Sebastian Noack & Manuel Lange – Hans Sommer: Ballads & Romances (2013/2018) [FLAC 24bit/48kHz]

Almost an exact contemporary of Saint-Saëns, Hans Sommer partly faced the same dilemma as the great Camille: born in 1837, in the heart of the Romantic period, he passed away in 1922 and saw many evolutions, even revolutions, pass him by without taking part. He was part of the circles of Richard Strauss (who even conducted one of his operas in Weimar in 1892) and some of his younger colleagues, but never approached the language – even the least avant-garde – of a Schoenberg for instance, including in his later works. A late romantic, fascinated with modern forms but still attached to tone, harmony and strong architecture, he got into music rather late in life, following a first career as a mathematician, physician and naturalist. He authored ten operas and most importantly an imposing repertoire of Lieder in line with the works of Wagner, Schumann, Liszt and the first Strauss, written for the most part before the 1900s. Baritone Sebastian Noack performs a nice range of Sommer’s creations in this field that he so masterfully explored.

Tracklist:
Hans Sommer (1837-1922)
01. Ballads and Romances, Op. 8: I. Die Räuberbrüder
02. Ballads and Romances, Op. 8: II. Verloren
03. Ballads and Romances, Op. 8: III. Nachtwanderer
04. Ballads and Romances, Op. 8: IV. Der Kühne
05. Loreley, Op. 7
06. Two Ballads by Johann Wolfgang Goethe: I. Der König von Thule
07. Two Ballads by Johann Wolfgang Goethe: II. Der Fischer
08. Ballads and Romances, Op. 11: I. Sir Aethelbert I & II
09. Ballads and Romances, Op. 11: II. Odysseus
10. Ballads and Romances, Op. 11: III. Das Lied vom Schill
11. Ballads and Romances, Op. 11: IV. Die Bernstein-Hexe
12. Jung Douglas und schön Rosabell, Op. 24
13. Die junge Königin, Op. 25
14. Jung Anne, Op. 18, No. 1

Personnel:
Sebastian Noack, baritone
Manuel Lange, piano

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