Liszt: Freudvoll Und Leidvoll

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At its most larger-than-life, a thrilling recording not for the faint-hearted; but it’s also a heart-on-sleeve reminder of Liszt’s abiding versatility. — BBC Music Magazine, November 2021, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

Release Date: 17th Sep 2021
Catalogue No: 19439892602
Label: Sony
Length: 80 minutes

Presto Recording of the Week

17th September 2021
Diapason d’Or

October 2021

Nouveauté
Presto Recordings of the Year

Finalist 2021
International Classical Music Awards

2022

Nominated - Vocal
Opus Klassik

2022

Male Singer of the Year

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Liszt: Vergiftet sind meine Lieder, S.289

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Jonas Kaufmann (tenor), Helmut Deutsch (piano)

Liszt: Freudvoll und leidvoll, S.280

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Jonas Kaufmann (tenor), Helmut Deutsch (piano)

Liszt: Freudvoll und leidvoll (1st Setting, 2nd Version), S280 / 2

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Jonas Kaufmann (tenor), Helmut Deutsch (piano)

Liszt: Es war ein König in Thule, S.278

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Jonas Kaufmann (tenor), Helmut Deutsch (piano)

Liszt: Im Rhein, im schönen Strome (2nd version), S272 / 2

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Jonas Kaufmann (tenor), Helmut Deutsch (piano)

Liszt: Die Lorelei

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Jonas Kaufmann (tenor), Helmut Deutsch (piano)

Liszt: Ihr Glocken von Marling, S.328

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Jonas Kaufmann (tenor), Helmut Deutsch (piano)

Liszt: Die drei Zigeuner, S.320

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Jonas Kaufmann (tenor), Helmut Deutsch (piano)

Liszt: Sonetti di Petrarca (3) for voice & piano, S270

Work length18:10

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Jonas Kaufmann (tenor), Helmut Deutsch (piano)

Benedetto sia 'l giorno (Sonetto 47)

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Pace non trovo (Sonetto 104)

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I' vidi in terra angelici costumi (Sonetto 123)

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Liszt: Es muss ein Wunderbares sein, S. 314

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Jonas Kaufmann (tenor), Helmut Deutsch (piano)

Liszt: O Lieb so lang du lieben kannst (2nd version), S298 / 2

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Jonas Kaufmann (tenor), Helmut Deutsch (piano)

Liszt: Die stille Wasserrose, S321

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Jonas Kaufmann (tenor), Helmut Deutsch (piano)

Liszt: Ein Fichtenbaum steht einsam, S309

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Jonas Kaufmann (tenor), Helmut Deutsch (piano)

Liszt: Es rauschen die Winde, S294

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Jonas Kaufmann (tenor), Helmut Deutsch (piano)

Liszt: Ich möchte hingehn, S.296

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Jonas Kaufmann (tenor), Helmut Deutsch (piano)

Liszt: Der du von dem Himmel bist (Goethe), S279

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Jonas Kaufmann (tenor), Helmut Deutsch (piano)

Liszt: Der du von dem Himmel bist, S279 (3rd version)

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Liszt: Über allen Gipfeln ist Ruh (Wandrers Nachtlied II), S.306

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Jonas Kaufmann (tenor), Helmut Deutsch (piano)

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Recording of the Week, Liszt from Jonas Kaufmann and Helmut Deutsch

17th September 2021

The long-term Lieder partners are absolutely in their element on a recital which delivers both drama and delicacy in spades.

After their album Selige Stunde, Jonas Kaufmann and Helmut Deutsch used the lockdown necessitated by the coronavirus pandemic, to make a further series of recordings. Their second album of songs is devoted to Franz Liszt, a composer for whom both feel a special affinity and whose music has long featured in their shared concert career.

Together with a group of six other songs including Vergiftet sind meine Lieder, Der König von Thule and Ihr Glocken von Marling, the demanding Petrarch Sonnets have been a part of Jonas Kaufmann’s repertory for many years, while Loreley, O lieb, solang du lieben kannst and Es muss ein Wunderbares sein are among his regular encores. As he himself explains, the process of studying lesser-known “jewels” such as Goethe’s eponymous Freudvoll und leidvoll, two versions of which are heard here, has been a period of intense discovery, during which time he has learnt to value these songs more than ever:

'I’m very pleased that our enforced rest made this album possible – under normal circumstances it would probably not have come into existence quite so quickly. As a result we were able to record not only those Liszt songs that we had already tried out in the concert hall but also a number of others that until now have been overshadowed by Liszt’s “great hits”. Among them, pride of place goes to Die stille Wasserrose, which I find more beautiful the more often I hear it. I’m very grateful to Helmut for introducing me to these songs, and I think there will be many listeners who share my delight in these discoveries.'

For Helmut Deutsch Liszt was one of the great idols of his youth, alongside Elizabeth Taylor and Herbert von Karajan:

'Thanks to these jewels, Liszt deserves to occupy a leading place in the history of the art song, and yet even today he is denied this status. It is a source of tremendous pleasure for me that I have been able to share my enthusiasm with Jonas Kaufmann and persuade him to record an entire album with me.'

Reviews

November 2021

At its most larger-than-life, a thrilling recording not for the faint-hearted; but it’s also a heart-on-sleeve reminder of Liszt’s abiding versatility.

March/April 2022

Kaufmann’s variety of tone and timbre helps to carry a recital in which many songs will be unknown to general listeners. Here the delights are for aficionados and experienced collectors.

17th September 2021

The Petrarch Sonnets find Kaufmann in absolute peak vocal form, cresting the top Cs with ease…The macabre, unsettling Die drei Zigeuner is another real highlight, with Kaufmann characterising the three gypsies quite brilliantly, and Deutsch working uncanny magic in the long, quasi-improvisatory introduction…this is quite the finest recording Kaufmann’s made for Sony, and a testament to one of the greatest Lieder partnerships of our time.

26th September 2021

His immaculate German diction and idiomatic Italian are allied to musicianship that often takes the breath away, and the programme climaxes in death-wish repose: Liszt’s setting of Goethe’s Über allen Gipfeln ist Ruh, inwardly and beautifully sung.

17th September 2021

Kaufmann’s album is immensely enjoyable, gusting along on the singer’s energy, Deutsch’s care over detail and the constant surprises of Liszt’s music, served up in a clear and bouncy recording.

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