Eisler: Lieder Vol. 4 - Songs 1917-1927 - MDG: MDG6132126 - CD

As with previous releases, Holger Folk’s fourth survey of Eisler songs makes for riveting listening, Pianist Steffen Schleiermacher is a mesmerising partner, helping create often eerie, stark... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2020, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 6th Dec 2019
Catalogue No: MDG6132126
Label: MDG
Series: Scene

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Eisler: Madele, bind den Geissbock an

Holger Falk (baritone), Steffen Schleiermacher (piano)

Eisler: Dumpfe Trommel und berauschtes Gong

Holger Falk (baritone), Steffen Schleiermacher (piano)

Eisler: Der Tod

Holger Falk (baritone), Steffen Schleiermacher (piano)

Eisler: Totenopfer

Holger Falk (baritone), Steffen Schleiermacher (piano)

Eisler: Nachtgruss

Holger Falk (baritone), Steffen Schleiermacher (piano)

Eisler: Unter Feinden

Holger Falk (baritone), Steffen Schleiermacher (piano)

Eisler: Die Mausfalle

Holger Falk (baritone), Steffen Schleiermacher (piano)

Eisler: Immer wieder nahst Du, Melancholie

Holger Falk (baritone), Steffen Schleiermacher (piano)

Eisler: Tanzlied der Rosetta

Holger Falk (baritone), Steffen Schleiermacher (piano)

Eisler: Am Morgen

Holger Falk (baritone), Steffen Schleiermacher (piano)

Eisler: Im Fruhling

Holger Falk (baritone), Steffen Schleiermacher (piano)

Eisler: Zwei Lieder fur Gesang und Klavier

Holger Falk (baritone), Steffen Schleiermacher (piano)

Eisler: Wenn der Tag vorbei

Holger Falk (baritone), Steffen Schleiermacher (piano)

Eisler: Lieder (6), Op. 2

Holger Falk (baritone), Steffen Schleiermacher (piano)

Eisler: Von der Langeweile

Holger Falk (baritone), Steffen Schleiermacher (piano)

Eisler: Zeitungsausschnitte

Holger Falk (baritone), Steffen Schleiermacher (piano)

Eisler: Lustige Ecke

Holger Falk (baritone), Steffen Schleiermacher (piano)

Eisler: Was möchtest du nicht

Holger Falk (baritone), Steffen Schleiermacher (piano)

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Hanns Eisler composed more than five hundred songs, and his very first extant compositions include songs with piano accompaniment. On the fourth and last volume of their selections from Eisler’s songs, Holger Falk and Steffen Schleiermacher focus on his early works and bring to light an absolutely astonishing discovery: the young Hanns was an autodidact who had an incredible feel for the song part, and his artistic aspirations are also evident in the piano part.

Eisler transcends by far the mere imitation of models. Here we encounter free tonal compositions as well as music of revue character, expressive passages as well as laconic ones. His choice of texts is likewise very broad. While Brecht became the focus in Eisler’s later work, here he concentrates on poems by Eichendorff and Büchner and by Trakl and Morgenstern. The songs set to Far Eastern poetry, in translations by Hans Bethge and Klabund, are very much in keeping with their times. Eisler even set newspaper advertisements to music!

Previous volumes have received great critical acclaim.

Volume 1 was a Gramophone Editor’s Choice and was also a finalist into the Gramophone Awards Vocal Category.

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March 2020

As with previous releases, Holger Folk’s fourth survey of Eisler songs makes for riveting listening, Pianist Steffen Schleiermacher is a mesmerising partner, helping create often eerie, stark atmospheres.

September/October 2020

The composer could ask for no finer advocates than Holger Falk and his brilliant accompanist Steffen Schleiermacher, who also provides the CD’s impressive liner notes. They are artists of the highest rank, deeply committed to this material.

March 2020

What’s remarkable is the conviction and honesty that underpin even these earliest songs – and there are some gems...As before, there’s little to fault in Falk’s committed, imaginative singing or Schleiermacher’s vivid accompaniment. Over these four albums the pair have recorded more than 150 songs in what’s an important project.

Eisler: Lieder Vol. 4 - Songs 1917-1927

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