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Title: Kienzl: Four Song-Cycles
Artist: Malte Muller
Label: Toccata
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 5060113447364
Genre: Classical Artists
Release Date: 2024-08-02
Number of Discs: 1

The Austrian composer Wilhelm Kienzl (1857-1941) - also a pianist, conductor, musicologist and writer on music - enjoyed the esteem of his contemporaries particularly for his vocal music. But his star has waned over the past century, and only a handful of his 238 songs have had recent recordings. In style they range from the simple and folk-like to the dramatic and quasi-operatic; their harmonic world likewise embraces both the diatonic and chromatic, with hints of the influence of Schubert, Schumann and Brahms and a foretaste of later composers. The four song-cycles recorded here treat the grand themes of life: love, loss, death and man's interaction with nature.

Tracks:
1.1 From Friedrich Rückert's 'Liebesfrühling' (Love's Spring), Op. 11~No. 1 Aus dem I. Strauss 'Erwacht': So wahr die Sonne scheinet (As truly as the sun shines)
1.2 From Friedrich Rückert's 'Liebesfrühling' (Love's Spring), Op. 11~No. 2 Aus dem I. Strauss 'Erwacht': Da ich dich einmal gefunden (Now that I have found you)
1.3 From Friedrich Rückert's 'Liebesfrühling' (Love's Spring), Op. 11~No. 3 Aus dem II. Strauss 'Entflohen': Er ist gekommen in Sturm und Regen (He came in storm and rain)
1.4 From Friedrich Rückert's 'Liebesfrühling' (Love's Spring), Op. 11~No. 4 Aus dem III. Strauss 'Entfremdet': Komm', verhüllte Schöne! (Come, veiled beauty!)
1.5 From Friedrich Rückert's 'Liebesfrühling' (Love's Spring), Op. 11~No. 5 Aus dem IV. Strauss 'Wiedergewonnen': Die gute Nacht, die ich dir sage (The goodnight wish with which I greet you)
1.6 From Friedrich Rückert's 'Liebesfrühling' (Love's Spring), Op. 11~No. 6 Aus dem IV. Strauss 'Wiedergewonnen': Ich lag von sanftem Traum umflossen (I lay engulfed in a gentle dream)
1.7 From Friedrich Rückert's 'Liebesfrühling' (Love's Spring), Op. 11~No. 7 Aus dem V. Strauss 'Verbunden': Mir ist, nun ich dich habe (I feel, now you are mine)
1.8 Three Album Leaves for voice with piano, Op. 24~No. 1 Viel Träume (Many Dream)
1.9 Three Album Leaves for voice with piano, Op. 24~No. 2 Immer leiser wird mein Schlummer (My slumber grows ever more peaceful)
1.10 Three Album Leaves for voice with piano, Op. 24~No. 3 Ich liebe dich! (I love you!)
1.11 Four Songs for voice with piano accompaniment, Op. 44~No. 1 Winterlied (Winter song)
1.12 Four Songs for voice with piano accompaniment, Op. 44~No. 2 Abendhelle (Evening Light)
1.13 Four Songs for voice with piano accompaniment, Op. 44~No. 3 Wie ist doch die Erde so schön! (How beautiful the world is!)
1.14 Four Songs for voice with piano accompaniment, Op. 44~No. 4 Meine Lust ist leben! (My desire is to live!)
1.15 Five Songs for high voice with piano, Op. 82~No. 1 Liebesorakel (Love's Oracle)
1.16 Five Songs for high voice with piano, Op. 82~No. 2 Die Sterne (The Stars)
1.17 Five Songs for high voice with piano, Op. 82~No. 3 Im Rosenduft (Amid the Scent of Roses)
1.18 Five Songs for high voice with piano, Op. 82~No. 4 Genesung (Convalescence)
1.19 Five Songs for high voice with piano, Op. 82~No. 5 Hinauf! (Upwards!)