Trevor Pinnock "Mahler: Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (arr. Schoenberg)" SACD

Trevor Pinnock "Mahler: Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (arr. Schoenberg)" SACD

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Historical performance pioneer Trevor Pinnock conducts the Royal Academy of Music Soloists Ensemble in revealing chamber arrangements from Mahler to Zemlinksy. Featuring soloists Katie Bray (soprano) and Gareth Brynmor John (baritone).

Performance: 4 stars / Sound: 4 stars 'Trevor Pinnock's direction of the excellent RAM Soloists Ensemble, and nicely captured in this warm, close, yet clear recording.' BBC Music Magazine

'All four works together make for a well-balanced programme and the playing of the Royal Academy of Music chamber soloists is pleasingly flexible throughout, Linn’s excellent engineering airy but detailed…The Wagner is beautifully mellow.' Gramophone

'The performances of baritone Gareth Brynmor John in the Mahler and mezzo-soprano Katie Bray in the Zemlinsky are especially warm and intimate in this setting… recommended for all listeners.' AllMusic.com

4.5 stars 'The (Siegfried Idyll) work's beauty, charm and intimacy is conveyed in a way that full orchestral accounts can never match, and one could hardly imagine a finer performance than it receives here from the excellent Royal Academy of Music Soloists Ensemble.' SA-CD.net

Mahler: Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (arr. Schoenberg) is the third in the series which sees Trevor and the Academy perform and record works which are retrospectively reigniting Schoenberg's vision of performing chamber reductions of symphonic repertoire. 

The works in this recording transport us to a period of vast musical change: in Mahler we hear nostalgia welded with modernism; with Wagner, we hear the sunset of Romanticism; with Zemlinsky we hear the seeds of fin-de-siècle Vienna; and in all, the extremities of emotion distilled into non-symphonic forces. Arnold Schoenberg's own arrangement of Mahler's intensely personal song cycle is followed by Erwin Stein's arrangement of Busoni's landmark composition Berceuse élégiaque.

Specially commissioned for this chamber series is Christopher Austin's arrangement of Zemlinsky's evocative Sechs Gesänge, which enjoys its premiere recording here. Closing the disc is Wagner's infamous Siegfried Idyll.

The arrangements for chamber forces serve to illuminate the original scores; the clarity achieved in these performances expose revealing new insights.

Tracklisting

  1. Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (Arr. A Schoenberg for Baritone & Chamber Ensemble): No. 1, Wenn mein Schatz Hochzeit macht
  2. Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (Arr. A Schoenberg for Baritone & Chamber Ensemble): No. 2, Ging heut' morgen übers Feld
  3. Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (Arr. A Schoenberg for Baritone & Chamber Ensemble): No. 3, Ich hab' ein glühend Messer
  4. Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (Arr. A Schoenberg for Baritone & Chamber Ensemble): No. 4, Die zwei blauen Augen
  5. Berceuse élégiaque, Op. 42, BV 252a (Arr. E. Stein for Chamber Ensemble)
  6. 6 Gesänge, Op. 13 (Arr. C. Austin for Mezzo-soprano & Chamber Ensemble): No. 1, Die drei Schwestern
  7. 6 Gesänge, Op. 13 (Arr. C. Austin for Mezzo-soprano & Chamber Ensemble): No. 2, Die Mädchen mit den verbundenen Augen
  8. 6 Gesänge, Op. 13 (Arr. C. Austin for Mezzo-soprano & Chamber Ensemble): No. 3, Lied der Jungfrau
  9. 6 Gesänge, Op. 13 (Arr. C. Austin for Mezzo-soprano & Chamber Ensemble): No. 4, Als ihr Geliebter schied
  10. 6 Gesänge, Op. 13 (Arr. C. Austin for Mezzo-soprano & Chamber Ensemble): No. 5, Und kehrt er einst heim
  11. 6 Gesänge, Op. 13 (Arr. C. Austin for Mezzo-soprano & Chamber Ensemble): No. 6, Sie kam zum Schloß gegangen
  12. Siegfried Idyll (Version for Chamber Ensemble) by Royal Academy of Music Soloists Ensemble