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Beethoven, Irish and Scottish Songs, In questa tomba oscura, Adelaide
Ludwig van Beethoven

Andrè Schuen & Boulanger Trio

Beethoven, Irish and Scottish Songs, In questa tomba oscura, Adelaide

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Label: CAvi
UPC: 4260085533770
Catnr: AVI 8553377
Release date: 04 August 2017
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AVI 8553377
Release date
04 August 2017

"A discovery of intimate, poetic to playful music, with the beautiful voice of the Italian baritone Andrè Schuen (° 1984) as a big plus. Highly recommended."

Stretto, 09-8-2017
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About the album

“WHAT SWEET, SECRET BLISS!”
Art song had blossomed into a multifaceted genre by 1800, and the debate whether to favour recurrent stanza structures or through-composed form was well underway. Lieder, as the lyrical genre per se, marked out the territory in which musicians could express the most profound emotions. The best composers therefore increasingly chose to through-compose their songs – a logical step, thanks to which they were able to closely follow the content and the speech of the poems they were setting to music. Beethoven already took that very step in his earliest Lieder. The emotional value of a song such as Adelaide op. 46 (1795/96) even managed to convince a late-19th-century Vienna music critic otherwise well known for his harshness – Eduard Hanslick, who wrote in 1886: “No depiction of a youth’s enthusiastic love could be more faithful and exemplary than this Adelaide by Beethoven. What sweet, secret bliss shivers in every note of this golden melody! Perhaps the young man is not even ‘blushingly following her footsteps’ like Schiller’s suitor [in The Song of the Bell ]. Instead, this lover seems to be content to inebriate himself with his beloved’s mere name, to which he renders such profuse homage.”

Beethoven originally called his setting of Matthisson’s poem a “cantata”, and Adelaide introduced a theme that would play a major role in the composer’s subsequent Lieder output: his yearning for the unattainable. No other work conveys that same subject more impressively than the one Beethoven wrote in 1816: To the Distant Beloved, op. 98, a setting of a “romantic-pastoral text” (Maynard Solomon, 1977) by Alois Jeitteles, and the first truly through-composed song cycle in music history. The songs in this cycle cannot be singled out for individual performance, since they are connected by transitions in the piano accompaniment. Schubert never took up the same idea, but it served all the more so as a model for Robert Schumann and for subsequent generations of Lied composers. Beethoven would later apply the same cyclic concept, displayed in such exemplary fashion in To the Distant Beloved, in several of his late chamber music works...

His contribution can be described as new arrangements and harmonizations of pre-existing melodies. These were true “songs without words”, since considerations of language could not be taken into account. Beethoven’s correspondence with Thomson shows, however, that he was quite pleased with this modus operandi (although the Irish Songs WoO 152-154, conversely, did allow for a closer association between text and music).

(Booklet Notes: Reinhard Palmer)

Artist(s)

Andrè Schuen (baritone)

The baritone Andrè Schuen comes from the Ladin La Val (South Tyrol, Italy).He studied at the Mozarteum in Salzburg under Prof. Horiana Branisteanu, as well as song and oratorio under Prof. Wolfgang Holzmair. He attended master courses by Kurt Widmer, Sir Thomas Allen, Brigitte Fassbaender, Marjana Lipovsek, Romualdo Savastano and Olaf Bär. In 2009 Andrè Schuen won a prize at the International Summer Academy of the Mozarteum, and won first prize at the song competition of the Walter und Charlotte Hamel Foundation. In 2010 he passed his diploma in opera, song and oratorio at the Mozarteum with distinction, and was awarded Hanna Ludwig Prize and the Lilli Lehmann Medal. During his emerging career he has already had guest performances with the Vienna Philharmonic, the Mozarteum-Orchester, the Camerata Salzburg...
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The baritone Andrè Schuen comes from the Ladin La Val (South Tyrol, Italy).He studied at the Mozarteum in Salzburg under Prof. Horiana Branisteanu, as well as song and oratorio under Prof. Wolfgang Holzmair. He attended master courses by Kurt Widmer, Sir Thomas Allen, Brigitte Fassbaender, Marjana Lipovsek, Romualdo Savastano and Olaf Bär. In 2009 Andrè Schuen won a prize at the International Summer Academy of the Mozarteum, and won first prize at the song competition of the Walter und Charlotte Hamel Foundation. In 2010 he passed his diploma in opera, song and oratorio at the Mozarteum with distinction, and was awarded Hanna Ludwig Prize and the Lilli Lehmann Medal.
During his emerging career he has already had guest performances with the Vienna Philharmonic, the Mozarteum-Orchester, the Camerata Salzburg and other well-known orchestras. Concerts, festivals and TV performances have taken him to Vienna, Berlin, Munich, Zurich, Tokyo, Puebla (Mexico), Buenos Aires and Ushuaia (Argentina). At the Salzburg Festival he perfomed various roles since 2006 under conductors such as Ivor Bolton, Ingo Metzmacher, Simon Rattle and Riccardo Muti, Alberto Zedda and others. Since September 2010 he has been a member of the ensemble of the Graz Opera, where he could be heard as Jeletzky (Pique Dame), Masetto (Don Giovanni), Belcore (Elisir d'amore), Ford (Falstaff) and lastly as the title role in Gasparone, Papageno (Magic Flute) and Roi Alphonse (La favorita). In Montpellier and Vienna he premiered as Don Giovanni, Guglielmo and Figaro (Vienna).
Besides the Lied Andrè Schuen is also busy in the field of Oratorio: in addition to numerous masses and cantatas, he sung in J.S. Bach's Christmas Oratorio, St John’s Passion and Mass in B minor, J. Haydn's The Creation, G.F. Handel's Messiah, W.A. Mozart's Requiem, Brahms's A German Requiem, and finally Mendelssohn's Walpurgisnacht, the role of Christ in Bach's St Matthew Passion, Fauré's Requiem.
He has been working on lieder with the pianist Daniel Heide – his constantly expanding repertoire includes Schubert's Winterreise, Schumann's Dichterliebe and Song Cycle op.24; he loves composers such as Wolf, Ibert, Martin as well as selected songs of various epochs.

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Boulanger Trio

The German newspaper Die Welt described a performance of the Boulanger Trio as irresistible, while Wolfgang Rihm wrote in a letter: To be interpreted in this way is surely the great dream of every composer. Founded in Hamburg in 2006 by Karla Haltenwanger (piano), Birgit Erz (violin) and Ilona Kindt (cello), the ensemble is now one of the few full-time piano trios currently based in Berlin. Already in 2007 they won the 4th Trondheim International Chamber Music Competition in Norway, followed by the Rauhe Prize for New Chamber Music in 2008. The ensemble has received crucial musical guidance from Hatto Beyerle, Menahem Pressler, and Alfred Brendel. In the past years, the trio has gained an excellent reputation in the world of...
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The German newspaper Die Welt described a performance of the Boulanger Trio as irresistible, while Wolfgang Rihm wrote in a letter: To be interpreted in this way is surely the great dream of every composer. Founded in Hamburg in 2006 by Karla Haltenwanger (piano), Birgit Erz (violin) and Ilona Kindt (cello), the ensemble is now one of the few full-time piano trios currently based in Berlin. Already in 2007 they won the 4th Trondheim International Chamber Music Competition in Norway, followed by the Rauhe Prize for New Chamber Music in 2008. The ensemble has received crucial musical guidance from Hatto Beyerle, Menahem Pressler, and Alfred Brendel.

In the past years, the trio has gained an excellent reputation in the world of chamber music, with regular appearances at the Heidelberger Frühling, Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, the Sommerliche Musiktage Hitzacker, the Dialogs at Salzburg Mozarteum, and Ultraschall in Berlin. In tandem with chamber music partners such as Nils Mönkemeyer (viola), Sebastian Manz (clarinet) and Andrè Schuen (baritone), the trio has performed at prestigious venues such as the Festspielhaus in Baden-Baden, Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, Wigmore Hall in London and the Philharmonie and the Konzerthaus in Berlin.

In addition to works of the Classical and Romantic periods, the three musicians are much in demand as performers of new music. The Boulanger Trio collaborates with composers such as Wolfgang Rihm, Johannes Maria Staud, Friedrich Cerha, Toshio Hosokawa, and Matthias Pintscher. In 2012, the trio launched its own concert series, the Boulangerie, in Hamburg and Berlin, and starting with this season it is also being exported to the Musikverein in Vienna. At every one of these concerts, a classical composition is performed alongside a piece of contemporary music, the composer of which is always present and talks with the three musicians about his or her oeuvre.

In 2016, the Boulanger Trio added two new recordings on the CAvi-music label to its discography: Solitaires, and a portrait CD celebrating the 90th birthday of Austrian composer Friedrich Cerha, after five previous releases on the Ars and Hänssler Profil labels that featured works by composers such as Shostakovich, Vasks, Liszt, and Schoenberg.


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Composer(s)

Ludwig van Beethoven

Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. A crucial figure in the transition between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western art music, he remains one of the most famous and influential of all composers. His best-known compositions include nine symphonies, five piano concertos, one violin concerto, 32 piano sonatas, 16 string quartets, his great Mass the Missa solemnis, and one opera, Fidelio. Together with Mozart and Haydn, he was part of the First Viennese School.    Born in Bonn, then the capital of the Electorate of Cologne and part of the Holy Roman Empire, Beethoven displayed his musical talents at an early age and was taught by his father Johann van Beethoven and by composer and conductor Christian Gottlob...
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Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. A crucial figure in the transition between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western art music, he remains one of the most famous and influential of all composers. His best-known compositions include nine symphonies, five piano concertos, one violin concerto, 32 piano sonatas, 16 string quartets, his great Mass the Missa solemnis, and one opera, Fidelio. Together with Mozart and Haydn, he was part of the First Viennese School. Born in Bonn, then the capital of the Electorate of Cologne and part of the Holy Roman Empire, Beethoven displayed his musical talents at an early age and was taught by his father Johann van Beethoven and by composer and conductor Christian Gottlob Neefe. At the age of 21 he moved to Vienna, where he began studying composition with Joseph Haydn, and gained a reputation as a virtuoso pianist. He lived in Vienna until his death. By his late 20s his hearing began to deteriorate, and by the last decade of his life he was almost totally deaf. In 1811 he gave up conducting and performing in public but continued to compose; many of his most admired works come from these last 15 years of his life.

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A discovery of intimate, poetic to playful music, with the beautiful voice of the Italian baritone Andrè Schuen (° 1984) as a big plus. Highly recommended.
Stretto, 09-8-2017

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01.
Adelaide, für Bariton und Klavier / for Baritone and Piano Op. 46 (1795/96)
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(Ludwig van Beethoven) Boulanger Trio, Andrè Schuen
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An die ferne Geliebte, Liederkreis / Song Cycle by Alois Jeitteles für Bariton und Klavier / for Baritone and Piano Op. 98 (1816)
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(Ludwig van Beethoven) Boulanger Trio, Andrè Schuen
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In questa tomba oscura, für Bariton und Klavier / for Baritone and Piano WoO 133 (1807)
03:41
(Ludwig van Beethoven) Boulanger Trio, Andrè Schuen
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25 Scottish Songs for Baritone and Piano Trio Op. 108 (1815/16): No. 2 Sunset
03:51
(Ludwig van Beethoven) Boulanger Trio, Andrè Schuen
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25 Scottish Songs for Baritone and Piano Trio Op. 108 (1815/16): No. 3 O sweet were the hours
04:46
(Ludwig van Beethoven) Boulanger Trio, Andrè Schuen
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25 Scottish Songs for Baritone and Piano Trio Op. 108 (1815/16): No. 5 The sweetest lad was Jamie
01:47
(Ludwig van Beethoven) Boulanger Trio, Andrè Schuen
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25 Scottish Songs for Baritone and Piano Trio Op. 108 (1815/16): No. 16 Could this ill world have been contriv?d
02:51
(Ludwig van Beethoven) Boulanger Trio, Andrè Schuen
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25 Scottish Songs for Baritone and Piano Trio Op. 108 (1815/16): No. 20 Faithfu? Johnie
04:47
(Ludwig van Beethoven) Boulanger Trio, Andrè Schuen
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25 Scottish Songs for Baritone and Piano Trio Op. 108 (1815/16): No. 13 Come fill, fill, my good fellow
02:17
(Ludwig van Beethoven) Boulanger Trio, Andrè Schuen
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Irish Songs for Baritone and Piano Trio (1810-1813): No. 9 The Soldier?s Dream WoO 152
05:06
(Ludwig van Beethoven) Boulanger Trio, Andrè Schuen
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Irish Songs for Baritone and Piano Trio (1810-1813): No. 10 The deserter WoO 152
01:35
(Ludwig van Beethoven) Boulanger Trio, Andrè Schuen
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Irish Songs for Baritone and Piano Trio (1810-1813): No. 5 On the massacre of Glencoe WoO 152
02:18
(Ludwig van Beethoven) Boulanger Trio, Andrè Schuen
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Irish Songs for Baritone and Piano Trio (1810-1813): No. 15 The brainspinning Swains WoO 152
02:07
(Ludwig van Beethoven) Boulanger Trio, Andrè Schuen
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Irish Songs for Baritone and Piano Trio (1810-1813): No. 7 Polly Stewart WoO 156
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(Ludwig van Beethoven) Boulanger Trio, Andrè Schuen
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Irish Songs for Baritone and Piano Trio (1810-1813): No. 4 The pulse of an Irishman ever beats quicker WoO 154
02:37
(Ludwig van Beethoven) Boulanger Trio, Andrè Schuen
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Irish Songs for Baritone and Piano Trio (1810-1813): No. 4 Since greybeards inform us that youth will decay WoO 153
01:42
(Ludwig van Beethoven) Boulanger Trio, Andrè Schuen
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Irish Songs for Baritone and Piano Trio (1810-1813): No. 21 Morning a cruel turmoiler is WoO 152
01:52
(Ludwig van Beethoven) Boulanger Trio, Andrè Schuen
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