Lieder (Berg, Schumann, Wolf, Shostakovich, Brahms)

Matthias Goerne - Daniil Trifonov

Released on 6/10/22 by Deutsche Grammophon (DG)
Main artists: Matthias Goerne Daniil Trifonov
Genre: Classical

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Matthias Goerne not only performs at the highest level as a baritone himself, but his piano accompaniments also rank among the Champions League of classical music. For his first album, which was dedicated to Beethoven songs, he brought Jan Lisiecki on board. This was followed by the album Abendrot with melodies by Wagner and Strauss, among others, together with the young talent Seong-Jin Cho. Now we may experience the baritone in duo with the world-class Russian pianist Daniil Trifonov, presenting us with a metaphysical program of Berg, Schumann, Wolf, Shostakovich and Brahms.

The combination of music and poetry was brought to a climax in the form of the Romantic art song by Franz Schubert. The composers presented here build on this tradition, and despite the wide, temporal span of their publications - there are 135 years between Schumann's Dichterliebe and Shostakovich's Michelangelo Suite - the closeness and significance to the text and its authors is equally evident in all of them. Schumann's Dichterliebe is probably one of the best examples of this: the setting of Heinrich Heine's texts brings together two masters of Romanticism who could not be better interpreted by Goerne and Trifonov. Themes of impossible love and human suffering are unfolded through extremes in the monologue as well as the music, with Goerne maintaining this "strong sensitivity" throughout. In the same vein, the unspoken finds its place on the piano and takes on much more than just an accompanying role in his interpretation - as well as in art song in general. Trifonov is in direct musical dialogue with Goerne, the two artists communicating at eye level.

A similar symbiosis is evident in the Michelangelo musical settings by Wolf and Shostakovich. By abandoning tonality in the latter, the connection between piano and spoken word is again reinforced on another level. A unique duo project by two contemporary greats whose paths will hopefully cross more often. © Lena Germann/Qobuz

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Lieder (Berg, Schumann, Wolf, Shostakovich, Brahms)

Matthias Goerne

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4 Gesange, Op. 2 (Alban Berg)

I. Schlafen, schlafen

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Alban Berg, Composer - René Möller, Producer, Editor, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Matthias Goerne, Baritone, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Daniil Trifonov, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Christian Friedrich Hebbel, Author - Jupp Wegner, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel