Is there a subgroup of works among the creations of top composers that has been more neglected than Mozart's songs? They're neglected partly because they're a very mixed bag; they were mostly composed for specific purposes, and they don't develop as a group in an orderly way as do, say, the piano concertos. At any rate, any new recording of Mozart's songs is good to have -- the album title referring to "Lieder" is a bit misleading, for there are songs in French and Italian here as well as German. There are some real ...
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Is there a subgroup of works among the creations of top composers that has been more neglected than Mozart's songs? They're neglected partly because they're a very mixed bag; they were mostly composed for specific purposes, and they don't develop as a group in an orderly way as do, say, the piano concertos. At any rate, any new recording of Mozart's songs is good to have -- the album title referring to "Lieder" is a bit misleading, for there are songs in French and Italian here as well as German. There are some real masterpieces among the 22 songs included here (out of about three dozen Mozart wrote). Plunge right into Abendempfindung (Evening Emotion), K. 522, for one of the finest of the group, with a flexibility of melodic line that strongly suggests Schubert -- and for an example of the unusual but persuasive approach to the songs employed here by Québec soprano Suzie LeBlanc and fortepianist Yannick Nézet-Séguin. They apparently have concluded that the obstacle to appreciating Mozart's songs is...
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