Wesendonck-Lieder Wwv 91

Par WAGNER RICHARD / HENZE HANS WERNER. After Poems By Mathilde Wesendonck/ Répertoire / Alto et Orchestre de Chambre ou Piano

Studie Zu 'Tristan Und Isolde'. Par WAGNER RICHARD. The sophisticated choral arrangements by Clytus Gottwald have found a place in concert life throughout the world. Now Gottwald has arranged two of Richard Wagner’s Wesendonck Lieder, “Im Treibhaus” and “Träume”, for 16-voice choir a cappella. In his choral transcriptions Gottwald has transferred to traditional music the compositional techniques from new music which he developed during his long tenure as founder and director of the chamber choir Schola Cantorum. He makes audible the structures of the works he transcribes through the use of a finely differentiated sound. / Musique contemporaine / Répertoire / Choeur SSSSAAAATTTTBBBB et Piano (seulement Pour L

In 1857 and 1858 as Richard Wagner had come to the completion of Die Walkure the second installment in his epic opera cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen he took time out to write a series of lieder for (and based on poems by)Mathilde Wesendonck with whom Wagner was believed to have been at the very least extremely infatuated. Whatever the truth might have been behind their relationship it is known that Wagner had met Mathilde's husband Otto inZurich and his ensuing friendship with the couple led to this beautiful set of lieder.Wagner himself called two of the set's songs (Im Treibhaus and Traume) 'studies' for his magnificent opera Tristan andIsolde and though originally intended for female voice with piano all of these songs were eventually orchestrated either by Wagner (in the case of Traume) or by other composers. When they were first performed in 1862 they weretitled Five Songs for a Female Voice. In the 20th century they also became very popular songs for some of the greatest tenors.Much earlier in 1839 Wagner had composed a three-song cycle called Trois Melodies. The firstpiece entitled Dors mon enfant was a lullaby that Wagner ascribed to an unnamed young poet of his publisher's acquaintance and of which he wrote that his wife had called 'heavenly for sending one to sleep'. He thenset Ronsard's song Mignonne and Victor Hugo's L'attente (from that author's Orientales) to round out the set. Wagner offered L'attente to the reigning diva of the time Pauline Viardot who is said to have flatly refused it.Wagner wrote in his memoirs My Life 'I have no reason to be ashamed of these small pieces.'Listen to brilliant tenor Jon Robert Cart perform these lieder. Then he steps aside and you take center stage with yourvirtuoso accompanist Narciso Solero at the piano.

The music of Wagner effectively transcribed for clarinet and piano by Sidney Lawton. Includes four pieces from the music dramas and 'Traume' from the 'Wesendonk Lieder'.

Ger./Eng. New Sheet Music and Coach Me CD Pack available, see EPF 65.18 / Voix Et Piano

Par WAGNER RICHARD. All./Ing. Nouvelle feuille de musique and Coach Me CD Pack - la première collaboration entre Coach Me et édition Peters nous amène le meilleur scénario possible de coaching pour les chanteurs : musique édition Peters et entraîneur Me CD - dans un seul paquet/ Répertoire / Alto