Josef Weigl - Songs and Arias
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Label: Delos
Cat No: DE3453
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Vocal/Choral
Release Date: 2nd September 2013
Contents
Works
La clemenza di Tito, K621Daniel in der Lowengrube
Il Sogno (The dream)
In questa tomba oscura (In this dark tomb)
L'amor marinaro ossia Il corsaro
Ostade oder Adrian von Ostad
Trost an meine Mutter (Consolation for my Mother)
Artists
Donald George (tenor)Lucy Mauro (piano)
Works
La clemenza di Tito, K621Daniel in der Lowengrube
Il Sogno (The dream)
In questa tomba oscura (In this dark tomb)
L'amor marinaro ossia Il corsaro
Ostade oder Adrian von Ostad
Trost an meine Mutter (Consolation for my Mother)
Artists
Donald George (tenor)Lucy Mauro (piano)
About
Few are aware that Josef Weigl (1766-1846) was both an acclaimed conductor and a highly successful composer whose fame – in his day – rivalled that of Cherubini, Rossini, Haydn and even Beethoven.
The godson of Haydn (who encouraged his talent), Weigl became a master of two different styles, first gaining recognition as a composer of opera in the Italian manner. But, with the dawning of the 19th century, he became increasingly known for his German operas – mainly in the lighter “Singspiel” form – that influenced generations of Romantic-era German composers to come.
All the while, he continued writing Italian opera for Milan’s La Scala and other venues to considerable acclaim. His attractive, lively and melodious music in both styles catered to his era’s more popular tastes. But his operas’ general lack of serious themes and musical drama failed to establish him as a “serious” composer, and his remarkable music – sadly – soon drifted into obscurity.
Tenor Donald George and pianist Lucy Mauro have lately made it their musical mission in life to merge their talents in support of music by neglected, yet deserving composers. Most recently, they have teamed up to record for Delos the music of two pioneering, yet unjustly forgotten female tunesmiths of the late Romantic period: the Boston-based Margaret Ruthven Lang and Vienna’s Mathilde von Kralik.
Here, working in cooperation with a concert series sponsored by the Esterházy Estate in Eisenstadt (Weigl’s birthplace), they offer an enchanting mix of his lieder and arias – with the bonus offering of several interpolated arias from other well-known composers of his day. Mr George’s burnished tenor voice is in top form, and Ms Mauro provides lively, sensitive and historically informed support from a sweet-sounding fortepiano.
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