Visions Of Childhood - Music Of Mahler, Wagner, Humperdinck & Schubert

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Release Date: 05 February 2021

Label: Nimbus Records - Cd / Nimbus Records

Packaging Type: Jewel Case

No of Units: 1

Barcode: 710357640827

Genres: Classical Chamber Music

Composer/Series: Visions of Childhood - Music of Mahler, Wagner, Humperdinck & Schubert

Description
Given that this programme was to be an exploration of childhood, the obvious place to start is with birth. Richard Wagner wrote his Siegfried Idyll as a birthday present for his wife, Cosima, just after the birth of their son, Siegfried. Nowhere else in music is there so tender an evocation of those fragile, precious and fraught first days and weeks of life. Engelbert Humperdinck’s great children’s opera, Hänsel und Gretel, a quasi-Wagnerian setting of the classic Brothers Grimm fairy tale, tells the story of two children in peril. The opera was composed in 1891-2. The two selections I have adapted come from Act II, Scene 2. “Die Forelle” (“The Trout”) is one of Schubert’s simplest and most popular songs, composed in 1817, when Schubert was just 20, to words by Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart. I have combined the three verses of the song with several, but not all, of the variations in the Trout Quintet, choosing to alternate strophes of the song with variations from the quintet that I thought suited the mood of the lyrics...