Jared Schwartz & Mary Dibbern - Liszt: Songs for Bass Voice & Piano (2017)

Throughout his long career Liszt s songs perhaps the most neglected part of his enormous output took a radical approach to form: he eschewed convention in his search for a sincere musical response to each text. His free-spirited creativity meant that a single song would often call on a range of stylistic devices, among them bel canto vocal lines, unaccompanied recitative, orchestrally conceived piano textures and audacious harmonic procedures. This first recording of his songs by a bass voice brings out both the power and poetry of Liszt s remarkable imagination.

Jared Schwartz - bass
Mary Dibbern - piano

Tracklist:
1 Weimars Volkslied, S. 313
2 3 Sonetti di Petrarca, S. 270b: No. 2, Pace non trovo
3 Des Tages laute Stimmen schweigen, S. 337
4 J'ai perdu ma force et ma vie, S. 327
5 Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher, S. 293/2
6 Sei still, S. 330
7 Le juif errant, S. 300
8 Über allen Gipfeln ist Ruh, S. 306/2
9 O lieb so lang du lieben kannst, S. 298/2
10 Du bist wie eine Blume, S. 287/2
11 Go Not, Happy Day, S. 335
12 Weimars Toten, S. 303