Robert Schumann, Georg Grün, Ingeborg Danz, Christoph Prégardien, Sibylla Rubens, Yorck Felix Speer, Adolph Seidel, KammerChor Saarbrücken, Deutsche Radio Philharmonie

Requiem, der Königssohn, Nachtlied

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CD/ Track	Title	Duration
1.1	Requiem D flat Major op. 148 Requiem aeternam	04:05
1.2	Requiem D flat Major op. 148 Te decet hymnus	04:54
1.3	Requiem D flat Major op. 148 Dies irae	03:24
1.4	Requiem D flat Major op. 148 Liber scriptus proferetur	05:22
1.5	Requiem D flat Major op. 148 Qui Mariam absolvisti	04:56
1.6	Requiem D flat Major op. 148 Domine Jesu Christe	02:33
1.7	Requiem D flat Major op. 148 Hostias	00:59
1.8	Requiem D flat Major op. 148 Sanctus	03:47
1.9	Requiem D flat Major op. 148 Benedictus	07:06
1.10	Der Königssohn, ballad for soloists, choir and orchestra op. 116 Nr. 1 Feierlich	03:27
1.11	Der Königssohn, ballad for soloists, choir and orchestra op. 116 Nr. 2 Lebhaft	05:12
1.12	Der Königssohn, ballad for soloists, choir and orchestra op. 116 Nr. 3 In mäßigem Tempo	02:32
1.13	Der Königssohn, ballad for soloists, choir and orchestra op. 116 Nr. 4 Sehr lebhaft	02:26
1.14	Der Königssohn, ballad for soloists, choir and orchestra op. 116 Nr. 5 Ziemlich langsam	06:22
1.15	Der Königssohn, ballad for soloists, choir and orchestra op. 116 Nr. 6 Feierlich bewegt	04:51
1.16	Nachtlied for choir and orchestra op. 108	09:47

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: SCM Hänssler
Art.-No.:: 093.270.000
: Compact Disc
: 20 S. Booklet
Duration:: 1:12 hrs.
: March 2011
: *recommended retail price

The current program presents three, unjustly neglected late choral
works by Robert Schumann. Indeed, much of Schumann's late music has suffered from harsh criticism; even Schumann's biographer Robert Schauffler simply says “… these (the late choral) works need not detain us.” Such judgments resulted more from a misunderstanding of the composer's intentions, rather than the quality of the works themselves. Schumann's Requiem Op. 148 was
written as a "companion" piece to his Mass Op. 147 and is an elegant and gentle acceptance of death. The work is beautifully scored and inhabits a world between Fauré's otherworldly peace and Berlioz's thunderous Last Judgment.
Der Königssohn op. 116 was one of three works for voices and orchestra composed by Schumann from 1851-53 to poems by the German revolutionary poet Ludwig Uhland. The composer envisioned the work being performed my mass choruses, deliberately writing simple, folk-inspired melodies, rather than focus upon the musical drama expressed in the poem. Schumann reserved his finest music for the character of the "Bard" - with whom he undoubtedly identified. The program concludes with an unquestioned masterpiece - the all-to-rarely performed Nachtlied op. 108. Here is Schumann at his finest - as well as anticipating the musical world of Brahms' "Deutsches Requiem."