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Christian Immler, Georges Starobinski - Im Schonen Strome: Heine Lieder - Robert Schumann, Franz Liszt, Robert Franz (2015)

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Christian Immler, Georges Starobinski - Im Schonen Strome: Heine Lieder - Robert Schumann, Franz Liszt, Robert Franz (2015)

Im Schönen Strome: Heine Lieder - Songs by Robert Schumann, Franz Liszt, Robert Franz (2015)
Christian Immler (baritone), Georges Starobinski (piano)

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 267 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 160 Mb | Scans included
Genre: Classical, Vocal | Label: BIS | # BIS-SACD-2143 | Time: 01:07:35

Although highly productive and respected in his lifetime as a composer of Lieder, Robert Franz (1815–92) has since become a peripheral figure in music history. One reason may be that he avoids dramatic contrasts and instead aims at an emotional ambiguity: ‘My representation of joy is always tinged with melancholy, whilst that of suffering is always accompanied by an exquisite sensation of losing oneself’, he once wrote to Liszt. As a consequence his music appeals to those who are able ‘to admire the nuances of a charcoal drawing without longing for the colours of a painting’, to quote from Georges Starobinski’s liner notes to this recording. As they began to explore the songs of Franz, Starobinski and the baritone Christian Immler were moved by their findings to devise a programme which includes 23 of the composer’s often quite brief songs. Using the poet Heinrich Heine as their guiding star, they present these – all Heine settings but from different opus groups – in the form of two ‘imagined’ song cycles. These are framed by further settings of Heine poems – by Schumann and Liszt, who were both staunch supporters of Robert Franz – providing not only contrast, but also the opportunity to discover how these three very different artistic temperaments treated the same material: some poems appear in more than one setting, notably Morgens steh’ ich auf und frage and Im Rhein. The Rhine, which played such an important role in the Romantic imagination and in Heine’s poetry, also runs through the programme, from Schumann’s celebrated song cycle Liederkreis, Op.24, to Liszt’s dramatic scena Die Loreley, and has given name to this album: Im schönen Strome (‘In the fair river’).

Though a neglected figure today, Robert Franz (1815-92) was a prolific song composer who rarely stepped outside his specialisation. Not as generously gifted nor as imaginative as the contemporaries linked with him on this disc, he was nevertheless admired by both: in 1843 Schumann arranged for the publication of Franz’s first set of songs, while Liszt later made piano transcriptions of a number of them, and even wrote a book about him. And with good reason: there’s a fluency and skill to his writing, and occasionally a surprising depth to works that are in almost all cases miniatures.

This disc collects together, almost as if in cycles, songs by Franz based on poems by Heinrich Heine, settings of whom account for about one quarter of his output. They stand up well in comparison with Schumann’s Op. 24 Liederkreis (also setting Heine) and a clutch of Liszt songs (ditto): Franz himself seems to have had little interest in the song-cycle as such.

The attractive light baritone of Christian Immler is nicely offset by the clean textures and musical sensitivity of pianist Georges Starobinski, both finely balanced and captured in lucid sonics; the collection as a whole might identify the difference between the talent of Franz and the genius of Liszt and Schumann, but the performers devote the same careful attention to the achievements of all three.

Review by George Hall, BBC Music Magazine

Christian Immler, Georges Starobinski - Im Schonen Strome: Heine Lieder - Robert Schumann, Franz Liszt, Robert Franz (2015)



Christian Immler, Georges Starobinski - Im Schonen Strome: Heine Lieder - Robert Schumann, Franz Liszt, Robert Franz (2015)



Tracklist:

Robert Schumann (1810–1856)
Liederkreis, Op.24 (1840)
01. 1. Morgens steh' ich auf und frage (00:57)
02. 2. Es treibt mich hin, es treibt mich her (01:15)
03. 3. Ich wandelte unter den Bäumen (03:15)
04. 4. Lieb' Liebchen (00:48)
05. 5. Schöne Wiege meiner Leiden (03:44)
06. 6. Warte, warte, wilder Schiffmann (01:57)
07. 7. Berg' und Burgen schau'n herunter (03:34)
08. 8. Anfangs wollt' ich fast verzagen (00:46)
09. 9. Mit Myrten und Rosen (04:00)

Robert Franz (1815–1892)
10. Im wunderschönen Monat Mai, Op.25 No.5 (01:28)
11. Mädchen mit dem roten Mündchen, Op.5 No.5 (01:00)
12. Die blauen Frühlingsaugen, Op.20 No.1 (01:08)
13. Im Rhein, im heiligen Strome, Op.18 No.2 (01:42)
14. Ich will meine Seele tauchen, Op.43 No.4 (00:47)
15. Wenn ich auf dem Lager liege, Op.37 No.6 (01:25)
16. Das ist ein Brausen und Heulen, Op.8 No.4 (00:56)
17. Allnächtlich im Traume, Op.9 No.4 (01:33)
18. Kommt feins Liebchen heut'? Op.25 No.4 (01:00)
19. Wandl' ich in dem Wald des Abends, Op.39 No.4 (01:15)
20. Verfehlte Liebe, Op.20 No.3 (01:09)
21. Am leuchtenden Sommermorgen, Op.11 No.2 (01:30)
22. Ich hab' im Traum geweinet, Op.25 No.3 (01:11)
23. Lieb' Liebchen legs Händchen, Op.17 No.3 (00:49)
24. Aus meinen grossen Schmerzen, Op.5 No.1 (01:09)
25. Mit schwarzen Segeln, Op.18 No.6 (00:57)
26. Meerfahrt, Op.18 No.4 (01:24)
27. Auf dem Meere (Aus den Himmelsaugen droben), Op.5 No.3 (00:58)
28. Auf dem Meere (Es träumte mir), Op.11 No.5 (02:16)
29. Auf dem Meere (An die bretternde Schiffswand), Op.25 No.6 (01:15)
30. Auf dem Meere (An die blaue Himmelsdecke), Op.6 No.3 (01:42)
31. Auf dem Meere (Eingewiegt von Meereswellen), Op.9 No.6 (02:17)
32. Das Meer erstrahlt im Sonnenschein, Op.39 No.3 (01:22)

Franz Liszt (1811–1886)
33. Im Rhein, S.272 (03:11)
34. Morgens steh' ich auf und frage, S.290 (02:08)
35. Anfangs wollt' ich fast verzagen, S.311 (01:51)
36. Ein Fichtenbaum steht einsam, S.309 (02:54)
37. Die Loreley, S.273 (06:42)


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DR13 -6.76 dB -24.20 dB 1:08 12-Franz: Die blauen Frühlingsaugen, Op.20 No.1
DR13 -5.86 dB -27.00 dB 1:43 13-Franz: Im Rhein, im heiligen Strome, Op.18 No.2
DR13 -2.73 dB -20.20 dB 0:48 14-Franz: Ich will meine Seele tauchen, Op.43 No.4
DR13 -6.52 dB -25.34 dB 1:26 15-Franz: Wenn ich auf dem Lager liege, Op.37 No.6
DR13 -1.62 dB -20.87 dB 0:56 16-Franz: Das ist ein Brausen und Heulen, Op.8 No.4
DR12 -3.53 dB -23.50 dB 1:34 17-Franz: Allnächtlich im Traume, Op.9 No.4
DR13 -3.93 dB -24.31 dB 1:00 18-Franz: Kommt feins Liebchen heut'? Op.25 No.4
DR13 -7.44 dB -25.08 dB 1:15 19-Franz: Wandl' ich in dem Wald des Abends, Op.39 No.4
DR14 -3.49 dB -23.74 dB 1:10 20-Franz: Verfehlte Liebe, Op.20 No.3
DR14 -8.42 dB -28.74 dB 1:31 21-Franz: Am leuchtenden Sommermorgen, Op.11 No.2
DR14 -1.33 dB -21.13 dB 1:12 22-Franz: Ich hab' im Traum geweinet, Op.25 No.3
DR12 -6.46 dB -24.75 dB 0:50 23-Franz: Lieb' Liebchen legs Händchen, Op.17 No.3
DR13 -7.36 dB -26.68 dB 1:10 24-Franz: Aus meinen grossen Schmerzen, Op.5 No.1
DR13 -4.88 dB -21.95 dB 0:58 25-Franz: Mit schwarzen Segeln, Op.18 No.6
DR14 -8.74 dB -28.85 dB 1:24 26-Franz: Meerfahrt, Op.18 No.4
DR12 -7.39 dB -24.30 dB 0:59 27-Franz: Auf dem Meere (Aus den Himmelsaugen droben), Op.5 No.3
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DR11 -5.92 dB -24.85 dB 1:23 32-Franz: Das Meer erstrahlt im Sonnenschein, Op.39 No.3
DR14 -1.93 dB -24.83 dB 3:11 33-Liszt: Im Rhein, S.272
DR13 -4.12 dB -26.05 dB 2:08 34-Liszt: Morgens steh' ich auf und frage, S.290
DR12 -2.56 dB -23.92 dB 1:52 35-Liszt: Anfangs wollt' ich fast verzagen, S.311
DR13 -2.85 dB -23.35 dB 2:55 36-Liszt: Ein Fichtenbaum steht einsam, S.309
DR15 -3.00 dB -23.88 dB 6:43 37-Liszt: Die Loreley, S.273
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Official DR value: DR13

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Christian Immler, Georges Starobinski - Im Schonen Strome: Heine Lieder - Robert Schumann, Franz Liszt, Robert Franz (2015)

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