Anne Sofie von Otter: The complete "6 songs Op. 48" (Grieg)

6 songs (Op. 48):
I. Gruss 00:00
II. Dereinst, Gedanke mein 01:08
III. Lauf und Welt 04:56
IV. Die verschwiegene Nachtigall 06:32
V. Zur Rosenzeit 09:54
VI. Ein Traum 12:20

Grieg, Edvard (1843-1907) -composer
Anne Sofie von Otter- mezzosoprano
Bengt Forsberg -piano

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Score: http://petrucci.mus.auth.gr/imglnks/usimg/9/94/IMSLP27059-PMLP59911-Grieg_6_Songs__Op.48.pdf

The Sechs Lieder Op 48 date mainly from 1889 (the last four from August of that year), although it seems that the first two were composed in two days in September 1884. These six songs to German texts by different authors were his first settings of German poets since Grieg’s first sets of published songs, his Op 2 and 4, which appeared in 1863–4. By 1889, the fractures in Edvard and Nina’s marriage had long been repaired, and if it is too fanciful to ascribe new-found happiness in the first song, Gruß, there is no doubting the genuine expressive character of it. In many respects these songs, varied in mood, are the closest Grieg came to the Romantic German lieder style. Lauf der Welt and (especially) Die verschwiegene Nachtigall are particularly well known, and in the latter Grieg resists the temptation to overdo the tiny nightingale call in the vocal line, echoed in the piano accompaniment. It is not only the German texts which tended to make this set particularly favoured by German singers—the composer’s mastery in the fifth song, Goethe’s Zur Rosenzeit, and the integration of accompaniment and vocal line in the sixth, Ein Traum, are no way inferior to Hugo Wolf’s contemporaneous Sechs Gedichte von Scheffel, Mörike, Goethe und Kerner.

Source and lyrics: http://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/dc.asp?dc=D_CDA67670&vw=dc

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