MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Schubert / Schumann / Brahms / Wagner: Les Filles Du Rhin / Rhinemaidens
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SCHUBERT / SCHUMANN / BRAHMS / WAGNER
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Schubert / Schumann / Brahms / Wagner: Les Filles Du Rhin / Rhinemaidens
Bernarda Fink (mezzo), Anneke Scott, Joseph Walters, Olivier Picon, Chris Larkin (horns) Ensemble Pygmalion, Raphaël Pichon
[ Harmonia Mundi / CD ]
Release Date: Friday 18 March 2016
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Raphaël Pichon and his Ensemble Pygmalion invite us to follow the course of the Rhine in the company of his 'maidens'.
Drawing on the German imaginative heritage, they present a programme in a number of tableaux in which these great composers of German Romanticism are, as it were, intertwined on the thread of a tradition, bearing the song of the Rhinemaidens in all its mystery and enchantment.
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"The vocal ensemble Pygmalion, resident at the Opera de Bordeaux, are suitably seductive sirens - and even Bernarda Fink makes a cameo appearance in Schubert's D920 Grillparzer Ständchen, her serenading awash with fellow female songsters, and harp." BBC Music
"It's the discipline of the delivery - whether it's the firm, resonant voices or punchy horns - that impresses most here. Both passionate and precise about their subject matter, Pygmalion have discovered watery depths to familiar composers, and have certainly not sold us down the river." Gramophone
"as a potted history of the use of canon form by German romantics, the disc works very well...Moreover, the performances themselves are of high quality: the instrumentalists are beyond reproach, Fink is good, and Pygmalion's female singers are in most respects exemplary, particularly in the matter of intonation." MusicWeb
"ambitious, sometimes unexpected and yet always fascinating in its juxtapositions and comparisons … The singing from this French choral ensemble is both refined and characterful and the recording, made in a resonant church in Paris, adds bloom to the voices and provides ample atmosphere for the horns and harp without muddying the harmonies." Wagner Journal
Tracks:
Morpheus' Daughters
1/ WAGNER: Auf dem Grunde des Rheines pour 24 voix de femmes, harpe, 4 cors et 2 contrebasses
2/ SCHUMANN: Wiegenlied op.78/4 pour voix de femmes et harpe*
3/ BRAHMS: Ich schwing mein Horn ins Jammertal op.41/1, pour quatre cors
Mermaids
4/ SCHUMANN: Romance à voix égales op.69 no5: Meerfey
5/ SCHUBERT: Psaume XXIII Gott ist mein Hirt D.706 pour voix de femmes et harpe
6/ SCHUMANN: Romance à voix égales op.91 no6: In Meeres Mitten
Serenade
7/ WAGNER: Siegfried: Sonnerie de Siegfried pour cor solo
8/ BRAHMS: Volkslied en canon pour voix de femmes op.113 no5 Wille, wille will der Mann ist kommen!
9/ SCHUBERT: Ständchen D.920 pour mezzo-soprano, choeur de femmes et harpe
The Mourning Women
10/ SCHUBERT: Lacrimosa son io D.131b - Canon à trois voix égales
11/ SCHUMANN: Romance à voix égales op.69 no6 : Die Capelle
12/ SCHUBERT: Coronach D.836, pour voix de femmes, 2 cors et piano (harpe)
13/ WAGNER: Götterdämmerung: Marche funèbre de Siegfried pour 4 cors (arr. James Wilcox)
Love's grief is monotonous
14/ after ISAAC: Innsbruck, ich muss dich lassen*
15/ BRAHMS: Volkslied en canon pour voix de femmes op.113 no2: Grausam erweiset sich Amor an mir,
16/ Volkslied en canon pour voix de femmes op.113 no13: Einförmig ist der Liebe Gram
Rhinemaidens
17/ WAGNER: Götterdämmerung: Die Rheintöchter pour choeur de femmes, 2 cors et harpe*
18-21/ BRAHMS: Vier Gesänge op.17 pour voix de femmes, 2 cors et harpe
* Transcriptions Vincent Manac'h
