Hanns Eisler - Ernste Gesange, Lieder with Piano
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Label: Harmonia Mundi
Cat No: HMC902134
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Vocal/Choral
Release Date: 2nd September 2013
Contents
Works
An den kleinen RadioapparatBallade vom Wasserrad
Der Kirschdieb
Die Flucht
Die Heimkehr
Die Landschaft des Exils
Ernste Gesange (7) (Serious songs)
Fruhling
Hotelzimmer 1942
In der Fruhe
Lied von der belebenden Wirkung des Geldes
Ostersonntag
Solidaritatslied
Speisekammer 1942
Uber den Selbstmord
Und es sind die finstern Zeiten
Verfehlte Liebe
Vom Sprengen des Gartens
Artists
Matthias Goerne (baritone)Ensemble Resonanz
Conductor
Thomas LarcherWorks
An den kleinen RadioapparatBallade vom Wasserrad
Der Kirschdieb
Die Flucht
Die Heimkehr
Die Landschaft des Exils
Ernste Gesange (7) (Serious songs)
Fruhling
Hotelzimmer 1942
In der Fruhe
Lied von der belebenden Wirkung des Geldes
Ostersonntag
Solidaritatslied
Speisekammer 1942
Uber den Selbstmord
Und es sind die finstern Zeiten
Verfehlte Liebe
Vom Sprengen des Gartens
Artists
Matthias Goerne (baritone)Ensemble Resonanz
Conductor
Thomas LarcherAbout
From 1920s Vienna and the Berlin of the Weimar Republic to emigration to the USA, then back to Vienna after the defeat of Nazism, to end his days in East Berlin: Hanns Eisler’s life was one long exile against the backcloth of the artistic, technical and political revolutions of the 20th century. Distance, irony and melancholy are the aesthetic corollaries that characterise the lieder presented here, their atmosphere often evoking the despair of those dark times. The early piano sonata gained the young Eisler an admiration that has never dimmed.
Hanns Eisler was born in Leipzig on 6 July 1898 and went to school in Vienna. After two years as a common soldier in the First World War, he became a student of Arnold Schoenberg in 1919, dedicating his Sonata for Piano Op. 1 to his teacher in 1923. He moved to Berlin in 1925, where he composed for workers' choruses and agitprop groups and collaborated with Brecht (Die Maßnahme, Die Mutter) from 1928. Eisler initially moved to Paris then London, before taking exile in America from 1938, where he created his most significant chamber music works. Alongside music for eight Hollywood pictures, Eisler also composed his 'Hollywood Songbook' to texts by Brecht, Hölderlin and others while in California.
In 1948, Eisler returned to Europe, initially to Vienna and Prague and ultimately to East Berlin. Although he wrote the National Anthem of the GDR to a text by Johannes R Becher, conflict arose with GDR cultural bureaucracy when he published his libretto 'Johann Faustus' in late 1952.
In 1959, he witnessed the premiere of his 'Deutsche Symphonie', mostly composed while in exile, at the State Opera Unter den Linden. He died on 6 September 1962 in East Berlin.
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