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Track(s) taken from CDH55371

An die Einsamkeit, K391

First line:
Sei du mein Trost, verschwiegene Traurigkeit!
composer
1781/2; catalogued as K340b in sixth edition
author of text

Joan Rodgers (soprano), Roger Vignoles (piano)
Recording details: June 1997
Rosslyn Hill Unitarian Chapel, Hampstead, London, United Kingdom
Produced by Mark Brown
Engineered by Antony Howell & Julian Millard
Release date: October 1998
Total duration: 3 minutes 30 seconds

Cover artwork: Initiation ceremony in a Viennese Masonic Lodge during the reign of Joseph II (1784). Ignaz Unterberger (1748-1797)
Historisches Museum der Stadt Vienna / Bridgeman Images
 

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Robin Tritschler (tenor), Malcolm Martineau (piano)
An die Einsamkeit exhibits an exquisite opening, a gentle slide towards B flat that effectively represents the hidden sorrow of the poet as he seeks a place of comfortable isolation where he can nurse his wounded heart to the grave.

from notes by Robin Tritschler © 2019

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