Patrizia Ciofi & Rosaria Pellicanò - Lieder e Songs (1997/2023) [Official Digital Download 24/88]

The festival "Suoni e Colori in Toscana" (Sounds and Colours in Tuscany) has, during the past years, become an important event. It has gained the unconditional approval of music lovers for the originality of its contents and for the quality of the music it offers.

The album we are proposing, fully demonstrates our effort to highlight this cultural event. This is part of a vaster project to promote our area which is renouned for its many values and talents.

I wish to thank the publisher Fonè for his valuable and competent work, and I hope that this event will prove to be the first of many more. (Massimo Settimelli, Mayor of Rignano sull'Arno)

While strolling in a garden you can make a beautiful bouquet by picking any of its endless variety of flowers. This is exactly what the Lieder anthology did. It picked music coming from various musical and poetic sources born either as individual or as being part of a musical cycle and above all coming from different cultural times (even if this chronological period spans only half a century). What is exactly the Lied? It can be truly qualified as the overtly idealized expression of a state of being characterized by a regular melodic structure based on popular songs. One can thus achieve a definition which could, with referral to the historical period dealt with, be included in a good dictionary. But the Lied is above all something different. Its text, either by mentioning joy or sorrow, through a picture, an image of nature or daily life, achieves a fleeting tie with human existence. It lasts only an instant, it can vanish when mentioned or be changed by different subsequent moods. A timeless wish, longing for what was barely perceived or what never was.

Let's look at the titles of this anthology. We find three of the best Lieder by Mozart, all dated 1787. They all show an ante litteram approach to the expressive dimension which can itself be defined romantic. They are a leading path in the itinerary of the Lied because they mark the transition between the humble sphere of home usage and the splendour of artistic music. They are pieces that are not always based on texts of high poetic content but the music makes the miracle and it makes them become highly passionate like Abendemphindung (a foreboding sunset). Just like the touching love song for Cloe, in which the opera air still floats with delicate movements. Till the Trennungslied which surges to remind how oblivion can cancel in a few moments what love has given for years.

Tracklist:
01. Mozart: Abendempfindung
02. Mozart: An Chloe
03. Mozart: Trennungslied
04. Schubert: Standchen
05. Schubert: Gretchen am Spinnrade
06. Schumann: Mondnacht
07. Schumann: Der Nussbaum
08. Schumann: Ich grollenicht
09. Gershwin: Someone to watch over me
10. Gershwin: I got rhythm
11. Gershwin: The man I love
12. Gershwin: Summertime
13. Bernstein: West Side Story, Somewhere
14. Bernstein: West Side Story, Maria
15. Bernstein: West Side Story, Tonight
16. Bernstein: Ich grollenicht


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