Katharina Konradi & Daniel Heide

Liebende

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Label: CAvi
UPC: 4260085531714
Catnr: AVI 8553171
Release date: 05 March 2021
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CAvi
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AVI 8553171
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05 March 2021
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About the album

Liebende…..
Personal notes by the artists on the program, which focusses on the theme of „lovers“
Strauss, Mozart, Schubert – What do these composers mean to you?


Katharina Konradi
The labels “Mozart soprano” and “Strauss soprano” are often said to be practically indistinguishable. Indeed, in terms of melodic style, the two composers are not that far apart. Mozart suits my voice well, and the same is true of Richard Straus’s light lyrical repertoire.

Then Schubert, with his astoundingly vast lieder output and his variety of musical expression, holds a special place for me. Every time I prepare a recital, these almost inexhaustible treasures take me on a delightful journey of surprising discoveries, and that is what my life as a lieder interpreter is all about.….. Every piece on this CD has a special appeal for me.

Daniel Heide:
For a pianist, Mozart and Schubert are a matter of course! Mozart wrote a number of keyboard sonatas (and the violin sonatas!) along with a multitude of piano concertos: his Lieder come as an added attraction. They are marvelous gems. And any pianist who decides to go further than Schubert’s solo piano works in order to delve into his seemingly infinite world of 600 Lieder-treasures comes out a happier man.

In every Strauss song I find that the timbre is unique: an atmosphere you can experience only in Strauss territory, that special luminosity of sound, the silvery tone.……….

Mozart’s, Schubert’s, and Strauss’s songs are core German lieder repertoire, and they are pivotal and essential material for singers worldwide.

Mozart and Strauss are the linchpins and cornerstones of our soprano careers on the opera stage…… (Excerpts from the booklet interview with both artists)

Artist(s)

Daniel Heide (piano)

Born in Weimar, pianist Daniel Heide is one of the vocal accompanists and chamber musicians most in demand on the current international music scene, making appearances throughout Europe as well as in the Far East. Heide studied at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in his hometown with Prof. Ludwig Bätzel, and received valuable counsel from outstanding artists including Christa Ludwig and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. He collaborates on a regular basis with renowned vocalists including Andrè Schuen, Christoph Prégardien, Konstantin Krimmel, Julian Prégardien, Simone Kermes, Katharina Konradi, Patrick Grahl, Ingeborg Danz, Britta Schwarz, Johannes Weisser, Roman Trekel, and Natalie Perez. Heide also collaborated as a duo partner with the late German-Greek mezzo-soprano Stella Doufexis: their CD Poemes with artsongs by Claude Debussy was awarded the German Record Critics’ Prize. In...
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Born in Weimar, pianist Daniel Heide is one of the vocal accompanists and chamber musicians most in demand on the current international music scene, making appearances throughout Europe as well as in the Far East. Heide studied at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in his hometown with Prof. Ludwig Bätzel, and received valuable counsel from outstanding artists including Christa Ludwig and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau.
He collaborates on a regular basis with renowned vocalists including Andrè Schuen, Christoph Prégardien, Konstantin Krimmel, Julian Prégardien, Simone Kermes, Katharina Konradi, Patrick Grahl, Ingeborg Danz, Britta Schwarz, Johannes Weisser, Roman Trekel, and Natalie Perez.
Heide also collaborated as a duo partner with the late German-Greek mezzo-soprano Stella Doufexis: their CD Poemes with artsongs by Claude Debussy was awarded the German Record Critics’ Prize.
In chamber music he gives public performances with soloists including Tabea Zimmermann, Antje Weithaas, Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt, Jens Peter Maintz, Friedemann Eichhorn, Andreas Willwohl, Barbara Buntrock, Julian Steckel, Isang Enders, Konstanze von Gutzeit, Benoit Fromanger, Danjulo Ishizaka, and the Mandelring Quartett.
Heide laid a further foundation for his career as vocal accompanist in 2011, when he launched Der lyrische Salon at Ettersburg Castle near Weimar, a vocal recital series where he has accompanied a great number of outstanding singers on over 70 occasions.
Apart from his intense concert schedule, Heide’s activities are documented on a number of CD releases – most recently Dichterliebe with Patrick Grahl (CAvi, 2020), Liebende with Katharina Konradi (CAvi, 2021); Schubert‘s Die schöne Müllerin mit André Schuen released by DG (2021).
In 2016 André Schuen‘s first Lieder recital partnered with Daniel Heide received the ECHO, the album Wanderer 2019 the OPUS award (both CAvi-music). For the next years Daniel Heide is masterminding the 7 CD project with the complete songs by Franz Liszt subsequently folloed by a new work catalogue of Liszt‘s artsong output.
He also loves the genre of melodrama, working in spoken word programmes with actors and actresses of the likes of Christian Brückner, Thomas Thieme, Hanns Zischler, Markus Meyer, Sky Dumont, and Udo Samel.
For 13 years, Heide taught vocal accompaniment, chamber music, and instrumental accompaniment (Korrepetition) at the Hanns Eisler University of Music in Berlin and at the Hochschule für Musik FRANZ LISZT Weimar. He is currently much in demand giving masterclasses and private coaching in the same areas, also with the intent of promoting and supporting young vocal artists and their piano partners.
With the onset of the Corona pandemic in March 2020, Daniel Heide devoted more of his time to studying solo piano repertoire, focussing on sonatas by Beethoven and Schubert.

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Katharina Konradi (soprano)

Katharina Konradi was born in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, and is the first soprano from that country to have an international career as a lied, concert and opera singer. Since the beginning of the 2018/19 season, she has been a member of the ensemble of Hamburg State Opera, where she covers the major light lyric soprano roles onstage. In the same season she made her début as Zdenka in Arabella by Richard Strauss at the Semperoper in Dresden. In 2019 she was recruited to sing the Young Shepherd in Tannhäuser at Bayreuth. In the fall of 2018 Katharina Konradi was selected by the BBC New Generation Artists support and concert programme, and has formed part of it ever since. After having won First Prize at the renowned German...
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Katharina Konradi was born in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, and is the first soprano from that country to have an international career as a lied, concert and opera singer.
Since the beginning of the 2018/19 season, she has been a member of the ensemble of Hamburg State Opera, where she covers the major light lyric soprano roles onstage. In the same season she made her début as Zdenka in Arabella by Richard Strauss at the Semperoper in Dresden.

In 2019 she was recruited to sing the Young Shepherd in Tannhäuser at Bayreuth. In the fall of 2018 Katharina Konradi was selected by the BBC New Generation Artists support and concert programme, and has formed part of it ever since.
After having won First Prize at the renowned German National Music Competition (Deutscher Musikwettbewerb) in 2016, Konradi was engaged to guest with renowned orchestras including the NDR Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Orchestre de Paris, Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich, MDR RSO, Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, and the Bavarian RSO, collaborating with conductors such as Manfred Honeck, Paavo Järvi, Kent Nagano, and Daniel Harding. She is frequently invited to work together with the Balthasar Neumann Ensemble and their conductor Thomas Hengelbrock.
Katharina Konradi is committed to artsong. In a series of evening recital programmes she has made guest appearances in the Lieder series at Cologne Philharmonie, at the Schubertiada in Vilabertran, at Wigmore Hall in London, and at the Schubertiade in Hohenems (which is where she recorded her first solo CD). Lieder recitals at Hamburg Elbphilharmonie, at the Boulez Hall in Berlin, at the Heidelberg Spring Festival, and at the Schubertiade in Schwarzenberg are on her 2020/21 agenda.

Chamber music partners include the Schumann Quartet and Trio Gaspard. Katharina Konradi was Rolando Villazón’s guest in the ARTE TV program Stars of tomorrow, and was also interviewed by ARTE for a film documentary on Clara Schumann.


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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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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, whose actual name is Joannes Chrysotomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart, was a composer, pianist, violinist and conductor from the classical period, born in Salzburg. Mozart was a child prodigy. Already competent on keyboard and violin, he composed from the age of five and performed before European royalty. Along with Johann Sebastian Bach and Ludwig van Beethoven, Mozart is considered to be one of the most influential composers of all of music's history. Within the classical tradition, he was able to develop new musical concepts which left an everlasting impression on all the composers that came after him. Together with Joseph Haydn and Ludwig van Beethoven he is part of the First Viennese School.  At 17, Mozart was engaged as...
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, whose actual name is Joannes Chrysotomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart, was a composer, pianist, violinist and conductor from the classical period, born in Salzburg. Mozart was a child prodigy. Already competent on keyboard and violin, he composed from the age of five and performed before European royalty. Along with Johann Sebastian Bach and Ludwig van Beethoven, Mozart is considered to be one of the most influential composers of all of music's history. Within the classical tradition, he was able to develop new musical concepts which left an everlasting impression on all the composers that came after him. Together with Joseph Haydn and Ludwig van Beethoven he is part of the First Viennese School. At 17, Mozart was engaged as a musician at the Salzburg court, but grew restless and traveled in search of a better position. From 1763 he traveled with his family through all of Europe for three years and from 1769 he traveled to Italy and France with his father Leopold after which he took residence in Paris. On July 3rd, 1778, his mother passed away and after a short stay in Munich with the Weber family, his father urged him to return to Salzburg, where he was once again hired by the Bishop. While visiting Vienna in 1781, he was dismissed from his Salzburg position. He chose to stay in the capital, where he achieved fame but little financial security. During his final years in Vienna, he composed many of his best-known symphonies, concertos, and operas, and portions of the Requiem, which was largely unfinished at the time of his death.


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Richard Strauss

Richard Georg Strauss was a leading German composer of the late Romantic and early modern eras. He is known for his operas, which include Der Rosenkavalier, Elektra, Die Frau ohne Schatten and Salome; his Lieder, especially his  Four Last Songs; his tone poems, including Don Juan, Death and Transfiguration, and An Alpine Symphony; and other instrumental works such as Metamorphosen and his Oboe Concerto. Strauss was also a prominent conductor in Western Europe and the Americas, enjoying quasi-celebrity status as his compositions became standards of orchestral and operatic repertoire. Strauss, along with Gustav Mahler, represents the late flowering of German Romanticism after Richard Wagner, in which pioneering subtleties of orchestration are combined with an advanced harmonic style.
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Richard Georg Strauss was a leading German composer of the late Romantic and early modern eras. He is known for his operas, which include Der Rosenkavalier, Elektra, Die Frau ohne Schatten and Salome; his Lieder, especially his Four Last Songs; his tone poems, including Don Juan, Death and Transfiguration, and An Alpine Symphony; and other instrumental works such as Metamorphosen and his Oboe Concerto. Strauss was also a prominent conductor in Western Europe and the Americas, enjoying quasi-celebrity status as his compositions became standards of orchestral and operatic repertoire.
Strauss, along with Gustav Mahler, represents the late flowering of German Romanticism after Richard Wagner, in which pioneering subtleties of orchestration are combined with an advanced harmonic style.

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