Lieder der Heimat / Songs from Home

Regula Mühlemann

Released on 8/11/2019 by Sony Classical - Sony Music
Main artists: Regula Mühlemann
Genre: Klassiek

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Awarded for his Mozart recital in a Qobuzissime, the soprano Regula Mühleman continues her discographic journey with Sony with an album dedicated to an outstandingly romantic theme. Lieder der Heimat is an ambitiously conceived musical work as it merges masterpieces (Schubert, Liszt), unexpected rarities (Rossini) and rarities (Baumgartner, Frey and the very French Marguerite Roesgen-Champion) around a typically German concept. We could translate Heimat as motherland, but we would then be neglecting the affectionate aspect of the German term where one would wander the German countryside in their youth. The atmosphere and expression of feeling in this lied are very much tied to this privileged place. Schubert produces art where melodic and harmonic sophistication are forgotten in the place of natural poetry that speaks straight from the heart. The album also opens with the sound of the pastoral instrument par excellence, the clarinet, here played by Daniel Ottensamer. Its velvety house-hold fireside sound acts as the opener for Regula Mühlemann. The program unravels without warning as her clear, warm voice settles into the repertoire – in German, French, Italian and even Alemannic. We are all awoken from a dreamlike state as La Vieille Chanson de Guggisberg begins. The singer adjusts her timbre to provide colour thanks to supple inflections and an almost subdued vibrato. This a cappella section starts with one voice that is joined by a second then a third – it’s a shame the booklet doesn’t give more details about the additional participants. Be that as it may, Regula Mülemann forms a perfect duo with the pianist Tatiana Korsunskaya. The latter also plays a solo of a rippling page from Années de pèlerinage: Le lac de Wallenstadt. While Konstantin Timokhine signals a return to Schubert with a stroll-like accompaniment of the sound of a natural alpine horn (Auf dem Strom, D. 943), it is two, more operatic pieces that close the record. Schubert’s La Pastorella al prato wraps things up with clarity and luxury along with one of Rossini’s Soirées musicales, La Pastorella dell’Alpi. The composer of Guillaume Tell (Switzerland again!) offers a somewhat butterfly-minded conclusion to the recording. The incredible Regula Mühlemann suits, unquestionably, all outfits. © Elsa Siffert/Qobuz

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Lieder der Heimat / Songs from Home

Regula Mühlemann

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Der Hirt auf dem Felsen, D. 965, Op. posth. 129

Regula Mühlemann