Christoph & Julian Pregardien - Father & Son - Challenge Classics: CC72858 - CD

Release Date: 27th Nov 2020
Catalogue No: CC72858
Label: Challenge Classics

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Silcher: Frisch gesungen

Christoph Prégardien (tenor), Julian Prégardien (tenor), Michael Gees (piano)

Silcher: Ännchen von Tharau

Christoph Prégardien (tenor), Julian Prégardien (tenor), Michael Gees (piano)

Silcher: O wie herbe ist das Scheiden

Christoph Prégardien (tenor), Julian Prégardien (tenor), Michael Gees (piano)

Silcher: Loreley

Christoph Prégardien (tenor), Julian Prégardien (tenor), Michael Gees (piano)

Schubert: Erlkönig, D328

Christoph Prégardien (tenor), Julian Prégardien (tenor), Michael Gees (piano)

Schubert: Wandrers Nachtlied II 'Über allen Gipfeln ist Ruh', D768

Christoph Prégardien (tenor), Julian Prégardien (tenor), Michael Gees (piano)

Schubert: Zum Rundetanz, D983b

Christoph Prégardien (tenor), Julian Prégardien (tenor), Michael Gees (piano)

Schubert: Die Nacht, D983c

Christoph Prégardien (tenor), Julian Prégardien (tenor), Michael Gees (piano)

Schubert: Im Abendrot, D799

Christoph Prégardien (tenor), Julian Prégardien (tenor), Michael Gees (piano)

Schubert: Des Fischers Liebesgluck, D933 (Leitner)

Christoph Prégardien (tenor), Julian Prégardien (tenor), Michael Gees (piano)

Schubert: Auf dem Wasser zu singen, D774

Christoph Prégardien (tenor), Julian Prégardien (tenor), Michael Gees (piano)

Schubert: Der Zwerg, D771 (Collin)

Christoph Prégardien (tenor), Julian Prégardien (tenor), Michael Gees (piano)

Schubert: Meeres Stille, D216, Op. 3 No. 2 (Goethe)

Christoph Prégardien (tenor), Julian Prégardien (tenor), Michael Gees (piano)

Schubert: Widerspruch D865 (Seidl)

Christoph Prégardien (tenor), Julian Prégardien (tenor), Michael Gees (piano)

Schubert: Licht und Liebe D352 (Collin)

Christoph Prégardien (tenor), Julian Prégardien (tenor), Michael Gees (piano)

Schubert: Nacht und Träume, D827

Christoph Prégardien (tenor), Julian Prégardien (tenor), Michael Gees (piano)

Zilcher: Fruehlingsstrophe

Christoph Prégardien (tenor), Julian Prégardien (tenor), Michael Gees (piano)

Zilcher: Der betrunkene Sternseher

Christoph Prégardien (tenor), Julian Prégardien (tenor), Michael Gees (piano)

Zilcher: Ein Traum ist unser Leben

Christoph Prégardien (tenor), Julian Prégardien (tenor), Michael Gees (piano)

Zilcher: Ueber allen Gipfeln ist Ruh

Christoph Prégardien (tenor), Julian Prégardien (tenor), Michael Gees (piano)

Zilcher: Guter Rat

Christoph Prégardien (tenor), Julian Prégardien (tenor), Michael Gees (piano)

Brahms: Die Sonne scheint nicht mehr (No. 5 from Deutsche Volkslieder, WoO 33)

Christoph Prégardien (tenor), Julian Prégardien (tenor), Michael Gees (piano)

Brahms: In stiller Nacht (No. 42 from Deutsche Volkslieder, WoO 33)

Christoph Prégardien (tenor), Julian Prégardien (tenor), Michael Gees (piano)

Brahms: Erlaube mir, fein's Mädchen (No. 2 from Deutsche Volkslieder WoO 33)

Christoph Prégardien (tenor), Julian Prégardien (tenor), Michael Gees (piano)

Brahms: Da unten im Tale (No. 6 from Deutsche Volkslieder, WoO 33)

Christoph Prégardien (tenor), Julian Prégardien (tenor), Michael Gees (piano)

Schumann: Nachtlied, Op. 96 No. 1

Christoph Prégardien (tenor), Julian Prégardien (tenor), Michael Gees (piano)

Schumann: Weisst du, wieviel Sternlein stehen

Christoph Prégardien (tenor), Julian Prégardien (tenor), Michael Gees (piano)

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An intriguing project, whose programme is based on Lieder and traditional songs arranged for two tenors and piano. Well-known father and son, Christoph & Julian Pregardien, present these gentle and thoughtful, improvisational and communicative arrangements for two voices. The conditions under which Schuberts art of the song developed into a kaleidoscopically incandescent spectrum that crossed over genres and the institutionally set, historical boundaries disappear today as a rule under the pedestal that the late nineteenth century began to erect for the composer. The traces of improvisational practice were increasingly lost within a music culture that stylised the printed manuscript into a quasi sacred object. A particularly successful way of leading back to a fundamental impetus in Schuberts art of the song is through an approach towards the songs that takes the moment of spontaneous performance seriously as a communicative act, without denying the work character of Schuberts music. The idea of one universal human voice seems to materialise with particular intensity in the commingling of two voices of similar timbre, which can permanently interchange and double their identity. Based on our knowledge for instance of the Schubertiade reminiscences of 1868, remembered and noted down by Moritz von Schwind, can we not imagine that the Schubert singers Johann Michael Vogl and Karl von Schnstein might indeed have sung alternately (or even in unison)? Julian Prgardien: In our arrangements we first and foremost wanted an encounter with the prodigious complexity of Schuberts oeuvre in lied and to show that boundaries overlap! Schubert composed the song Widerspruch (Contradiction) in two versions in any case namely the solo version and as an ensemble lied and we are now in a way adding a third. With Licht und Liebe (Light and Love) we have also included an original composition for two voices, as well as dramatic ballads, convivial vocal ensembles and elegiacally meditative solo songs which we have heard anew and arranged in various ways.

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