An die Musik - Famous Songs by Franz Schubert by Klaus Mertens / Tini Mathot

Franz Schubert

Klaus Mertens / Tini Mathot

An die Musik - Famous Songs by Franz Schubert

Price: € 12.95
Format: CD
Label: Challenge Classics
UPC: 0608917255928
Catnr: CC 72559
Release date: 31 May 2012
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Label
Challenge Classics

UPC
0608917255928

Catalogue number
CC 72559

Release date
31 May 2012

"Especially the subtle sound of the authentic fortepiano gives a good impression of how the famous Schubertidaes must have sound in the Viennese. Intimate and sober combined with a smile and a tear."

Klassieke zaken, 01-8-2012

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About the album

Bas-bariton Klaus Mertens and Tini Mathot on fortepiano share with us famous songs of Franz Schubert. Songs like Erlkönig, An die Musik, Prometheus, Die Forelle, Du bist die Ruh and many more have been selected by the duo and they give us their illuminating vision and version of songs we all know so well and love so much. The reason why these songs are so timeless is because they have universal emotions and themes and they speak to all of us in every day and age. The songs stay alive by the performance of superb musicians like Mertens and Mathot.

About the works on this cd: Schubert understands the song as a work of art by two independent authors, the poet and the composer. Thus there is hardly a complete Schubert lied manuscript to be found (this is naturally different in sketches and studies) in which the poet is not named and, what is more, immediately with the title of the song.

The three fundamental parameters of the song – text, melody, accompaniment – must in principle be of equal status. The text provides the basis, content and form of the song; the melody makes it singable, the accompaniment interprets it.

The circumstances of Schubert’s life show a close relationship to poetry. Poets were strongly represented in his circle of friends, evenings of readings (sometimes several times a week) made him familiar with the latest literature. The readings were followed by discussions on questions of poetry. Thus it seems quite natural that no other musical genre interested him so intensively (throughout his entire life) as much as the song. And there were two poets whose works he continually set to music during this time: Schiller (since his early youth) and Goethe (since reading Faust in the autumn of 1814). (From the linernotes written by Walther Dürr)

Poetry by Schiller,Goethe and other poets set to music by Schubert on this beautiful cd!

Tijdloze muziek door Klaus Mertens en Tini Mathot
Bas-bariton Klaus Mertens, begeleid door Tini Mathot op fortepiano, brengt op dit album beroemde stukken van Franz Schubert ten gehore. Het zijn werken als Erlkönig, An die Musik, Prometheus, Die Forelle, Du bist die Ruh en vele andere. Het duo geeft hun eigen interpretatie aan muziek die we allemaal goed kennen en waar we van houden. De reden waarom deze liederen zo tijdloos zijn is omdat ze universele emoties en thema’s bevatten die iedereen aanspreken, ongeacht de leeftijd. Deze muziek blijft voortleven omdat ze nog altijd wordt uitgevoerd door grandioze muzikanten als Mertens en Mathot.

De Oostenrijkse componist Franz Schubert ziet het lied als een kunstwerk dat gemaakt wordt door twee onafhankelijke auteurs, namelijk de dichter en de componist. Dat is de reden waarom er bijna geen liedmanuscript is te vinden dat van Schubert alleen is, waarin er geen dichter wordt genoemd maar in plaats daarvan de titel van het lied. Schubert had gedurende zijn leven veel te maken met poëzie. Hij had veel dichters in zijn vriendenkring en hij ging vaak naar leesavonden, waar hij vertrouwd raakte met de laatste literatuur. Na de lezingen werd er gediscussieerd over de gedichten. Door deze aanraking met poëzie kreeg Schubert veel interesse voor gedichten die hij vervolgens ging voorzien van muziek. Zo werd het lied zijn favoriete muziekgenre. Er waren twee dichters die hem erg inspireerden en van wie hij de werken op muziek zette in die tijd: Schiller, die hij sinds zijn vroege jeugd kende en Goethe, wiens Faust hij had gelezen in de herfst van 1814.

Tini Mathot is een befaamd klavecimbel en fortepianospeelster en heeft de productie gedaan van de opnames van haar echtgenoot Ton Koopman. Ze produceerde dit album ook samen met hem. Klaus Mertens verschijnt regelmatig op verschillende festivals en op concerten op tv en live radio-uitzendingen. Hij wordt hooggewaardeerd als Lieder zanger. Mertens heeft een grote concert carrière opgebouwd en heeft al meer dan 100 opnames gemaakt. Hij heeft ook met Ton Koopman gewerkt aan zijn complete set van Bach cantates.

Ewig junge Lieder mit Klaus Mertens und Tini Mathot

Der Bassbariton Klaus Mertens und Tini Mathot am Fortepiano präsentieren berühmte Lieder von Franz Schubert wie Erlkönig, Prometheus, Die Forelle, An die Musik u.v.a. .Schuberts Lieder bleiben ewig aktuell, weil sie universale Gefühle und Themen behandeln, die in jedem Lebensalter ansprechen.

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Klaus Mertens

Bass-baritone Klaus Mertens is celebrated by critics as an “excellent master of his craft” for his “unique power of expression, his congenial timbre, his keen intuition for text, as well as his convincing manner of making music”. He has recorded more than 200 CDs, including the entire works of Johann Sebastian Bach and Dietrich Buxtehude. These testify eloquently to his art of singing, which spans a great arch from Monteverdi to his contemporaries. Characterized as “the most significant Telemann interpreter of our time”, Mertens received the Telemann prize of the city of Magdeburg in 2016. In 2019, he was honored with the renowned Bach medal of the city of Leipzig as the “ideal interpreter of Bach’s cantatas and passion texts”.

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Tini Mathot

Tini Mathot was born in Amsterdam. She studied piano and harpsichord at the Amsterdam Sweelinck Conservatory. She enjoys a close collaboration with her husband and former teacher Ton Koopman. Together they perform many popular and lesser known works, giving recitals and performing in chamber music projects in the major concert halls of Europe, the United States and Japan. Tini Mathot regularly appears as a soloist together with Ton Koopman in concertos for two (or more) harpsichords and orchestra. She has recorded double concertos of J.S. Bach, C.P.E. Bach, J.F. Reichardt and C. Schaffrath with the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra. Tini Mathot is a member of the Corelli Ensemble, whose members include Reine-Marie Verhagen. The ensemble was awarded the Diapason d’Or in France for...

Tini Mathot was born in Amsterdam. She studied piano and harpsichord at the Amsterdam Sweelinck Conservatory.
She enjoys a close collaboration with her husband and former teacher Ton Koopman. Together they perform many popular and lesser known works, giving recitals and performing in chamber music projects in the major concert halls of Europe, the United States and Japan. Tini Mathot regularly appears as a soloist together with Ton Koopman in concertos for two (or more) harpsichords and orchestra. She has recorded double concertos of J.S. Bach, C.P.E. Bach, J.F. Reichardt and C. Schaffrath with the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra.
Tini Mathot is a member of the Corelli Ensemble, whose members include Reine-Marie Verhagen. The ensemble was awarded the Diapason d’Or in France for its recording of Haydn trios (with Andrew Manze and Jaap ter Linden), issued by Erato. The CD recording of Schubert’s ‘Winterreise’, sung by the baritone Klaus Mertens with Tini Mathot playing an original Rosenberger fortepiano, was released in 2005, followed by a recording of J.S. Bach’s organ trio sonatas with Reine-Marie Verhagen (recorder) and Tini Mathot (organ and harpsichord) in 2008, both CDs issued by Challenge Classics.
In her capacity as producer for Ton Koopman’s Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir and also for other ensembles, Tini Mathot has produced numerous CDs for Erato, Teldec and Antoine Marchand/Challenge Classics, among other labels. She is the producer of the complete series of Bach cantatas by Ton Koopman and the ABO&C as well as the Opera Omnia of Dieterich Buxtehude, which Ton Koopman is currently working on. In addition to these activities Tini Mathot teaches harpsichord at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague.  Tini Mathot plays on a fortepiano by Mathias Müller, Vienna c. 1810 (with a range of 6 octaves FF-f4, an Empire-style case with bronze fittings and Caryatid legs), from the collection of Edwin Beunk, Enschede (NL). The instrument is typical of the Viennese building style around 1810. Mathias Müller had a reputation as an innovator with regard to instruments and was ‘Kaiserlich-Königlich priviligiert’.

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Franz Schubert

Franz Peter Schubert was an Austrian composer. Schubert already died before his 32nd birthday, but was extremely prolific during his lifetime. His output consists of over six hundred secular vocal works (mainly Lieder), seven complete symphonies, sacred music, operas, incidental music and a large body of chamber and piano music. Appreciation of his music while he was alive was limited to a relatively small circle of admirers in Vienna, but interest in his work increased significantly in the decades following his death. Felix Mendelssohn, Robert Schumann, Franz Liszt, Johannes Brahms and other 19th-century composers discovered and championed his works. Today, Schubert is ranked among the greatest composers of the late Classical and early Romantic eras and is one of the most frequently performed composers of the early nineteenth century.
It was in the genre of the Lied that Schubert made his most indelible mark. Prior to Schubert's influence, Lieder tended toward a strophic, syllabic treatment of text, evoking the folksong qualities engendered by the stirrings of Romantic nationalism. Schubert expanded the potentialities of the genre like no other composer before.

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Especially the subtle sound of the authentic fortepiano gives a good impression of how the famous Schubertidaes must have sound in the Viennese. Intimate and sober combined with a smile and a tear.
Klassieke zaken, 01-8-2012