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Liszt: Songs for Bass Voice and Piano

Jared Schwartz (bass) & Mary Dibbern (piano)

Liszt: Songs for Bass Voice and Piano
Schwartz’s tone sometimes acquires a pulse in his middle registers but the intensity and emotional range of his singing are consistently compelling…He’s at his best in the late, unsparing reflections...

Liszt: Songs for Bass Voice and Piano

Jared Schwartz (bass) & Mary Dibbern (piano)

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Schwartz’s tone sometimes acquires a pulse in his middle registers but the intensity and emotional range of his singing are consistently compelling…He’s at his best in the late, unsparing reflections...

About

Throughout Liszt’s long career, his songs – perhaps the most neglected part of his enormous output – took a radical approach to form, eschewing convention in search of a sincere musical response to each text. His free-spirited creativity meant that a single song would often call on a range of stylistic devices, among them bel canto vocal lines, unaccompanied recitative, orchestrally conceived piano textures and audacious harmonic procedures. This first recording of Liszt songs by a bass voice brings out both the power and poetry of his remarkable imagination.

Contents and tracklist

Weimars Volkslied, S. 313
Track length6:49
3 Sonetti di Petrarca, S. 270b: No. 2, Pace non trovo
Track length5:08
Des Tages laute Stimmen schweigen, S. 337
Track length4:06
J'ai perdu ma force et ma vie, S. 327
Track length4:07
Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher, S. 293 / 2
Track length8:48
Sei still, S. 330
Track length3:31
Le juif errant, S. 300
Track length12:24
Über allen Gipfeln ist Ruh, S. 306 / 2
Track length3:52
O lieb so lang du lieben kannst, S. 298 / 2
Track length6:15
Du bist wie eine Blume, S. 287 / 2
Track length2:34
Weimars Toten, S. 303
Track length6:40

Awards and reviews

January 2018

Schwartz’s tone sometimes acquires a pulse in his middle registers but the intensity and emotional range of his singing are consistently compelling…He’s at his best in the late, unsparing reflections on mortality…The grander, extrovert numbers are comparably impressive.
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