Josef Gabriel Rheinberger: Die Wasserfee
The works of the composer Josef Gabriel Rheinberger are mostly unknown today. In the later 19th century in mid-Europe he was quite well-known. Rheinberger’s compositional oeuvre is certainly not restricted to the realm of sacred music. He repeatedly occupied himself with the solo lied, publishing eleven lied collections containing altogether more than 100 songs between 1862 and 1890. In their musical language, Rheinberger’s lieder look for models not among his contemporaries, but in the early 19th century, in Schubert, Mendelssohn and Schumann. Rheinberger’s predominant use of the strophic form hearkens back even further, to the “Second Berlin Lied School” around Carl Friedrich Zelter. But, Where Schubert or Hugo Wolf would have emphasized the dark, despairing aspects of a poem, Rheinberger’s lieder display an almost Haydnesque clarity. Most of the songs recorded on the present CD Die Wasserfee (Water sprite) are first recordings.
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- Die Wasserfee
- Lockung
- Im Talesgrund
- Am Strande
- Hohe Flut
- Im Spätherbst
- Grauen
- Klage
- Amalie
- Die einsame Mühle
- Sehnsucht
- Verloren
- Nachruf
- Wiederfinden
- Letzte Fahrt
- Entschlafen
- Deingedenken
- Goldregen
- Barcarole
- Gestorben
- Vereinsamt
- Winterbild
- Melodie
- Der Königsstrand
Contents
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Preface writer
Felix Loy
| 1963
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Soloist - soprano
Lydia Teuscher
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Soloist - alto
Christine Müller
Christine Müller, mezzo-soprano, studied in Trossingen and Vienna . She is a sought-after concert and lied singer with a broad repertoire who concertizes both at home and abroad. Numerous radio, television and CD productions document her achievements as a singer. She has earned special merit through her discoveries and publications of forgotten musical works, especially in the field of the lied. Personal details
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Soloist - tenor
Andreas Weller
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Soloist - baritone
Klaus Häger
Klaus Häger was born in Wuppertal. After completing his Abitur, he studied music education and later singing with Franz Müller-Heuser, Ingeborg Most and Jürgen Glauß (lied interpretation) in Cologne and Freiburg. He took part in master classes with Sena Jurinac, Ernst Haefliger and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. As a student, he gave lieder recitals and performed in orchestral concerts and numerous oratorios, both in Germany and abroad. Klaus Häger’s artistic activities include radio, television and CD recordings. He is a prizewinner of numerous international competitions, including the “Bundeswettbewerb Gesang” in 1990 in Berlin (1st prize in the category “concert” and two special prizes.) Klaus Häger has participated in several festivals, e.?g., the Salzburg Festival, the Schwetzingen Festival and the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, and has collaborated with renowned conductors. From 1991–1997, Klaus Häger was a member of the ensemble of the Hamburg State Opera, and from 1998–2003, he was a member of the ensemble of the Berlin State Opera. In 2002, he made his debut at the Bayreuth Festival in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg under Christian Thielemann. In 2004, Klaus Häger was appointed professor at the Rostock University of Music and Drama. Personal details
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Soloist - piano
Götz Payer
Reviews
The elegance of the performances supports the refined elegance of the compositions.
Jonathan Woolf, musicweb-international.com, Oktober 2014
[…] eine typisch romantische Entdeckungsreise in Rheinbergers Vokalschaffen – musikalische Naturbeschreibungen, stimmungsvolle Seelenlyrik, die von Lydia Teuscher, Christine Müller, Andreas Weller, Klaus Häger und Götz Payer am Klavier mal tief leidenschaftlich, mal zärtlich intim in klaren Klangfarben zu feinen Miniaturen geformt werden.
Guy Engels, www.pizzicato.lu, 30. Dezember 2013
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