Hidden Treasure: Hans Gál's unpublished Lieder

This is a treasure-trove of songs in the tradition of Richard Strauss, melodically radiant and full of sensitivity to atmosphere...Immler is ideally suited to them, with expansive, radiant tone... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2021, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 29th Jan 2021
Catalogue No: BIS2543
Label: BIS
Length: 72 minutes

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April 2021

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Gál, H: Lady Rosa

Work length1:58

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Christian Immler (bass-baritone), Helmut Deutsch (piano)

Gál, H: Nacht

Work length2:47

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Christian Immler (bass-baritone), Helmut Deutsch (piano)

Gál, H: Nachts in der Kajüte No. 1

Work length2:31

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Christian Immler (bass-baritone), Helmut Deutsch (piano)

Gál, H: Nachts in der Kajüte No. 2

Work length2:10

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Christian Immler (bass-baritone), Helmut Deutsch (piano)

Gál, H: Nachts in der Kajüte No. 3

Work length2:38

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Christian Immler (bass-baritone), Helmut Deutsch (piano)

Gál, H: Sternenzwiesprach

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Christian Immler (bass-baritone), Helmut Deutsch (piano)

Gál, H: Denk' es o Seele

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Christian Immler (bass-baritone), Helmut Deutsch (piano)

Gál, H: Maimond

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Christian Immler (bass-baritone), Helmut Deutsch (piano)

Gál, H: Minnelied

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Christian Immler (bass-baritone), Helmut Deutsch (piano)

Gál, H: Morgengebet

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Christian Immler (bass-baritone), Helmut Deutsch (piano)

Gál, H: Dämmerstunde

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Christian Immler (bass-baritone), Helmut Deutsch (piano)

Gál, H: Glaube nur!

Work length1:34

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Christian Immler (bass-baritone), Helmut Deutsch (piano)

Gál, H: Liebesmüde

Work length2:52

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Christian Immler (bass-baritone), Helmut Deutsch (piano)

Gál, H: Eine gantz neu Schelmweys

Work length3:17

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Christian Immler (bass-baritone), Helmut Deutsch (piano)

Gál, H: Waldseligkeit

Work length1:56

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Christian Immler (bass-baritone), Helmut Deutsch (piano)

Gál, H: Der Wolkenbaum

Work length2:09

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Christian Immler (bass-baritone), Helmut Deutsch (piano)

Gál, H: Novembertag

Work length2:35

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Christian Immler (bass-baritone), Helmut Deutsch (piano)

Gál, H: Welch ein Schweigen

Work length3:02

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Christian Immler (bass-baritone), Helmut Deutsch (piano)

Gál, H: Nachtstürme

Work length1:28

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Christian Immler (bass-baritone), Helmut Deutsch (piano)

Gál, H: Blumenlied

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Christian Immler (bass-baritone), Helmut Deutsch (piano)

Gál, H: Schäferlied

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Christian Immler (bass-baritone), Helmut Deutsch (piano)

Gál, H: Abendlied

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Christian Immler (bass-baritone), Helmut Deutsch (piano)

Gál, H: Der böse tag

Work length1:31

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Christian Immler (bass-baritone), Helmut Deutsch (piano)

Gál, H: Frag nicht!

Work length2:22

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Christian Immler (bass-baritone), Helmut Deutsch (piano)

Gál, H: Rücknahme

Work length2:10

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Christian Immler (bass-baritone), Helmut Deutsch (piano)

Gál, H: Abendgespräch

Work length1:55

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Christian Immler (bass-baritone), Helmut Deutsch (piano)

Gál, H: Fünf Melodien (Five Songs) for medium voice and piano, Op.33

Work length13:31

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Christian Immler (bass-baritone), Helmut Deutsch (piano)

No. 1, Vergängliches

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No. 2, Der Wiesenbach

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No. 3, Vöglein Schwermut

Track length3:57

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No. 4, Drei Prinzessinnen (Version for Voice & Piano)

Track length2:53

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No. 5, Abend auf dem Fluss (Version for Voice & Piano)

Track length2:33

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Interview, Christian Immler on Hans Gál

10th February 2021

The German bass-baritone talks to Katherine about Hidden Treasures (out now on BIS), featuring world premiere recordings of twenty-six songs which the Austrian-born composer 'laid aside'.

Growing up in Vienna, with its great Lied tradition, Hans Gál had written about 100 songs before leaving secondary school. He later destroyed them, along with all his other works composed prior to 1910, but between 1910 and 1921 he wrote many more. Except for the five songs of Op. 33, these were never published, and Gál himself would later refer to them as ‘laid aside’. Many of these songs were publicly performed at the time, however, often with the composer at the piano. Through the initiative of Christian Immler and Helmut Deutsch, 26 of the ‘laid-aside’ songs are now being made available to a modern audience. A labour of love for the performers, the project has had the support of the composer’s family – in fact the recording was produced by Hans Gál’s grandson, Simon Fox-Gál. The songs provide a missing link in Gál’s creative development, and show him engaging with a wide variety of poets, extending back from the twelfthcentury (Walther von der Vogelweide) to contemporaries, such as Hermann Hesse and Richard Dehmel, by way of the classics (Heine, Mörike). Reflecting a taste for the exotic which was fashionable at the time, the selection also includes settings of poems by Rabindranath Tagore. The performers close their recital with the Op. 33 set, the only songs that Hans Gál did publish during his long career.

Reviews

April 2021

This is a treasure-trove of songs in the tradition of Richard Strauss, melodically radiant and full of sensitivity to atmosphere...Immler is ideally suited to them, with expansive, radiant tone and splendid diction; Helmut Deutsch sets his peerless pianism at the disposal of composer and singer.

September/October 2021

The vast majority of these songs are at a high level of imagination and demonstrate an original compositional voice that deserves to be better known.

February 2021

Listeners who do not arrive anticipating a successor to Wolf or a sequel to Mahler’s Rückert Lieder will not be disappointed…[Immler and Deutsch's] equably balanced partnership offers us the full measure of these lieder, their disquiet and lopsided poetry.

January 2021

This beautifully structured and executed recital is clearly a labour of love on the part of both artists, who were granted access to Gál’s manuscripts by his family and have selected twenty-six little gems which match (and in some cases even surpass) the quality and invention of the Op. 33 songs which Gál chose to publish. The disconcertingly pragmatic depictions of disappointed love in Liebesmüde and Rücknahme are particularly striking, whilst the cabin-feverish Novembertag resonates keenly in these locked-down times.

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