New Release! Matthias Goerne, Thomas Larcher & Ensemble Resonanz - Hanns Eisler: Ernste Gesänge, Lieder mit Klavier. From 1920s Vienna and the Berlin of the Weimar Republic to emigration to the USA, then back to Vienna after the defeat of Nazism, to end his days in East Berlin: Hanns Eisler’s life was one long exile against the backcloth of the artistic, technical, and political revolutions of the 20th century. Distance, irony, and melancholy are the aesthetic corollaries that characterise the lieder presented here, their atmosphere often evoking the despair of those dark times. The early piano sonata gained the young Eisler an admiration that has never dimmed since. „Matthias Goerne offers an excellent new disc of songs by Hanns Eisler. After Kaufmann and Verdis operatic largesse, Goerne and Eisler prove you can also thrillingly expressive wielding a delicate whisper, a pungent shout, and ironys stiletto heel. (Geoff Brown, The Times) It is a fascinating and hugely rewarding disc. (Andrew Clements, The Guardian), Listening tip! Available in FLAC 96 kHz.
Posted on: Tue, 12 Nov 2013 21:30:23 +0000
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