CD productions
Ay, amor – about Love, Desire and Passion
Duo Arcadie
Franziska Markowitsch, mezzo-soprano – Ulrike Merk, guitar
http://www.tyxart.de/en/txa13021_duoarcadie_ayamor.html
Audio samples
Sephardische Lieder (Bearb.: U. Merk)
1 – 5 Los Bilbilicos / Adío querido / Yo m’enamori d’un aire / Como la rosa en la güerta / A la una yo nací
Federico García Lorca (1898-1936) aus: Canciones españolas antiguas
6 – 12 Las morillas de Jaén / El Café de Chinitas / Las tres hojas / Nana de Sevilla / La Tarara / Zorongo/ Sevillanas del siglo XVIII
Joaquin Rodrigo (1901-1999) Three Spanish Songs
13 – 15 En Jerez de la Frontera / Adela / De ronda
Federico Mompou (1893-1987)
16 Canción y Danza (Sobre dos Cantigas del Rey Alfonso X) para guitarra
Juan Vásquez(1500- ach 1560)
17 De los alamos vengo, madre
Luys de Narváez (c.a. 1500- nach 1555)
18 Paseábase el Rey moro ( Bearb.: U. Merk)
Sephardische Lieder (Bearb.: U. Merk)
19 – 22 Arvoles lloran por lluvias / Mi Coracón / Avre tu puerta cerrada / Por la tu puerta
Antonio Ruiz-Pipó (1934-1997)
23 Cancion y Danza No.1 (1961) para guitarra
Manuel de Falla (1876-1946) Siete Canciones Populares Españolas
24 – 30 El paño moruno / Seguidilla murciana / Asturiana / Jota / Nana / Canción / Polo
Frühe Französische Lieder
Duo Arcadie
Anne-Lisa Nathan, mezzo-sprano – Ulrike Merk, guitar
Fanny Hensel (1805-1847)
born Mendelssohn
Songs from the novel “Gonsalve de Cordue” by Jean Pierre Claris de Florian
1 Sérénade de Cortez
2 Unique objet de ma tendresse
3 Zoraide
4 Le rocher des deux amants
Song setting of an unknown poet
5 L’ Amitié
Songs from novellas by de Florian
6 Romance de Claudine
7 Romance de Galatée
8 Romance de Célestine
Songs from the novel “Estelle” by de Florian
9 Chanson des bergères
10 Némorin
11 C’ en est fait
12 Isidore
13 Annette
14 Némorin II
Lied settings by unknown French authors
15 La fuite inutile
16 C’ est une larme
17 Mon cœur soupire
18 Au bord d’une fontaine
The Early French Songs by Fanny Hensel (née Mendelssohn) were published in November 2008 by ARS (Distribution Note 1) order number ARS 38472.
Between 1820 and 1822, the young Fanny Mendelssohn composed a total of 18 French songs in dense chronological order, and it was logical to combine them into a cycle entitled “Frühe Französische Lieder”. The lyrics of a total of 13 songs were written by Jean Pierre Claris de Florian. He has used them as song scenes in his novellas and novels. Fanny Hensel did not transform poems into songs, but took lyrics directly from a novel.
The Romance de Galatée is documented to have been performed by Fanny Hensel herself and her sister Rebecka, and her father described it as his favourite song. Some songs were partly incomplete or already planned for revision at the time they were written, but this never happened. Again other songs got a second version, which carry the note “after Herr Professor Zelters Korrektur”. The composer had reworked a total of six songs in 1839 by means of a fair copy for printing – but these were not printed.
After 180 years the “Frühen Französischen Lieder” now see the light of a broad public with this recording on CD. In de Florian’s novels, song singers often accompany each other with string instruments such as theorbo and guitar. In addition, it was very common in the Romantic period for accompanying parts to be performed with guitar.
Source: ARS-Produktion