Mahler: Rückert-Lieder, Wagner

Quatuor Schumann

AECD 0858

A persecuted revolutionary, Richard Wagner had to flee Dresden in 1849 and finally took refuge in Zurich after an intermezzo in Paris. Here he met the factory owners Otto and Mathilde Wesendonck in 1852, with whom he soon became close friends. An intimate relationship soon developed between Wagner and Mathilde Wesendonck, which became artistically extremely fruitful for the composer: It was under the impression of their relationship that the musical drama Tristan und Isolde was created, and after poems by Mathilde Wesendonck that Wagner wrote his only song cycle, the Wesendonck Lieder, two of which he himself described as studies on Tristan und Isolde. Originally written as piano songs, Wagner himself orchestrated one of the songs, his pupil Felix Mottl made an instrumentation of the cycle, which sounds here in an arrangement with piano quartet.

CD

Muzyka klasyczna

Aeon

29-01-2008

3760058368589

Diapason: 5 diapasons

Gramophone: 'Editor´s Choice'