Sarah Connolly / William Dazeley / Iain Burnside
Sonnett für Wien
- Type CD
- Label Signum Classics
- UPC 0635212016022
- Catalog number SIGCD 160
- Release date 01 August 2009
About the album
Erich Korngold is perhaps best known as the pioneering émigré composer whose grand orchestral scores defined the sound of film during the golden age of Hollywood. As well as this though, his output for voice in the form of Lieder and Song highlighted the strong bond that Korngold forever held with his homeland and the city of Vienna, a place inextricably linked to the High-Romantic style that Korngold so ably perfected.
This collection of songs and lieder are beautifully performed by Sarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano) and William Dazeley (baritone), accompanied by renowned pianist and broadcaster Iain Burnside.
In a feature for BBC Music Magazine in June 2013, Sarah Connolly picked this disc as her favourite recording, saying:
"We recorded this in the lovely Potton Hall in East Anglia. I was in very fresh voice, and the producer John West was very encouraging and left me to my own devices. But when listened to the playback I couldn't believe how closely miked I sounded - you could hear the formation of consonants, everything. John said 'Don't worry, we've got it in hand, we'll make it sound right.' When listened to the final recording I couldn't believe how clean it sounded. I now use it as an example of how I'd like my voice to sound."
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11Sonnett fur Wien Op 41
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12Vier Abschiedslieder, Op. 14 Sterbelied
04:16 -
13Vier Abschiedslieder, Op. 14 Dies eine kann mein Sehnen
02:29 -
14Vier Abschiedslieder, Op. 14 Mond, so gehst du wieder auf
04:03 -
15Vier Abschiedslieder, Op. 14 Gefasster Abschied
03:51 -
16Drei Lieder, Op. 18 In meine innige Nacht
04:15 -
17Drei Lieder, Op. 18 Tu ab den Schmerz
01:40 -
18Drei Lieder, Op. 18 Versuchung
02:27 -
19Drei Lieder, Op. 22 Was du mir bist?
03:13 -
110Drei Lieder, Op. 22 Mit dir zu schweigen
01:59 -
111Drei Lieder, Op. 22 Welt ist stille eingeschlafen
03:14 -
112Four Shakespeare Songs, Op. 31 Desdemona's Song
03:02 -
113Four Shakespeare Songs, Op. 31 Under the Greenwood tree
02:15 -
114Four Shakespeare Songs, Op. 31 Blow, blow, thou winter wind
02:07 -
115Four Shakespeare Songs, Op. 31 When birds do sing
02:44 -
116Unverganglichkeit, Op. 27 Unverganglichkeit
02:34 -
117Unverganglichkeit, Op. 27 Das eilende Bachlein
01:46 -
118Unverganglichkeit, Op. 27 Das schlafende Kind
02:15 -
119Unverganglichkeit, Op. 27 Starker als der Tod
01:37 -
120Unverganglichkeit, Op. 27 Unverganglichkeit
02:46 -
121Songs of the Clown, Op. 29 Come away death
02:15 -
122Songs of the Clown, Op. 29 O Mistress Mine
01:52 -
123Songs of the Clown, Op. 29 Adieu, Good Man Devil
00:44 -
124Songs of the Clown, Op. 29 Hey Robin
00:44 -
125Songs of the Clown, Op. 29 For the rain, it raineth every day
02:53 -
126Funf Lieder, Op. 38 Gluckwunsch
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127Funf Lieder, Op. 38 Der Kranke
02:39 -
128Funf Lieder, Op. 38 Alt-Spanisch
01:35 -
129Funf Lieder, Op. 38 Old English Song
01:00 -
130Funf Lieder, Op. 38 My Mistress' Eyes
02:14