Fatma Said – Lieder (2025)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:09:14 minutes | 1,29 GB | Genre: Classical
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Previously, soprano Fatma Said’s latest albums, El Nour and Kaleidoscope crossed cultures and musical genres, her new album Lieder instead focuses on German-language songs of the Romantic era: lieder by Schubert, Mendelssohn, Schumann and Brahms.Fatma has immersed herself in lieder since she was 18, having attended German-speaking schools in her birth city of Cairo, she became a student at the Hanns Eisler Conservatory in Berlin. “Ever since then, the joy of singing this genre has been central to my musical life,” she writes, “I am very passionate about lieder … This wonderful combination of great German poetry and genius composers like Schubert, Schumann, Mendelssohn, and Brahms.” In the conventional course of things, a lieder recital involves one singer and one pianist, but Fatma Said takes a characteristically imaginative approach with this album. “I’ve always wanted to make music with friends,” she continues, “When you share similar artistic values, the performances are on a very special level.”
Tracklist:
1-01. Fatma Said – Schwanengesang, D. 957: No. 4, Ständchen (03:45)
1-02. Fatma Said – Der Hirt auf dem Felsen, D. 965 (11:25)
1-03. Fatma Said – Ständchen, D. 920 “Zögernd leise” (05:05)
1-04. Fatma Said – 6 Gesänge, Op. 86: No. 3, Die Liebende schreibt, MWV K66 (02:56)
1-05. Fatma Said – Auf dem Wasser zu singen, Op. 72, D. 774 (03:38)
1-06. Fatma Said – Der Zwerg, D. 771 (05:39)
1-07. Fatma Said – 12 Gesänge, Op. 8: No. 8, Hexenlied, MWV K33 (02:17)
1-08. Fatma Said – 6 Gesänge, Op. 34: No. 4, Suleika, MWV K92 (02:36)
1-09. Fatma Said – 6 Duette, Op. 63: No. 1, Ich wollt’, meine Lieb’ ergösse sich, MWV J5 (02:02)
1-10. Fatma Said – Suleika und Hatem (From Felix Mendelssohn’s Op. 8) (02:51)
1-11. Fatma Said – 4 Lieder, Op. 70: No. 2, Lerchengesang (Version with Harp) (02:24)
1-12. Fatma Said – 5 Lieder, Op. 105: No. 1, Wie Melodien zieht es mir (Version with Harp) (02:03)
1-13. Fatma Said – 49 Deutsche Volkslieder, WoO 33, Vol. 1: No. 6, Da unten im Thale (Version with Harp) (01:45)
1-14. Fatma Said – 5 Lieder, Op. 105: No. 2, Immer leiser wird mein Schlummer (Version with Harp) (02:52)
1-15. Fatma Said – 5 Ophelia-Lieder, WoO 22: No. 1, Wie erkenn ich dein Treulieb (Arr. Reimann for Voice and String Quartet) (00:45)
1-16. Fatma Said – 5 Ophelia-Lieder, WoO 22: No. 2, Sein Leichenhemd Weiss wie Schnee zu sehn (Arr. Reimann for Voice and String Quartet) (00:27)
1-17. Fatma Said – 5 Ophelia-Lieder, WoO 22: No. 3, Auf morgen ist sankt Valentins Tag (Arr. Reimann for Voice and String Quartet) (00:56)
1-18. Fatma Said – 5 Ophelia-Lieder, WoO 22: No. 4, Sie trugen ihn auf der Bahre bloss (Arr. Reimann for Voice and String Quartet) (00:52)
1-19. Fatma Said – 5 Ophelia-Lieder, WoO 22: No. 5, Und kommt er nicht mehr zurück (Arr. Reimann for Voice and String Quartet) (01:24)
1-20. Fatma Said – Myrthen, Op. 25: No. 1, Widmung (02:25)
1-21. Fatma Said – Lieder und Gesänge aus Wilhelm Meister, Op. 98a “Lieder für Mignon”: No. 7, Singet nicht in Trauertönen (02:13)
1-22. Fatma Said – 4 Duette, Op. 34: No. 3, Wer ist vor meiner Kammertür? (01:30)
1-23. Fatma Said – 5 Lieder, Op. 51: No. 5, Liebeslied (02:05)
1-24. Fatma Said – Spanisches Liederspiel, Op. 74: No. 4, In der Nacht (05:07)