This is the first album of song from acclaimed bass-baritone and King's College alumnus Christopher Purves, alongside one of the UK's finest pianists, Simon Lepper. Lieder by Strauss, Schubert, Pfitzner and Mahler come to life in dramatic performances by one of opera's biggest names. Bach's popular Ich habe genug, extracts from Eisler's Hollywood Songbook and Weill's Das Berliner Requiem are recorded here in astonishing new sound worlds, with new orchestrations that include accordion, saxophone, guitar, flute and double bass.
5 Bach: Ich Habe Genug, BWV 82: I. Aria: Ich Habe Genug
6 Schubert: Der Sieg, D 805
7 Schubert: Totengräberlied, D 44
8 Schubert: Grenzen Der Menschheit
9 Schumann: Der Schatzgräber (Romanzen Und Balladen, Vol.1, Op.45, No.1)
10 Schumann: Frühlingsfahrt Op.45, No.2
11 Eisler: The Hollywood Songbook: No.21, L'automne Californien
12 Eisler: The Hollywood Songbook: No.3, An Den Kleinen Radioapparat
13 Eisler: The Hollywood Songbook: No.24, Hölderlin-Fragmente, V. An Eine Stadt
14 Mahler: Des Knaben Wunderhorn: XII. Der Tamboursg'sell
15 Weill: Das Berliner Requiem: V. Alles, Was Ich Euch Sagte
This is the first album of song from acclaimed bass-baritone and King's College alumnus Christopher Purves, alongside one of the UK's finest pianists, Simon Lepper. Lieder by Strauss, Schubert, Pfitzner and Mahler come to life in dramatic performances by one of opera's biggest names. Bach's popular Ich habe genug, extracts from Eisler's Hollywood Songbook and Weill's Das Berliner Requiem are recorded here in astonishing new sound worlds, with new orchestrations that include accordion, saxophone, guitar, flute and double bass.
