Udo Samel – Venetian Journey – A Musical Diary (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:32:21 minutes | 1,53 GB | Genre: Classical
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“Venetian Journey” – Hardly any other city has been so romanticized in literature as Venice: poetry, love, dreams and an almost magical melancholy – leitmotifs of Venice literature are also key concepts of Romanticism.
This musical audio book makes one of the first testimonies to the early Venice Romanticism accessible again. The author of this travel diary, Joseph Kreil (1790-1855) from Linz, was close to the circle of friends of the great Romantic composer Franz Schubert and visited Venice in the entourage of the Austrian Emperor Franz I – at a time (1815/16) when the once so proud republic had fallen to the Habsburgs after years of Napoleonic occupation.Kreil’s Venice Memories is the first time since its publication (1817) that a milestone in the aesthetic reinvention of Venice in the early 19th century becomes visible again. The basic features of the modern image of Venice can already be seen here: while Goethe had once mocked the lagoon city as a “nest of water”, Venice was rediscovered after 1800 as a place of longing par excellence.
Like so many poets after him, the then 25-year-old Kreil also fell under the spell of this “city of wonders”. The memory of the splendor and grandeur of the once “free” Venice echoes the (also politically motivated) “Weltschmerz” of many a Schubert song. For Kreil, too, Venice became a place of melancholy and longing for a better world. His impressions of Venice, published here under the title Venezianische Reise (Venetian Journey), are not only inspired by the unique topography, the architectural and artistic monuments and the special atmosphere of the lagoon city, but also regard the Serenissima itself as a work of art in which the human borderline situation between the awareness of transience and the longing for eternity is reflected.
Tracklist:
01. Udo Samel, Gerold Huber, Wolfgang Hörlin, Christian Pleines, Raphael Kohlhäufl, Achim Hoffmann, Hans Pritschet feat. Renner Ensemble – Improvisation: Traversata (Intro) (01:12)
02. Udo Samel, Gerold Huber, Wolfgang Hörlin, Christian Pleines, Raphael Kohlhäufl, Achim Hoffmann, Hans Pritschet feat. Renner Ensemble – Lesung: Fahrt von Mestre nach Venedig (07:06)
03. Udo Samel, Gerold Huber, Wolfgang Hörlin, Christian Pleines, Raphael Kohlhäufl, Achim Hoffmann, Hans Pritschet feat. Renner Ensemble – Lesung: Der Markusplatz (14:03)
04. Udo Samel, Gerold Huber, Wolfgang Hörlin, Christian Pleines, Raphael Kohlhäufl, Achim Hoffmann, Hans Pritschet feat. Renner Ensemble – Lesung: Die Kirchen in Venedig, Die Venetianer (Auszug) (19:11)
05. Udo Samel, Gerold Huber, Wolfgang Hörlin, Christian Pleines, Raphael Kohlhäufl, Achim Hoffmann, Hans Pritschet feat. Renner Ensemble – Lesung: Der Palast des Dogen und der Glockenturm (19:57)
06. Udo Samel, Gerold Huber, Wolfgang Hörlin, Christian Pleines, Raphael Kohlhäufl, Achim Hoffmann, Hans Pritschet feat. Renner Ensemble – Lesung: Wasserfeste der Venetianer (18:59)
07. Udo Samel, Gerold Huber, Wolfgang Hörlin, Christian Pleines, Raphael Kohlhäufl, Achim Hoffmann, Hans Pritschet feat. Renner Ensemble – Improvisation: Risonanza (Nachklang) (01:43)
08. Udo Samel, Gerold Huber, Wolfgang Hörlin, Christian Pleines, Raphael Kohlhäufl, Achim Hoffmann, Hans Pritschet feat. Renner Ensemble – Lesung: Fahrt nach dem Lido (13:30)
09. Udo Samel, Gerold Huber, Wolfgang Hörlin, Christian Pleines, Raphael Kohlhäufl, Achim Hoffmann, Hans Pritschet feat. Renner Ensemble – Lesung: Kunstschätze in Venedig (14:14)
10. Udo Samel, Gerold Huber, Wolfgang Hörlin, Christian Pleines, Raphael Kohlhäufl, Achim Hoffmann, Hans Pritschet feat. Renner Ensemble – Schubert: Der armenische Mönch, mit Anklängen an das Sololied „Der Gondelfahrer“ von Franz Schubert (D 808) (25:14)
11. Udo Samel, Gerold Huber, Wolfgang Hörlin, Christian Pleines, Raphael Kohlhäufl, Achim Hoffmann, Hans Pritschet feat. Renner Ensemble – Lesung: Abschied aus Venedig (11:32)
12. Udo Samel, Gerold Huber, Wolfgang Hörlin, Christian Pleines, Raphael Kohlhäufl, Achim Hoffmann, Hans Pritschet feat. Renner Ensemble – Improvisation: Fantasie über das Lied „Nacht und Träume“ von Franz Schubert (D 827) (05:39)