| | GOETHE AND THE GUITAR: SONGS AND BALLADS c1800 (CD) | DANUBIA DISCS 2002 (nr kat. CM002) | | Premiera/Wznowienie dn. 2002-12-01 | CLASSICAL, VOCALS, GUITAR | | | | | |  |
1. ICH GING IM WALDE SO FUR MICH HIN TENOR AND GUITAR
2. DER FISCHER SOPRANO/TENOR, FLUTE AND GUITAR
3. DER KONIG IN THULE TENOR II, PIANOFORTE AND GUITAR
4. DER RATTENFANGER TENOR AND GUITAR
5. ABSCHIEDSLIED DER JOHANNA SOPRANO AND GUITAR
6. DER ERLKONIG SOPRANO, TENORS I&II, BARITONE, PIANOFOR
7. SCHAFERS KLAGELIED TENOR, FLUTE AND GUITAR
8. ICH WOLLT'ICH WAR' EIN FISCH SOPRANO, TENOR, FLUTE, PIANOFORTE AND GU
9. ICH DENKE DEIN SOPRANO AND GUITAR
10. DER MUSENSOHN TENOR AND GUITAR
11. SEHNSUCHT NACH ITALIEN SOPRANO AND PIANOFORTE
12. DAS MADCHEN AUS DER FREMDE SOPRANO AND GUITAR
13. DER JUNGE JAGER TENOR AND BARITONE
14. MONOLOG DER MARIA STUART SOPRANO, FLUTE AND GUITAR
15. LA MORT DE WERTHER TENOR AND GUITAR
16. DER ERLKONIG SOPRANO, TENORS I&II, GUITAR
17. SCHAFERS KLAGE SOPRANO AND GUITAR
18. DAS MADCHEN AUS DER FREMDE TENOR, FLUTE AND GUITAR
19. SEHNSUCHT SOPRANO AND GUITAR
20. WANDERERS NACHTLIED TENOR AND PIANOFORTE
21. TRINKLIED TENOR II, PIANOFORTE, GUITAR AND CHORUS
22. ICH DENKE DEIN TENOR AND GUITAR
23. WIE DER TAG MIR SCHLEICHET SOPRANO, FLUTE AND GUITAR
24. NECHTGESANG TENOR AND GUITAR
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Noemi Kiss: soprano [2,5,6,8,9,11,12,14,16,17,19,21,23]
Rogers Covey-Crump: tenor [1-4,6-8,10,13,15,16,18,20-22,24]
Michael Sanderson: tenor [3,6-8,14,18,23]
Jenny Thomas: one-keyed flute [2,6-8,14,18,23]
Katharine May: square piano [3,6,8,11,20,21]
Ian Gammie: guitar [all except 11,13,20]
Derek McCulloch: proprietor Cafe Mozart, additional voice [6,13,21]
Recorded 21-22 May 2002 at St Martin's Church, East Woodhay, nr Newbury, GB
Recorded by Jonathan Lane.
Produced by Derek McCulloch.
Graphics - Greville - Windsor.
Early Music Review, (ed. Clifford Bartlett) December 2002
Here is a fascinating issue and let no one be put off by the seemingly
flippant name of the group: Cafe Mozart (Proprietor Derek McCulloch). What
we are offered here, in clear, well-balanced performances, and introduced
by a good booklet with full texts (but lacking timings), are two dozen
songs by little-known composers. Apart from the variety that four Schiller
texts provide, the lyrics are all by Goethe (one or two of them of
uncertain authority, or arranged). There are very attractive songs here,
including settings of texts that Schubert and Wolf set incomparably after
minor composers such as Jusdorf and Methfessel, Harder and the delightfully
named Streitwolf had tried their hands. One or two of the composers
represented here Zelter and Zumsteeg enjoy, of course some distinction.
The performances are full of charm and spirit. Rogers Covey-Crump and the
Hungarian soprano Nomi Kiss are the most frequently employed of the
singers; Ian Gammie with his guitar is heard in all but three of the
tracks. Katharine May on a fine square piano of 1796 and Jenny Thomas on a
sweet-toned flute are heard to advantage in several numbers; Michael
Sanderson (second tenor) and Derek McCulloch make telling contributions,
the latter an almost Quint-like Elf-King in Bernhard Klein's setting (one
of two here of this chilling ballad). This CD is strongly recommended.
Peter Branscombe
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