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»The sound of the thinker«
Settings on poems from Friedrich Nietzsche
brhCD1603
Peter Schöne, baritone
Moritz Eggert, piano
CD release on February 26, 2017
Available at jpc and eClassical.
With 28 songs by nine composers, the singer Peter Schöne and the pianist Moritz Eggert have explored new perspectives on Friedrich Nietzsche's lyrical work and its musical adaptation. The music was of great importance to Nietzsche. In 1888 he wrote in a letter the famous sentence: »Life without music is simply an error, a strain, an exile.«
A lot of composers were inspired by Friedrich Nietzsche's poems. For this CD album compositions from Gustav Krug, Arnold Schönberg, Richard Trunk, Nikolai Medtner, Karl Weigl, Paul Hindemith, Ernst Pepping, Peter Ruzicka and Wolfgang Rihm were selected. That shows a spectrum from the turn of the century through the Second Viennese School and the Modern Age to the present.
Tracklist
Nikolai Medtner (1879–1951):
Zwei Gedichte von Nietzsche, op. 19 a
01 No. 1: Heimkehr
02 No. 2: Verzweiflung
Nikolai Medtner (1879–1951):
Drei Gedichte von Nietzsche, op. 19
03 No. 1: Gruß
04 No. 2: Alt Mütterlein
05 No. 3: Heimweh
Gustav Krug (1874–1951):
06 Die Sonne sinkt
07 Venedig
Arnold Schönberg (1874–1951):
08 Der Wanderer, op. 6 Nr. 8
Paul Hindemith (1895–1981):
09 Die Sonne sinkt
10 Unter Feinden
Ernst Pepping (1901–1981):
11 Der Einsamste
Wolfgang Rihm (* 1951):
Sechs Gedichte von Friedrich Nietzsche (2001)
12 No. 1: Der Einsamste
13 No. 2: Der Herbst
14 No. 3: Der Wandrer
15 No. 4: Der Wandrer
16 No. 5: Der Wandrer und sein Schatten
17 No. 6: Venedig
Peter Ruzicka (* 1948):
Acht Gesänge nach Fragmenten von Nietzsche
18 No. 1: Die Sonne
19 No. 2: Selbsthenker
20 No. 3: Es erhob sich ein Geschrei
21 No. 4: Die Wüste wächst
22 No. 5: Siebente Einsamkeit
23 No. 6: Hohl, Höhle
24 No. 7: Tag meines Lebens
25 No. 8: Ich sehe hinauf
Richard Trunk (1879–1968):
26 Ecce Homo
Karl Weigl (1881–1949):
27 Der Einsamste
28 Der Tag klingt ab