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... o sink hernieder, Nacht der Liebe
Franz Schubert, Frédéric Chopin

Katharina Thalbach | Feininger Trio

... o sink hernieder, Nacht der Liebe

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Format: CD
Label: CAvi
UPC: 4260085530779
Catnr: AVI 8553077
Release date: 02 August 2019
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4260085530779
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AVI 8553077
Release date
02 August 2019
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About the album

….o night of love, descend upon us
That motif from Wagner’s Tristan and Isolde sets the musical and lyrical mood for the selection of pieces and poems in the Feininger Trio’s programme, performed for the first time at the Baden-Baden Easter Festival.

Love and death: The goal in selecting the poems was to find a mood similar to Schubert’s Notturno and Chopin’s Piano Trio Op. 8: texts that could establish a lyrical dialogue with those pieces. How can we grasp the great subject of love and death? How can we associate language with music, but without relegating language to a subordinate role? How can a series of poems tell their own story while at the same time highlighting the expression conveyed by the music, which is still the precondition for this musical-poetical programme?

Start at the beginning: Following Schubert’s Adagio (later renamed Notturno ), the theme of love is addressed in Ingeborg Bachmann’s poem Erklär mir Liebe (“Explain love to me”) and in Rilke’s Liebes-Lied (“Love Song”), which features metaphors associated with string music. Allegro con fuoco is the tempo marking of the first movement in Chopin’s Piano Trio, Op. 8. As if the poem had been listening to the music, it starts out with a “Fortissimo”, the title of Elke Lasker-Schuler’s poem Du spieltest ein ungestümes Lied (“You played me a wild song”)....
(Excerpt from the booklet notes by Brigitte Landes)

Artist(s)

Katharina Thalbach (vocals)

Born in East Berlin in 1954, Katharina Thalbach practically “grew up in the theatre”: her mother was an actress and her father was a stage director. Her mother died when she was only twelve, and Helene Weigel, the widow of Bertolt Brecht, took Katharina under her wing and provided her with a training contract as a master pupil in drama. At age thirteen, Katharina gave her theatrical début as “Betty, the Whore” in Erich Engels’ staging of Brecht’s Threepenny Opera; from the age of fifteen she also alternatively took up Polly, one of the main roles. After finishing secondary school and obtaining her theatre diploma, Katharina Thalbach started performing at the Berliner Ensemble and at the Volksbühne (of which her father,...
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Born in East Berlin in 1954, Katharina Thalbach practically “grew up in the theatre”: her mother was an actress and her father was a stage director. Her mother died when she was only twelve, and Helene Weigel, the widow of Bertolt Brecht, took Katharina under her wing and provided her with a training contract as a master pupil in drama. At age thirteen, Katharina gave her theatrical début as “Betty, the Whore” in Erich Engels’ staging of Brecht’s Threepenny Opera; from the age of fifteen she also alternatively took up Polly, one of the main roles.
After finishing secondary school and obtaining her theatre diploma, Katharina Thalbach started performing at the Berliner Ensemble and at the Volksbühne (of which her father, Benno Besson, was the director). After her first TV appearance at the age of four in the movie Begegnung im Dunkel, Katharina played further child roles for television, occasionally alongside her mother. In 1973 she gave birth to Anna, who likewise became an actress: in recent years, mother and daughter have frequently been featured together in joint roles.
Katharina Thalbach performed in stagings by Siegfried Kühn, Egon Günther, Charlotte Buff, Konrad Wolf, Peter Hacks, and Karge-Langhoff.

In December 1976, one month after the expatriation of renowned East German singer-songwriter Wolf Biermann from the GDR, Katharina Thalbach moved to West Berlin along with her partner Thomas Brasch, a critical author who had fallen out of favor with the East German regime. She gave her West German acting début upon the Schiller Theatre Workshop Stage in 1978. Directors of the likes of Hans Lietzau, Jürgen Flimm, Ernst Wendt, Benno Besson, and Hans Neuenfels have chosen her to play major roles. In 1995, at the Théâtre de Chaillot in Paris she played the main role in Brecht’s Mutter Courage in a staging by Jérome Savary. Katharina Thalbach has played main roles in films directed by Margarethe von Trotta, Volker Schlöndorff, Hans W. Geisendörfer, Thomas Brasch, and Doris Dörrie. In the late 1980s she also started to direct plays herself (Macbeth, Mann ist Mann, Romeo and Juliet, As You Like It, Threepenny Opera, Der Hauptmann von Köpenick). Her latest staging was Brecht’s Arturo Ui at the Comédie Française in 2017. She has continued to perform roles for film and television: the latest in David Fritz’s 2018 film 100 Dinge.

Katharina Thalbach is a member of the German Film Academy, of the Hamburg Free Academy of the Arts, and of the Berlin Academy of the Arts. She has been awarded a number of outstanding German prizes including the Grimme Television Prize and the Berliner Zeitung Drama Critics’ Prize; in 2015 she received the German Federal Cross of Merit, and in 2018 she was knighted Officier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in Paris.


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Feininger Trio

In 2005, Adrian Oetiker (pianist) and the Berliner Philharmoniker Christoph Streuli (violinist) and David Riniker (violoncellist) founded the Feininger Trio. The patron saint of The Trio, Lyonel Feininger is also known as a graphic artist designer, painter and the co-founder of The Bauhaus. Feininger‘s Berlin studio was not far from the rehearsal site of the ensemble in the district of Berlin-Zehlendorf. The close proximity allowed him to feel closely connected as a personality as well as to his work. In addition to the stylistic variety, the three musicians embody warmth, expressiveness and sophistication. They also explore the border areas as part of the basis of their musical interpretations. From the critics, the Trio is repeatedly highlighted for their wide range of nuances and timbres, but also „for their...
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In 2005, Adrian Oetiker (pianist) and the Berliner Philharmoniker Christoph Streuli (violinist) and David Riniker (violoncellist) founded the Feininger Trio. The patron saint of The Trio, Lyonel Feininger is also known as a graphic artist designer, painter and the co-founder of The Bauhaus. Feininger‘s Berlin studio was not far from the rehearsal site of the ensemble in the district of Berlin-Zehlendorf.
The close proximity allowed him to feel closely connected as a personality as well as to his work.
In addition to the stylistic variety, the three musicians embody warmth, expressiveness and sophistication.
They also explore the border areas as part of the basis of their musical interpretations.
From the critics, the Trio is repeatedly highlighted for their wide range of nuances and timbres, but also „for their expressive and gripping game as well as intoxicating presentation“ (Fono Forum).
In addition to various concert podiums in Berlin, Hamburg, Salzburg, Munich and also smaller concert cycles, The Feiningers regularly play at the festivals in Baden Baden and Zurich and played their debut at the „Prague Printemps“ in 2019.
The Feininger Trio has been setting programmatic priorities for several years. Music from Bohemia in the center of their performances are released on CAvi-music in November 2013. In 2016/2017, the Feiningers turned to France with the Trios of Debussy and Ravel (May 2017, also on CAvi-music).
In co-production with Deutschlandfunk Kultur the Feiningers recorded the cycle of Brahms Trios, combined with the trios by Zemlinksy, Korngold and Krenek.
A special treat in German-speaking countries is the collaboration between the three musicians and the actress Katharina Thalbach.

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Composer(s)

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...
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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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Frédéric Chopin

Frédéric Chopin is one of the greatest composers of the Romantic piano tradition. He was a master in making the small form great. His ballades, mazurkas, polonaises, preludes, etudes and nocturnes all belong to the most popular standard works for piano ever written.  As a child prodigy, Chopin grew up in a middle class family, who lived among the literati of Warsaw. When in 1830 the November Uprising broke out in Poland, the twenty year old Chopin stayed in Vienna. He became an exile and never returned to his mother country. He eventually settled in Paris.  He avoided public concerts, but he did like performing in small settings, such as salons and at home for his friends. This way, Chopin built a...
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Frédéric Chopin is one of the greatest composers of the Romantic piano tradition. He was a master in making the small form great. His ballades, mazurkas, polonaises, preludes, etudes and nocturnes all belong to the most popular standard works for piano ever written. As a child prodigy, Chopin grew up in a middle class family, who lived among the literati of Warsaw. When in 1830 the November Uprising broke out in Poland, the twenty year old Chopin stayed in Vienna. He became an exile and never returned to his mother country. He eventually settled in Paris. He avoided public concerts, but he did like performing in small settings, such as salons and at home for his friends. This way, Chopin built a reputation as an exceptional pianist, teacher and composer.
Chopin brought a unique synthesis between the Viennese bravado and the French/English lyric style. Even though his pieces often are technically very demanding, the focus was always on creating a lyric expression and poetic atmosphere. He invented the instrumental ballade, and brought salongenres to a higher level with his many innovations and refinements.


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01.
Adagio für Klaviertrio Es-Dur „Notturno“ D 897 (1827)
08:22
(Franz Schubert) Feininger Trio
02.
Rez: Ingeborg Bachmann Erklär’ mir Liebe
02:48
Katharina Thalbach
03.
Rez: Rainer Maria Rilke Die Liebenden
01:21
Katharina Thalbach
04.
Rez: Rainer Maria Rilke Liebes-Lied
01:00
Katharina Thalbach
05.
Klaviertrio g-Moll op. 8 (1829): I Allegro con fuoco
10:25
(Frédéric Chopin) Feininger Trio
06.
Rez: Else Lasker-Schüler Fortissimo
01:17
07.
Rez: Gottfried Benn Liebe
01:08
Katharina Thalbach
08.
Rez: Else Lasker-Schüler Die Liebe
00:52
Katharina Thalbach
09.
Rez: Else Lasker-Schüler Ouvertüre
01:14
Katharina Thalbach
10.
Rez: Gottfried Benn Noch einmal
00:52
Katharina Thalbach
11.
Klaviertrio g-Moll op. 8: II Scherzo. Vivace - Trio
06:38
(Frédéric Chopin) Feininger Trio
12.
Klaviertrio g-Moll op. 8: III Adagio. Sostenuto
05:10
(Frédéric Chopin) Feininger Trio
13.
Rez: Gottfried Benn Auf deine Lider senk’ ich Schlummer
00:54
Katharina Thalbach
14.
Rez: Else Lasker-Schüler Mein Tanzlied
00:39
Katharina Thalbach
15.
Rez: Gottfried Benn Rosen
00:45
Katharina Thalbach
16.
Rez: Else Lasker-Schüler Als ich Tristan kennen lernte
00:42
Katharina Thalbach
17.
Rez: Else Lasker-Schüler An den Gralprinzen
00:27
Katharina Thalbach
18.
Rez: Else Lasker-Schüler An den Prinzen Tristan
00:40
Katharina Thalbach
19.
Rez: Else Lasker-Schüler An den Ritter aus Gold
00:56
Katharina Thalbach
20.
Rez: Else Lasker-Schüler An Tristan
00:37
Katharina Thalbach
21.
Rez: Else Lasker-Schüler Abschied
00:56
Katharina Thalbach
22.
Rez: Gottfried Benn Madonna
00:49
Katharina Thalbach
23.
Rez: Gottfried Benn Bitte wo -
00:44
Katharina Thalbach
24.
Rez: Else Lasker-Schüler Was hat die Lieb mit der Saison zu tun
00:20
Katharina Thalbach
25.
Klaviertrio g-Moll op. 8: IV Finale. Allegretto
05:48
(Frédéric Chopin) Feininger Trio
26.
Rez: William Shakespeare Sonett 23
01:12
Katharina Thalbach
27.
Rez: William Shakespeare Sonett 43
01:04
Katharina Thalbach
28.
Rez: William Shakespeare Sonett 56
01:02
Katharina Thalbach
29.
Rez: Bertolt Brecht Die Liebenden
01:57
Katharina Thalbach
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