Friedrich Theodor Fröhlich: Lieder & Elegies

Release Date: 16th Jun 2023
Catalogue No: ROP6244
Label: Rondeau

International Classical Music Awards

2024

Nominated - Vocal Music

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Fröhlich, F T: Deutsche Canzonetten (8), Op. 3

Klaus Mertens (bass-baritone), Volodymyr Lavrynenko (piano)

Excerpt, Fröhlich, F T: Elegien fur das Pianoforte, Op. 15

Klaus Mertens (bass-baritone), Volodymyr Lavrynenko (piano)

Fröhlich, F T: Deklamatorische Gesange

Klaus Mertens (bass-baritone), Volodymyr Lavrynenko (piano)

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Friedrich Theodor Frohlich, born in Brugg in 1803, is probably the most important Early Romantic composer in Switzerland. However, he shares with many of his colleagues the fate of being forgotten after his death in 1836. Today, more than 700 works are kept in the manuscript archive of the Basel University Library. Thanks to the International Friedrich Theodor Frohlich Society based in Brugg, this legacy has been rediscovered since 2017, edited piece by piece and performed in concerts. Bass-baritone Klaus Mertens follows in Frohlich's footsteps and, together with lied pianist Volodymyr Lavrynenko, takes an exciting look at Frohlich's extensive lied oeuvre: Eight Canzonettas on poems by Goethe and Uhland, among others, as well as the Declamatory Songs, in which the performers feel the composer's emotional vibrations, are framed by three elegies for solo piano with a haunting tonal language and sometimes astonishing twists.

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