Daniel Heide & Patrick Grahl - Dichterliebe (2020) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Even more than in Beethoven’s case, Mendelssohn’s Lieder were intended for performance in the salons of the prosperous bourgeoisie: a convivial circle of highly qualified connoisseurs who shared the same outlook, and often a similar financial status.

Those members of the upper middle classes were the musical link and the sociological crossroads between Hausmusik and the concert hall. Mendelssohn often wrote songs as gifts for the friends he was visiting, frequently as settings of their own texts: the considerable technical challenges they contained still needed to be manageable for members of those circles.

Thanks to their songlike or folklike character, certain works by Mendelssohn (for instance from oratorios such as Elijah ) became true classics, even across broad swaths of the population. The narrower the compositional framework in his songs, the more noteworthy were Mendelssohn’s divergences: he often unobtrusively proved his mastery by varying upon a strict form (extending phrases or inserting small elements of surprise in strophic songs), thus providing variety, excitement, and ironic musical fractures.

Robert Schumann’s Lied output was probably more crucial for his existence than in Mendelssohn’s case, and likewise more significant due to the artistic dialogue he held with his wife Clara: songs thus took up a greater place in his life. Composed in Leipzig in 1840 (Schumann’s well-known “year of songs”), Dichterliebe Op. 48 on texts by Heinrich Heine offers an excellent example of Schumann’s use of a self-contained episode with a homogeneous poetic idea as a point of departure for an entire song cycle.

Thus he not only rearranged the order of Heine’s poems from the Lyric Intermezzo (published in 1827 as part of Das Buch der Lieder ), but chose the title Dichterliebe (“The Love of a Poet”) himself. Here the piano goes far beyond pure instrumental accompaniment: instead of merely illustrating the text, it provides its own dimension of interpretation as a partner on equal standing with the voice, both in terms of extension as well in terms of artistic niveau.

TRACKLIST

1. Daniel Heide & Patrick Grahl - An die ferne Geliebte, Op. 98
2. Daniel Heide & Patrick Grahl - Six Songs, Op. 19A: No. 5. Gruß
3. Daniel Heide & Patrick Grahl - Three Songs, Op. 84: No. 2. Herbstlied
4. Daniel Heide & Patrick Grahl - Six Songs, Op. 71: No. 4. Schilflied
5. Daniel Heide & Patrick Grahl - Six Gesaenge, Op. 86: No. 5. Der Mond
6. Daniel Heide & Patrick Grahl - Six Gesaenge, Op. 34: No. 6. Reiselied
7. Daniel Heide & Patrick Grahl - Six Gesaenge, Op. 34: No. 2. Auf Flügeln des Gesanges
8. Daniel Heide & Patrick Grahl - Six Songs, Op. 57: No. 2. Venezianisches Gondellied
9. Daniel Heide & Patrick Grahl - Six Songs, Op. 57: No. 6. Wanderlied
10. Daniel Heide & Patrick Grahl - Six Songs, Op. 71: No. 6. Nachtlied
11. Daniel Heide & Patrick Grahl - Dichterliebe, Op. 48: No. 1. Im wunderschönen Monat Mai
12. Daniel Heide & Patrick Grahl - Dichterliebe, Op. 48: No. 2. Aus meinen tränen spriessen
13. Daniel Heide & Patrick Grahl - Dichterliebe, Op. 48: No. 3. Die Rose, die Lilie, die Taube
14. Daniel Heide & Patrick Grahl - Dichterliebe, Op. 48: No. 4. Wenn ich in deine Augen seh'
15. Daniel Heide & Patrick Grahl - Dichterliebe, Op. 48: No. 5. Ich will meine Seele tauchen
16. Daniel Heide & Patrick Grahl - Dichterliebe, Op. 48: No. 6. Im Rhein, im heiligen Strome
17. Daniel Heide & Patrick Grahl - Dichterliebe, Op. 48: No. 7. Ich grolle nicht
18. Daniel Heide & Patrick Grahl - Dichterliebe, Op. 48: No. 8. Und wüsstens die Blumen, die kleinen
19. Daniel Heide & Patrick Grahl - Dichterliebe, Op. 48: No. 9. Das ist ein Flöten und Geigen
20. Daniel Heide & Patrick Grahl - Dichterliebe, Op. 48: No. 10. Hör ich das Liedc hen klingen
21. Daniel Heide & Patrick Grahl - Dichterliebe, Op. 48: No. 11. Ein Jüngling liebt ein Mädchen
22. Daniel Heide & Patrick Grahl - Dichterliebe, Op. 48: No. 12. Am leuchtenden Sommermorgen
23. Daniel Heide & Patrick Grahl - Dichterliebe, Op. 48: No. 13. Ich hab' im Traum geweinet
24. Daniel Heide & Patrick Grahl - Dichterliebe, Op. 48: No. 14. Allnächtliche im Truume
25. Daniel Heide & Patrick Grahl - Dichterliebe, Op. 48: No. 15. Aus alten Märchen
26. Daniel Heide & Patrick Grahl - Dichterliebe, Op. 48: No.. 16 Die alten, bösen Lieder
27. Daniel Heide & Patrick Grahl - Liederkreis, Op. 39: No. 5. Mondnacht



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