Franz-Josef Selig
Prometheus Schubert, Strauss & Wolf Lieder
- Type CD
- Label CAvi
- UPC 4260085533022
- Catalog number Avi 8553302
- Release date 29 August 2014
About the album
This is the first Solo Album by the bass Franz-Josef Selig, who is of course one of the most significant bass voices since years in the opera section. Now he takes on the bass Lieder of three important Lieder specialists together with his accompanist Gerold Huber.
Franz-Josef Selig has made his personal reflection on the selection of Lieder on this CD: ....." a sombre collection of lieder such as this one does not have to be taken at face value as something merely sinister or depressing, but hopefully also as an invitation to face our own mortality with courage: an ongoing attempt to prepare for that which is intangible and unavoidable. How wonderful, then, if one day we could say to Nature, like the poet in Richard Strauss’s song Das Tal: “So quietly open your mouth, accept me, close it once more, and go on blooming, healthy and cheerful as always”. (Franz-Josef Selig)
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11I Auf der Donau D 553
02:52 -
12II Der Tod und das Mädchen D 531
02:31 -
13III An den Tod D 518
02:35 -
14IV Grenzen der Menschheit D 716
07:27 -
15V Prometheus D 674
05:43 -
16VI Wohl denk’ ich oft
04:10 -
17VII Alles endet, was entstehet
04:29 -
18VIII Fühlt meine Seele
04:02 -
19IX Fahrt zum Hades D 526
05:20 -
110X Der Sieg D 805
03:13 -
111XI Das Abendroth D 627
04:26 -
112XII Aus Heliopolis II D 754
02:14 -
113XIII Gruppe aus dem Tartarus D 583
03:18 -
114XIV Der Wanderer D 489
05:22 -
115XV Das Tal op. 51, 1
07:51 -
116XVI Der Einsame op. 51, 2
03:26 -
117XVII Im Spätboot op. 56, 3
04:07
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