Fanie Antonelou & Kerstin Mork – Affinities: Greek and German Art Songs (2019) [FLAC 24bit/96kHz]

Fanie Antonelou & Kerstin Mörk – Affinities: Greek and German Art Songs (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:03:33 minutes | 989 MB | Genre: Classical
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The Greek soprano Fanie Antonelou and German pianist Kerstin Mörk here join forces in an exciting project, entitled ‘Affinities’. In a carefully constructed sequence of 23 songs, they explore the kinship between Greek and German art songs – a varied one, filtered through friendships, family connections and teacher-pupil relationships.

All the composers represented on the disc studied and/or worked in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in the three great German-speaking musical centres – Vienna, Munich and Berlin – and include figures both well known (Schoenberg, Weill, Skalkottas and Mitropoulos) and less familiar (Emilios Riadis, Dimitrios Lialios, Ludwig Thuille). With twelve composers and even more poets involved, the subject matter of the individual songs is diverse indeed – from a café scene in Berlin (Der Abschiedsbrief by Kurt Weill in cabaret mode) to a hymn to Aphrodite, set by Dimitri Mitropoulos in a highly expressionistic free atonal idiom inspired by Schoenberg.

Tracklist:
1. 20 Songs of the Greek People (Excerpts): No. 2, To Erináki (1:37)
2. 20 Songs of the Greek People (Excerpts): No. 19, Méra mérosse (2:48)
3. 20 Songs of the Greek People (Excerpts): No. 10, To mávro yemení (1:32)
4. 20 Songs of the Greek People (Excerpts): No. 16, Apópse ta messánichta (2:28)
5. Des Mädchens Klage (3:03)
6. Mädel, kommst du mit zum Tanz? (1:45)
7. Nun schwillt der See so bang (1:42)
8. The State and Solitude, Book 4: No. 4, I neraidoparméni (6:19)
9. Erwartung, Op. 2 No. 1 (4:04)
10. Mädchenlied, Op. 48 No. 3 (2:31)
11. O thánatos tou náfti (2:48)
12. Afrodíti Uranía (3:46)
13. Der Abschiedsbrief (3:44)
14. Klops Lied (0:59)
15. 5 Lieder, Op. 15: No. 2, Ich hört ein Sichlein rauschen (2:31)
16. I lafína (3:47)
17. Mariae Sehnsucht, Op. 59 No. 5 (3:48)
18. 9 Short Greek Songs (Excerpts): No. 8, Mágissa (1:59)
19. 9 Short Greek Songs (Excerpts): No. 4, Missiriótissa (1:51)
20. The State and Solitude, Book 4: No. 3, I neráida (1:45)
21. The Lute and Stick: No. 3, Rumeliótissa (3:53)
22. 3 Frauenlieder, Op. 5: No. 1, Klage (3:05)
23. 4 Lieder, Op. 7: No.1, Es erklingt wie Liebestöne (1:56)

Personnel:
Fanie Antonelou (soprano)
Kerstin Mörk (piano)

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