Katalógové číslo:
C789101B
Autori:
Arnold Schönberg, Franz Schubert, Richard Strauss
Interpreti:
Irwin Gage, Lucia Popp
Franz Schubert: Sechs Lieder nach Gedichtern von Friedrich von Schlegel
1 Der Knabe D 692
2 Die Gebüsche D 646
3 Der Fluss D 693
4 Der Schmetterling D 633
5 Die Rose D 745
6 Fülle Der Liebe D 854
Franz Schubert: Ausgewählte Lieder
7 An mein Herz D 860
8 Der Jüngling an der Quelle D 300
9 Der Liebende schreibt D 673
10 Der Einsame D 800
Arnold Schönberg: Vier Lieder Op. 2
11 Erwartung
12 Schenk mir deinen goldenen Kamm
13 Erhebung
14 Waldsonne
Richard Strauss: Drei Lieder Der Ophelia (Aus Hamlet) Op. 67
15 Wie erkenn ich mein Treulieb
16 Gute Morgen, 's ist Sankt Valentinstag
17 Sie trugen ihn auf der bahre Bloß
Richard Strauss: Ausgewählte Lieder
18 Meine Auge Op. 37/4
19 Meinem Kinde Op. 37/3
20 Die Zeitlose Op. 10/7
21 Die Verschwiegenen Op. 10/6
22 Hat gesagt - bleibt's nicht dabei Op. 36/3
Zugaben
23 Richard Strauss: Allerseelen Op. 10/8
24 Franz Schubert: An Silvia D 891
25 Franz Schubert: Seligkeit D 433
Lucia Popp was an absolute audience favourite for several decades. Besides her great operatic roles – first as a coloratura soprano, then in the lyric fach – she always maintained a large concert and lieder repertoire that demonstrated in equal degree her great musicality and charm.
At the Munich Opera Festival in 1984, Lucia Popp presented a combination of lesser-known songs of well-known composers in a programme that formed a musically colourful and harmonious whole. This live recording, made in the intimate rococo hall of the Cuvilliés Theatre, allows us to experience that concert once again.
Lucia Popp was partnered there by Irwin Gage, whose musical qualities matched her own, yet who refrained from placing himself in the foreground. With their opening selection of Schubert they were able to transfix the audience in such a manner that the ensuing group of Schoenberg’s early songs Op. 2 seemed to follow on quite naturally. In Strauss’s Ophelia Songs, Popp displayed her extraordinary ability to portray a stage character swiftly, yet in a manner wellrounded and accurate, by purely vocal means.
The last quarter of this song recital, also devoted to Strauss, was the most popular and was received with frenetic applause. These songs reached a magnificent climax in the encore 'Allerseelen'. This was followed by a return to Schubert with 'An Silvia'. It rounded off a dramatically conceived evening of German Romanticism, a superb example of how Popp could present her admirers with a performance deeply felt in its artistry, but never calculating or sentimental. It makes one regret all the more her all-too-early death.
Recorded at the Cuvilliés Theatre on 25th July, 1984