less than two songs dedicated to the instrument, by composers we rarely hear of today: Friedrich Gottlob Fleischer and Christian Michael Wolff. But even though Mozart and Haydn are still household names, it isn't on account of their solo songs, which makes the performers' decision to also throw light on their less familiar work a welcome one. The programme features four songs each by them, including Mozart's Lied der Trennung (Song of Parting), which has lent its name to the entire programme, as well as Haydn's Arianna a Naxos, a dramatic cantata in which the Cretan princess Ariadne expresses her love of the Greek hero Theseus … and her agony when he sails off, leaving her alone on the island of Naxos.

:"in these outwardly genteel songs what depths of human emotion are plumbed!...Sampson's beguiling, luminous voice, with immaculate German and elegant delivery, is perfectly matched by Bezuidenhout's endlessly inventive imagination...Enjoy a long soak in this luxurious bath of classy, 18th-century suffering." BBC Music

Tracks:

August Bernhard Valentin Herbing: Montan und Lalage

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Das Lied der Trennung; An Chloe; Als Luise die Briefe ihres ungetreuen Liebhabers verbrannte; Abendempfindung

Friedrich Gottlob Fleischer: An den Schlaf; Das Clavier

Christian Michael Wolff: An das Clavier

Joseph Haydn: Die Verlassene; Antwort auf die Frage eines Mädchens; Das Leben ist ein Traum; Arianna a Naxos, cantata a voce sola

Das Lied der Trennung, K. 519