German vocal sextet Die Singphoniker has made the genre of the German partsong its own, recording examples from Schubert forward through the rest of the 19th century. Some of the repertoire it has recorded was probably written with a men's choir in mind, but the partsong was a semi-popular genre, and one-to-a-part performance in social halls or living rooms was surely common enough. In that medium, you get to enjoy the group's unnamed first tenor's startling mastery over the perilously high lines in the songs here. The ...
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German vocal sextet Die Singphoniker has made the genre of the German partsong its own, recording examples from Schubert forward through the rest of the 19th century. Some of the repertoire it has recorded was probably written with a men's choir in mind, but the partsong was a semi-popular genre, and one-to-a-part performance in social halls or living rooms was surely common enough. In that medium, you get to enjoy the group's unnamed first tenor's startling mastery over the perilously high lines in the songs here. The general neglect of the partsong repertory, a key part of German and German-American musical life in the 19th century, is nowhere more vividly shown than in the reception of the works of Josef Rheinberger (1839-1901), who wrote a good number of them. All but two pieces here are world recorded premieres, and all are delightful. Musically, Rheinberger's songs lie somewhere between Schubert's (some of which are quite unexpectedly complex) and the simplicity of Brahms' Liebeslieder Wälzer. A...
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