
Christoph Prégardien, Michael GeesBetween life and death - songs and arias | |
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2SACD |
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0608917232424 | CC 72324 | 10-2009 €24.95
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Christoph Prégardien: tenor
Michael Gees: Piano
The protagonist of the new album by Christoph Prégardien and Michael Gees has not yet arrived on the scene at the start and is awaited with the greatest yearning. “Come sweet death! Come blessed rest! Come, lead me in peace, for I am weary of the world, ah come!” Thus the opening of the aria from Bach’s Schemelli Liederbuch, which starts the programme “Between Life and Death”. Death not as the end but as the beginning of a better life – perhaps this message, filled with baroque certainty of salvation and unshakeable quietude, sounds as remote for us today as the afterlife itself. Christoph Prégardien frankly admits to admiring the people of Bach’s time somewhat for their trusting relationship to death: “Today death has been pushed out of our life almost completely, outlawed to the hospital ward and old people’s home. And this is the very reason we have compiled our programme: so that people become a little more aware that death is always in our midst. That we can’t ignore it, but have to accept it.”
Michael Gees: Piano
The protagonist of the new album by Christoph Prégardien and Michael Gees has not yet arrived on the scene at the start and is awaited with the greatest yearning. “Come sweet death! Come blessed rest! Come, lead me in peace, for I am weary of the world, ah come!” Thus the opening of the aria from Bach’s Schemelli Liederbuch, which starts the programme “Between Life and Death”. Death not as the end but as the beginning of a better life – perhaps this message, filled with baroque certainty of salvation and unshakeable quietude, sounds as remote for us today as the afterlife itself. Christoph Prégardien frankly admits to admiring the people of Bach’s time somewhat for their trusting relationship to death: “Today death has been pushed out of our life almost completely, outlawed to the hospital ward and old people’s home. And this is the very reason we have compiled our programme: so that people become a little more aware that death is always in our midst. That we can’t ignore it, but have to accept it.”
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PRESS REVIEWS
'Eine mutige, nachdenklich machende Produktion.' - Sven Kerkhoff.
'een moedige, zorgvuldig gemaakte productie.' - Sven Kerkhoff.
'Schoonheid tussen leven en dood.' - Arjan van Dijk.
'Beauty between life and death.' - Arjan van Dijk.
'Hij maakt mooie klanken, zingt heel bewust.' - Marjolijn Sengers.
'He makes beautiful sounds, sings quite deliberately.' - Marjolijn Sengers.
Er is een verschil als ik een lied vijf of vijftig keer heb gezongen, omdat ik telkens probeer om dat lied , de melodie en de tekst, opnieuw te beleven tegen de achtergrond van mijn levenservaringen. Tertio - maart 2010
There is a difference when I've sung a song five or fifty times, because I always try to revive that song, the melody and the text, in the light of my life experiences. Tertio - March 2010
Het is een staaltje van de hoogste liedkunst. NB - Maart 2010
It is an perfect example of the highest form of the art of singing. NB - March 2010
'een moedige, zorgvuldig gemaakte productie.' - Sven Kerkhoff.
'Schoonheid tussen leven en dood.' - Arjan van Dijk.
'Beauty between life and death.' - Arjan van Dijk.
'Hij maakt mooie klanken, zingt heel bewust.' - Marjolijn Sengers.
'He makes beautiful sounds, sings quite deliberately.' - Marjolijn Sengers.
Er is een verschil als ik een lied vijf of vijftig keer heb gezongen, omdat ik telkens probeer om dat lied , de melodie en de tekst, opnieuw te beleven tegen de achtergrond van mijn levenservaringen. Tertio - maart 2010
There is a difference when I've sung a song five or fifty times, because I always try to revive that song, the melody and the text, in the light of my life experiences. Tertio - March 2010
Het is een staaltje van de hoogste liedkunst. NB - Maart 2010
It is an perfect example of the highest form of the art of singing. NB - March 2010
TRACKS
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CD1
- 1 Johann Sebastian Bach ; Bach: Komm, süßer Tod BWV 478
- 2 Gustav Mahler; Mahler: Symphony no. 2, no.4 - Urlicht
- 3 Franz Schubert; Schubert: Schwanengesang op. 23, no. 3
- 4 Robert Schumann; Schumann: Stirb, Lieb’ und Freud! op. 35, no. 2
- 5 Franz Schubert; Schubert: Auflösung D 807
- 6 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; W.A. Mozart: Abendempfindung KV 523
- 7 Johannes Brahms; Brahms: Feldeinsamkeit op. 86 no. 2
- 8 Johannes Brahms; Brahms: Wie rafft’ ich mich auf op. 32, no. 1
- 9 Carl Loewe; Loewe: Edward Op.1, no. 1
- 10 Carl Maria von Weber; von Weber: Freischütz - Nein, länger trag’ ich nicht die Qualen & Durch die Wälder durch die Auen
CD 2
- 1 Hugo Wolf; Wolf: Mörike-Lieder, no. 39 - Denk’ es, o Seele!
- 2 Franz Schubert; Schubert: Der Jüngling und der Tod D 545
- 3 Franz Schubert; Schubert: Der Tod und das Mädchen D 531
- 4 Hugo Wolf; Wolf: Goethe-Lieder, no. 29 - Anakreons Grab
- 5 Hugo Wolf; Wolf: Eichendorff-lieder, no. 4 - Das Ständchen
- 6 Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy; Mendelssohn-Bartholdy: Neue Liebe op.19, 4
- 7 Carl Loewe; Loewe: Erlkönig op. 1 no. 3
- 8 Hugo Wolf; Wolf: Spanisches Liederbuch - Weltliche Lieder, no. 22 - Dereinst, Gedanke mein
- 9 Peter Tschaikowsky; Tschaikowsky: Eugen Onegin op. 24 - Arie of Lenski
- 10 Franz Schubert; Schubert: Kriegers Ahnung D 957 no. 2
- 11 Gustav Mahler; Mahler: Revelge
- 12 Gustav Mahler; Mahler: Fünf Rückertlieder, no. 4 - Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen
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