Elina Garanca Lieder
Mezzo star Elīna Garančac companied in a programme of Schumann and Brahms by pianist Malcolm Martineau.
The Latvian singer has recorded her first solo recital album devoted exclusively to the Lied genre, choosing works that she has been performing live on stage for many years with the aim of documenting her personal interpretations of some classics of the German song repertoire.
The programme opens with Schumann’s song cycle Frauenliebe- und Leben op.42. Composed in 1840, it offers a chronological narrative of the different stages in the life of a woman. To complement the Schumann, she has chosen a selection of Lieder by Johannes Brahms - basing her choice of material on the desire to juxtapose songs expressing very different states of mind.
Garanča is accompanied on this album by Scottish pianist Malcolm Martineau, a sensitive and experienced musician who has long been her trusted partner in exploring these emotional sound worlds.
Tracklist:
ROBERT SCHUMANN (1810–1856)
Frauenliebe und Leben op. 42 - Adelbert von Chamisso
1 Seit ich ihn gesehen
2 Er, der Herrlichste von allen
3 Ich kann’s nicht fassen, nicht glauben
4 Du Ring an meinem Finger
5 Helft mir, ihr Schwestern
6 Süßer Freund, du blickest
7 An meinem Herzen, an meiner Brust
8 Nun hast du mir den ersten Schmerz getan
JOHANNES BRAHMS (1833–1897)
9 Liebestreu op. 3 no. 1
Robert Reinick
10 Heimweh II: “O wüsst’ ich doch den Weg zurück” op. 63 no. 8
Klaus Groth
11 Mädchenlied op. 107 no. 5
Paul Heyse
12 Liebe und Frühling II: “Ich muss hinaus” op. 3 no. 3
August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben
13 O kühler Wald op. 72 no. 3
Clemens Brentano
14 Verzagen op. 72 no. 4
Karl Lemcke
15 Sapphische Ode op. 94 no. 4
Hans Schmidt
16 O liebliche Wangen op. 47 no. 4
Paul Fleming
17 Geheimnis op. 71 no. 3
Karl August Candidus
18 Wir wandelten op. 96 no. 2
from the Hungarian by Georg Friedrich Daumer
19 Alte Liebe op. 72 no. 1
Karl August Candidus
20 Die Mainacht op. 43 no. 2
Ludwig Christoph Heinrich Hölty
21 Von ewiger Liebe op. 43 no. 1