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Johann Vesque Von Puttlingen: Unerhort! Romantische Lieder ('romantic Songs')

Klaus Mertens; Volodymyr Lavrynenko

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Format: CD

Cat No: ROP6256

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Release Date:  20 September 2024

Label:  Rondeau - Cd / Rondeau Production

Packaging Type:  Jewel Case

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  4037408062565

Genres:  Classical  Chamber Music  

Composer/Series:  Johann Vesque von Puttlingen

  • Description

    During his lifetime, Johann Vesque von Puttlingen was both an accomplished lawyer and a celebrated composer, renowned even beyond his native Vienna. Shortly after his death, however, he and his music were quickly forgotten. The distinguished bass-baritone Klaus Mertens and pianist Volodymyr Lavrynenko show that this was perhaps unjustified with their recording of selected romantic songs by Puttlingen, including some first recordings, under the motto "Unheard!". The songs are grouped around four core themes of Romanticism: love, farewell, pain and death. They are all based on texts by well-known contemporary poets, including Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Franz Grillparzer and Adelbert von Chamisso, but above all Heinrich Heine, whose "romantic irony" von Puttlingen also knew how to translate musically. Von Puttlingen's clear musical language follows in the footsteps of Franz Schubert's lieder. Klaus Mertens and Volodymyr Lavrynenko interpret the sometimes lively and entertaining, sometimes gloomy and melancholy songs in a multifaceted manner.