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1 Tout n’est qu’images fugitives (Soupir) Richard Wagner 2:14
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2 Meine Ruh ist hin Richard Wagner 3:12
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3 Der Tannenbaum Richard Wagner 3:07
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Trois MélodiesRichard Wagner 3 movements7:42
- 4 Dors, mon enfant 2:41
- 5 Mignonne 3:04
- 6 L’attente 1:57
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7 Gruss seiner Treuen an Friedrich August den Geliebten Richard Wagner 6:20
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Fünf Gedichte von Mathilde WesendonckRichard Wagner 5 movements22:00
- 8 Der Engel 3:32
- 9 Stehe still! 3:48
- 10 Im Treibhaus 6:29
- 11 Schmerzen 2:41
- 12 Träume 5:30
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13 Sommer Op. 9: No. 6 Erich Wolfgang Korngold 2:52
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14 Liebesbriefchen Op. 9: No. 4 Erich Wolfgang Korngold 3:07
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15 Gefaßter Abschied Op. 14: No. 4 Erich Wolfgang Korngold 4:20
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16 Sterbelied, Op. 14: No. 1 Erich Wolfgang Korngold 4:49
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17 My Mistress’ Eyes (Sonnet CXXX), Op. 38: No. 5 Erich Wolfgang Korngold 2:57
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18 Unvergänglichkeit Op. 27: No. 1 Erich Wolfgang Korngold 3:01
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Songs of the Clown, Op. 29Erich Wolfgang Korngold 5 movements11:06
- 19 Come Away Death 2:31
- 20 O Mistress Mine 2:56
- 21 Adieu, Good Man Devil :53
- 22 Hey, Robin 1:05
- 23 For the Rain, It Raineth Every Day 3:41
Many of the songs are Australian premiere recordings, and two are world premieres: Korngold’s Sommer Op. 9 No. 6 and Wagner’s Gruss seiner Treuen an Friedrich August den Geliebten.
Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897–1957) won lasting fame as a Hollywood film composer after leaving Austria for America in 1934. Admired from childhood, he was named in a 1928 Vienna newspaper poll, with Schoenberg, as one of the two greatest living composers. His lieder span his whole career. This programme gathers some of his finest songs, including numbers from the four Farewell Songs (Abschiedslieder), which speak of the longing of parted lovers, and the cycle Twelfth Night: Songs of the Clown, set to Shakespeare’s texts from Twelfth Night.
Wagner’s small song output is striking given his passion for poetry and his abundance elsewhere. When he turned to lieder he usually had a clear reason. In 1857, at the height of his powers, he wrote the Wesendonck Lieder after falling in love with the poet Mathilde Wesendonck. Their musical complexity and dramatic heat stand with his mature stage works. The remaining Wagner songs here come mostly from his formative years and mirror his character and circumstances of the time.
The City of Melbourne Song Recital Award was founded in 1995 by Mietta O’Donnell and Tony Knox to revive professional art-song performance in Australia and the Asia Pacific region. Move Records sponsors the award by giving the winner the chance to record and release a CD of vocal works of their choice.
Reviews
we hear a voice as rich and subtle as ’30s star Rosa Ponselle...
This CD is a perfect showcase for her beautiful versatile voice.
Johnston affords the ear sheer pleasure with the ebb and flow of her interpretations... If you choose this CD you will not be disappointed.
reveals a voice of extraordinary richness.
Artists
Adele Johnston
soprano
Adele Johnston was a versatile artist excelling in a variety of genres including cabaret, musical comedy, opera, operetta, concert and lieder recitals. In 1997 she won the prestigious City of Melbourne Song Recital Award and the opportunity to record a CD with Move Records. She died unexpectedly in 2025, age 66.
Andrew Greene
pianoforte
Andrew Greene is one of Australia's most versatile musicians. He has conducted over thirty-six operas in over fifty different productions for every opera company in Australia. He has appeared in concert with all of the symphony orchestras and has conducted many works in the genres of operetta and musicals. As a pianist he has acted as accompanist in everything from lieder recitals to cabaret and has made many recordings as an accompanist and conductor.
Erich Wolfgang Korngold
composer
Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897–1957) was an Austrian-born composer of opera, lieder, concert works and Hollywood film scores. A child prodigy in Vienna who later took American nationality, he helped define the lush late-Romantic sound of the studio-era film score.
William Shakespeare
composer
William Shakespeare's sonnets and the songs embedded in his plays remain living lyric for composers. On these recordings his words surface in art song, lieder and choral settings that still carry love, wit, jealousy and foolery.
Richard Wagner
composer
Richard Wagner forged music drama in which continuous song, orchestra and stage action move as one. Leitmotifs, dense chromatic harmony and blazing brass drive the Ring cycle, Tristan and the mature stage works that still shape how opera sounds.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
composer
Elisabeth Honold
composer
Victor Hugo
composer
Ernst Lothar
composer
Joe Reboul
composer
Pierre de Ronsard
composer
Christine Rosetti-Kerr
composer
Georg Scheurlin
composer
Eleonore van der Straaten
composer
Siegfried Trebitsch
composer
Mathilde Wesendonck
composer
Digital booklet
Digital booklet Notes, texts and credits — read online or download the PDF Download the PDFPerformers
- Adele Johnston · soprano
- Andrew Greene · pianoforte
Technical credits
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Recording Engineer
Martin Wright
Vaughan McAlley
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Venue
Move Records Studio
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Thanks to
Song Recital Award
Details
- List price
- $25.00 AUD
- Total playing time
- 76 minutes 47 seconds
- Release date
- 1998
- Categories
- Classical, Vocal
- Musical work copyright
- © 1998 Move Records
- Sound recording copyright
- ℗ 1998 Move Records
- Catalogue
- MD 3203
- EAN
- 9314574320329
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