Utwory na płycie:

• Ich atmet' einen linden Duft

CD I:
Mahler:
Five Songs by Friedrich Rückert

Loewe:
Four Songs from Op. 9

Wagner:
Gretchen am Spinnrade

Wesendonck Lieder

Brahms:
Eight Gypsy Songs from Op. 103

CD II:
Schubert:
Songs (D. 852, 742, 291, 828, 450, 59, 807, 527, 653, 296, 762)

Schumann:
Jemand
Das verlassene Mägdlein
Die Waise
Weihnachtslied
Die wandelnde Glocke
Gedichte der Königin Maria Stuart

CD III:
C. P. E. Bach:
Jesus in Gethsemane

Weihnachtslied

J. W. Franck:
Sei nur still
Auf, auf zu Gottes Lob

Haydn:
Arianna a Naxos

Britten:
A Charm of Lullabies

Barber:
Mélodies Passageres

Poulenc:
La Fraîcheur et le Feu
Le Travail du Peintre

?Maureen Forrester was one of the few renowned alto singers during the period after 1945. In her singing, fullness and euphony of sound was combined with an extraordinary beauty of line and expression of the very greatest refinement. Encouraged and supported by Bruno Walter, she became one of the most important Mahler interpreters of her time, performing with all the great conductors from Fritz Reiner to Lorin Maazel and from George Szell to Zubin Mehta.

These recordings, released here for the first time, document her activities in the area of Lieder with piano accompaniment to an extent unparalleled elsewhere and include her collaboration with the legendary accompanist Michael Raucheisen. The repertoire ranges from the pre-Bach era and central contributions to the genre - by Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, Wagner and Mahler - to Britten and Poulenc.

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