Dvorák Centenary Song Recital

Thomas Hampson, Barbara Bonney and friends make Dvorak sing

Record and Artist Details

Composer or Director: Traditional, Charles Ives, Antonín Dvořák, Arthur Farwell, Charles Wakefield Cadman, Edvard Grieg, Johannes Brahms, Edward (Alexander) MacDowell, Gustav Mahler

Genre:

Vocal

Label: Orfeo d'or

Media Format: CD or Download

Media Runtime: 155

Mastering:

Stereo
DDD

Catalogue Number: C656052I

Tracks:

Composition Artist Credit
(4) Songs Antonín Dvořák, Composer
Antonín Dvořák, Composer
Michelle Breedt, Mezzo soprano
Wolfram Rieger, Piano
Evening Songs, Movement: The stars, Op. 3/1 Antonín Dvořák, Composer
Antonín Dvořák, Composer
George Zeppenfeld, Bass
Wolfram Rieger, Piano
Evening Songs, Movement: I dreamt last night, Op. 3/2 Antonín Dvořák, Composer
Antonín Dvořák, Composer
George Zeppenfeld, Bass
Wolfram Rieger, Piano
Evening Songs, Movement: I am that knight, Op. 3/3 Antonín Dvořák, Composer
Antonín Dvořák, Composer
George Zeppenfeld, Bass
Wolfram Rieger, Piano
(4) Songs, Movement: Leave me alone Antonín Dvořák, Composer
Antonín Dvořák, Composer
Barbara Bonney, Soprano
Wolfram Rieger, Piano
(4) Songs, Movement: At the brook Antonín Dvořák, Composer
Antonín Dvořák, Composer
Barbara Bonney, Soprano
Wolfram Rieger, Piano
(6) Songs, Movement: No. 5, The time of roses (Zur Rosenzeit) Edvard Grieg, Composer
Barbara Bonney, Soprano
Edvard Grieg, Composer
Wolfram Rieger, Piano
(6) Songs, Movement: No. 6, A dream (Ein Traum) Edvard Grieg, Composer
Barbara Bonney, Soprano
Edvard Grieg, Composer
Wolfram Rieger, Piano
(4) Lieder, Movement: No. 1, Von ewiger Liebe (wds. Fallersleben) Johannes Brahms, Composer
Barbara Bonney, Soprano
Johannes Brahms, Composer
Wolfram Rieger, Piano
(4) Lieder, Movement: No. 2, Die Mainacht (wds. Hölty) Johannes Brahms, Composer
Barbara Bonney, Soprano
Johannes Brahms, Composer
Wolfram Rieger, Piano
(7) Gipsy Melodies, 'Zigeunerlieder', Movement: No. 1, My song of love Antonín Dvořák, Composer
Antonín Dvořák, Composer
Thomas Hampson, Baritone
Wolfram Rieger, Piano
(7) Gipsy Melodies, 'Zigeunerlieder', Movement: No. 2, Hey! ring out my triangle Antonín Dvořák, Composer
Antonín Dvořák, Composer
Thomas Hampson, Baritone
Wolfram Rieger, Piano
(7) Gipsy Melodies, 'Zigeunerlieder', Movement: No. 4, Songs my mother taught me Antonín Dvořák, Composer
Antonín Dvořák, Composer
Thomas Hampson, Baritone
Wolfram Rieger, Piano
(7) Gipsy Melodies, 'Zigeunerlieder', Movement: No. 7, Give a hawk a fine cage Antonín Dvořák, Composer
Antonín Dvořák, Composer
Thomas Hampson, Baritone
Wolfram Rieger, Piano
(9) Moravian Duets Antonín Dvořák, Composer
Antonín Dvořák, Composer
Barbara Bonney, Soprano
Michelle Breedt, Mezzo soprano
Wolfram Rieger, Piano
(10) Biblical Songs, Movement: Clouds and darkness Antonín Dvořák, Composer
Antonín Dvořák, Composer
Thomas Hampson, Baritone
Wolfram Rieger, Piano
(10) Biblical Songs, Movement: Give ear to my prayer Antonín Dvořák, Composer
Antonín Dvořák, Composer
Thomas Hampson, Baritone
Wolfram Rieger, Piano
(10) Biblical Songs, Movement: The Lord is my shepherd Antonín Dvořák, Composer
Antonín Dvořák, Composer
Thomas Hampson, Baritone
Wolfram Rieger, Piano
(10) Biblical Songs, Movement: By the rivers of Babylon Antonín Dvořák, Composer
Antonín Dvořák, Composer
Thomas Hampson, Baritone
Wolfram Rieger, Piano
(10) Biblical Songs, Movement: O sing unto the Lord. Antonín Dvořák, Composer
Antonín Dvořák, Composer
Thomas Hampson, Baritone
Wolfram Rieger, Piano
Lieder aus 'Das Knaben Wunderhorn', Movement: Urlicht Gustav Mahler, Composer
Gustav Mahler, Composer
Michelle Breedt, Mezzo soprano
Wolfram Rieger, Piano
Steal away to Jesus Traditional, Composer
George Zeppenfeld, Bass
Traditional, Composer
Wolfram Rieger, Piano
Deep River Traditional, Composer
George Zeppenfeld, Bass
Traditional, Composer
Wolfram Rieger, Piano
By and by Traditional, Composer
George Zeppenfeld, Bass
Traditional, Composer
Wolfram Rieger, Piano
Indian Songs, Movement: Song of the Deathless Voice Arthur Farwell, Composer
Arthur Farwell, Composer
Thomas Hampson, Baritone
Wolfram Rieger, Piano
Indian Songs, Movement: Inketunga's Thunder Song Arthur Farwell, Composer
Arthur Farwell, Composer
Thomas Hampson, Baritone
Wolfram Rieger, Piano
Indian Songs, Movement: The Old Man's Love Song Arthur Farwell, Composer
Arthur Farwell, Composer
Thomas Hampson, Baritone
Wolfram Rieger, Piano
(4) American Indian songs, Movement: From the land of the sky-blue water Charles Wakefield Cadman, Composer
Charles Wakefield Cadman, Composer
Thomas Hampson, Baritone
Wolfram Rieger, Piano
(4) American Indian songs, Movement: The moon Drops Low Charles Wakefield Cadman, Composer
Charles Wakefield Cadman, Composer
Thomas Hampson, Baritone
Wolfram Rieger, Piano
(8) Songs, Movement: (The) Sea (Wds. W. D. Howells) Edward (Alexander) MacDowell, Composer
Edward (Alexander) MacDowell, Composer
Thomas Hampson, Baritone
Wolfram Rieger, Piano
Songs my mother taught me Charles Ives, Composer
Charles Ives, Composer
Thomas Hampson, Baritone
Wolfram Rieger, Piano
(8) Love Songs, Movement: When thy sweet glances Antonín Dvořák, Composer
Antonín Dvořák, Composer
Michelle Breedt, Mezzo soprano
Wolfram Rieger, Piano
(8) Love Songs, Movement: Death reigns Antonín Dvořák, Composer
Antonín Dvořák, Composer
Michelle Breedt, Mezzo soprano
Wolfram Rieger, Piano
(8) Love Songs, Movement: Thou only dear one Antonín Dvořák, Composer
Antonín Dvořák, Composer
Michelle Breedt, Mezzo soprano
Wolfram Rieger, Piano
(8) Love Songs, Movement: I know that on my love Antonín Dvořák, Composer
Antonín Dvořák, Composer
Michelle Breedt, Mezzo soprano
Wolfram Rieger, Piano
(8) Love Songs, Movement: In deepest forest glade Antonín Dvořák, Composer
Antonín Dvořák, Composer
Michelle Breedt, Mezzo soprano
Wolfram Rieger, Piano
(8) Love Songs, Movement: Nature lies peaceful Antonín Dvořák, Composer
Antonín Dvořák, Composer
Michelle Breedt, Mezzo soprano
Wolfram Rieger, Piano
(4) Ernste Gesänge, 'Four Serious Songs' Johannes Brahms, Composer
George Zeppenfeld, Bass
Johannes Brahms, Composer
Wolfram Rieger, Piano
Ambitiously entitled ‘Dvorák and his Age’, this set offers more than half of a marathon Lieder recital of almost four hours at the Salzburg Festival. It was the brainchild of Thomas Hampson, who contributes some of the key sections in this fascinating survey of Dvorák as song-composer and the influences both on him and from him. That may sound exhausting, but it is certainly not – not least to the festival audience – when the well contrasted singers make such stylish contributions.

The young mezzo Michelle Breedt opens Dvorák’s Op 2, four early settings in Czech, direct in idiom, that already demonstrate his lyrical gift. Bass George Zeppenfeld then sings Op 3 Lieder, with German texts, which are again lyrical and direct. Barbara Bonney continues the German settings with two from Dvorák’s Op 83 set and two by Grieg, and crowned by Brahms’s sublime Die Mainacht and Von ewige Liebe.

Hampson’s four Gypsy Songs include the most famous of all, usually translated as ‘Songs my mother taught me’, before a half-hour devoted to 13 of Dvorák’s Moravian Duets, enchantingly sung by Bonney and Breedt (memories here of a classic mono recording by Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Irmgard Seefried and Gerald Moore).

The second disc, also generously filled, is structured with similar thoughtfulness. Dvorák’s relationship with American music is covered – including spirituals and so-called Indian songs which open with mystic cries in indigenous languages – by Hampson, who adds a fascinating rarity in Charles Ives’s setting of ‘Songs my mother taught me’. Dvorák’s attractive English ballads are sung by Michelle Breedt.

The final ‘World of Faith’ section, provides a satisfying climax: Brahms’s Four Serious Songs are beautifully sung by George Zeppenfeld, with velvet tone, Mahler’s Knaben Wunderhorn setting ‘Urlicht’, later used in the Resurrection Symphony, is sung by Breedt, and five of Dvorák’s Biblical Songs are powerfully and sensitively delivered by Hampson. A special mention, too, for accompanist Wolfram Rieger, running the full marathon from beginning to end.

Well balanced recording and a minimum of intrusive applause. Full texts are provided, with English translations for songs with German texts, but German translations only for those with Czech texts. Altogether an illuminating package.

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