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Track(s) taken from SIGCD160

Drei Lieder, Op 18

First line:
Du reine Frau aus Licht und Elfenbein
composer
Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897-1957)
author of text
Hans Kaltneker (1895-1919)

William Dazeley (baritone), Iain Burnside (piano)
Recording details: May 2008
Potton Hall, Dunwich, Suffolk, United Kingdom
Produced by John H West
Engineered by Mike Hatch
Release date: March 2009
Total duration: 8 minutes 22 seconds
 

Reviews

'Not everyone warms to the music of Erich Wolfgang Korngold, but this excellent selection of songs from his Viennese days, with a couple of examples also dating from his Hollywood heyday, might convert even the sternest naysayer. Iain Burnside accompanies Sarah Connolly and William Dazeley in the many moods of this complicated Wunderkind' (Gramophone)

'Sarah Connolly and William Dazeley respond magnificently to Korngold’s testing vocal lines, with their wide leaps and need for solid legato … Iain Burnside accompanies with his customary insight' (BBC Music Magazine)» More
The three Kaltneker songs Op 18 are among the most complex Lieder in Korngold’s output. Kaltneker’s unpublished play Die Heilige had sparked into life Korngold’s Das Wunder der Heliane—effectively a giant, erotic mystery play, the opera is a post-romantic, expressionistic effort on a scale that exceeds even Schoenberg’s Gurre-Lieder, and Korngold threw into it every harmonic and instrumental invention he possibly could—bitonality, polytonality and mysticism ooze from the gargantuan score in an overwhelming paean to the power of love. Kaltneker’s mystical tendencies are likewise present in these three poems; and Korngold gives his settings a similar mystery, harmonic adventure and richness of texture to that of Heliane, with piano writing that is commensurately demanding.

from notes by Jessica Duchen © 2008

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