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Track(s) taken from SIGCD401

Ich will dir singen ein Hohelied

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Robin Tritschler (tenor), Malcolm Martineau (piano)
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Recording details: February 2014
St Michael's Church, Summertown, Oxford, United Kingdom
Produced by Raphaël Mouterde
Engineered by Mike Hatch & Robin Hawkins
Release date: November 2014
Total duration: 10 minutes 48 seconds

Cover artwork: The Volunteer (c1914-1916).
© HIP / Topfoto / ArenaPAL
 

Reviews

'This timely recital includes songs by those, more ore less obscure who fell young in the First World War—George Butterworth, Albéric Magnard, Rudi Stephan, William Denis Browne and others—and by those who survived, were imprisoned or were otherwise affected by that shameful conflict. The gifted tenor Robin Tritschler's singing is nuanced sensitively, while the pianist Malcolm Martineau is, as always, an astute partner' (The Sunday Times)
Rudi Stephan (1887-1915) was born in Worms, but left to study in Frankfurt, and then Munich. He is considered a leading composer among his generation despite only leaving a small output of works. Influenced by contemporaries such as Stravinsky, Scriabin and Debussy, Stephan developed his own individual voice. He was killed by a bullet to the brain fired by a Russian sniper on the Galician Front, now in modern Ukraine.

Gerda von Robertus (1872-1939) was the pseudonym of Gertrud von Schlieben. As her father was on the Federal Council she moved in high diplomatic social circles, even being formally introduced to the Berlin Court. Upon his death Gertrud could finally forsake the social life and devote herself to literary work. She first published her poems in 1906.

from notes by Robin Tritschler © 2014

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