A Nos Amours

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The playing is of the highest quality, rhythms are crisp, tuning is excellent. A most enjoyable programme… — Gramophone Magazine, November 2008

Release Date: 28th Aug 2008
Catalogue No: AM137
Label: Ambroisie
Length: 67 minutes

Strauss, J, II: Rosen aus dem Süden, Op. 388

Work length9:33

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Diabolicus
Dietrich Henschel

Wagner: Siegfried Idyll

Work length17:01

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Diabolicus
Dietrich Henschel

Siegfried Idyll, Op. 103

Track length17:01

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Strauss, J, II: Wein, Weib und Gesang! (Wine, Woman and Song!), Op. 333 (arr. A. Berg)

Work length12:35

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Diabolicus
Dietrich Henschel

Schubert: Ständchen 'Horch! Horch! die Lerch!', D889

Work length3:50

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Diabolicus
Dietrich Henschel

Standchen, D. 889, "Hark, hark, the lark" ("Horch, horch! die Lerch") (arr. A. Schoenberg)

Track length3:50

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Strauss, J, II: Kaiser-Walzer, Op. 437

Work length12:22

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Diabolicus
Dietrich Henschel

Denza: Funiculi - Funicula (arr. A. Schoenberg)

Work length2:42

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Diabolicus
Dietrich Henschel

Busoni: Berseuse elegiaque, Op. 42 (arr. E. Stein)

Work length9:39

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Diabolicus
Dietrich Henschel

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The fascinating programme of waltzes and other short pieces chosen for this new recording by the chamber ensemble Diabolicus and its renowned musical director Dietrich Henschel has been given the title “A Nos Amours”, and endeavours to musically represent the full range of emotions that cover life from birth till death. There is the love of Richard Wagner for his wife Cosima and for their newborn son in the Siegfried Idyll, the love of a son for his dead mother in the Busoni’s touching lullaby, the Berceuse élégaique, as well as the joy of life and love so perfectly portrayed in the waltzes of Johann Strauss the younger. The Schubert lied Ständchen and the famous Neopolitan song Funiculì-Funiculà by Luigi Denza have been included to present the more light-hearted aspect of these “amours”. Apart from the Wagner piece, the music is here performed in transcriptions for chamber groups by Arnold Schoenberg and his circle of friends and pupils.

The chamber ensemble Diabolicus was formed in 2001 with a core of soloists from the Orchestre de Paris. The ensemble can be expanded as required, bringing together musical personalities encountered in a variety of extra-orchestral collaborations. In 2004 and 2005, Diabolicus swelled its number to thirty-five musicians for two performances at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, with Dietrich Henschel and Menahem Pressler respectively. With Dietrich Henschel, their working relationship did not involve the notion of an ensemble directed by a conductor, but was immediately established on the basis of a friendly collaboration in music.

Dietrich Henschel is acknowledged as one of today’s foremost interpreters of the lied. He is invited all over the world with the pianists Fritz Schwinghammer, Helmut Deutsch and Michael Schäfer. His substantial discography features lieder and song cycles by Mahler, Wolf, Schubert, Korngold, and Beethoven, as well as a complete recording of Busoni’s Doktor Faust (winner of a Grammy Award). His conducting career has taken flight since his triumph at the Châtelet in 2004 in a series of concerts with the ensemble Diabolicus, with which he has subsequently worked on a regular basis.

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November 2008

The playing is of the highest quality, rhythms are crisp, tuning is excellent. A most enjoyable programme…

A Nos Amours

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