Schönberg: Complete Songs
Claudia Barainsky & Melanie Diener (sopranos), Anke Vondung (mezzo-soprano), Christa Mayer (contralto), Konrad Jarnot (baritone), Markus Schäfer (tenor), Urs Liska (piano)
[Jarnot's] warmly mellifluous baritone is finely deployed in a group of nine posthumous songs...Barainsky effortlessly conveys the insinuating charms of Colly's 'Jedem das Seine' and Frank Wedekind's...
Schönberg: Complete Songs
Claudia Barainsky & Melanie Diener (sopranos), Anke Vondung (mezzo-soprano), Christa Mayer (contralto), Konrad Jarnot (baritone), Markus Schäfer (tenor), Urs Liska (piano)
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[Jarnot's] warmly mellifluous baritone is finely deployed in a group of nine posthumous songs...Barainsky effortlessly conveys the insinuating charms of Colly's 'Jedem das Seine' and Frank Wedekind's...
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First complete recording of the Songs for Voice and Piano by Arnold Schönberg on a special priced 4 CD set.
Includes Gurre-Lieder (Early Version for voice and piano), Fifteen poems from “The book of the hanging gardens”, Brettl-Lieder and Early Songs.
Contents and tracklist
- Urs Liska (piano), Konrad Jarnot (baritone)
- Urs Liska (piano), Konrad Jarnot (baritone)
- Konrad Jarnot (baritone), Urs Liska (piano)
- Urs Liska (piano), Konrad Jarnot (baritone)
- Urs Liska (piano), Konrad Jarnot (baritone)
- Konrad Jarnot (baritone), Urs Liska (piano)
- Konrad Jarnot (baritone), Urs Liska (piano)
- Urs Liska (piano), Konrad Jarnot (baritone)
- Urs Liska (piano), Konrad Jarnot (baritone)
- Konrad Jarnot (baritone), Urs Liska (piano)
- Konrad Jarnot (baritone), Urs Liska (piano)
- Urs Liska (piano), Konrad Jarnot (baritone)
- Claudia Barainsky (soprano), Urs Liska (piano)
- Urs Liska (piano), Claudia Barainsky (soprano)
- Claudia Barainsky (soprano), Urs Liska (piano)
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Awards and reviews
February 2013
[Jarnot's] warmly mellifluous baritone is finely deployed in a group of nine posthumous songs...Barainsky effortlessly conveys the insinuating charms of Colly's 'Jedem das Seine' and Frank Wedekind's 'Galathea'...A release which is mandatory listening for anyone who wishes to assess Schoenberg's place within the Lieder tradition.
September 2014
Highlights include an accomplished performance of the song cycle, Das Buch der hängenden Gärten and a witty, seductive performance of the Brettl-Lieder.
19th July 2012
The performances throughout the set, all of them accompanied by pianist Urs Liska, vary from the thoroughly effective to the very fine indeed, with the baritone Konrad Jarnot particularly impressive. ..But it's the sheer comprehensiveness of this set that makes it so fascinating; many of the songs in it would be hard to source elsewhere.