This release by Austrian baritone Adrian Eröd is the first in a series devoted to Liszt's complete songs, undertaken in connection with the 200th anniversary of the composer's birth in 2011. It's a worthwhile project inasmuch as Liszt's songs are among the least-known aspects of his output, and no fewer than five of the songs here, including the limpid title track, are premiere recordings. One is anxious to learn more about some of them, such as the English-language setting of Tennyson's Go not, happy day, or the impressive ...
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This release by Austrian baritone Adrian Eröd is the first in a series devoted to Liszt's complete songs, undertaken in connection with the 200th anniversary of the composer's birth in 2011. It's a worthwhile project inasmuch as Liszt's songs are among the least-known aspects of his output, and no fewer than five of the songs here, including the limpid title track, are premiere recordings. One is anxious to learn more about some of them, such as the English-language setting of Tennyson's Go not, happy day, or the impressive quasi-dramatic Le juif errant (The Wandering Jew, track 14), but the booklet (in English and German), despite the presence of two separate essays, is almost no help. The two annotators can't even agree on the value of the Liszt song repertory as a whole, with one writing that "Liszt's Lieder are not in fact part of the canon of the masterpieces of musical history," while the other praises them as exemplars of the essence of his art. Both suggest that the songs are crucial to...
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