Calmus Ensemble - Liebesleid (2024) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Susanne Westenfelder, music theorist and music journalist, writes in the booklet for the latest addition to the Calmus CD library 'Liebesleid', among other things: 'In 2017, the two researchers Kazuma Mori and Makoto Iwanaga published a study. The result: songs that bring tears to our eyes seem to have a cathartic effect on us, calm us down and even make us feel good afterwards. A German newspaper concluded what we all already suspected: Music helps against lovesickness. Tear-jerking songs for tear-jerking eyelids. ' We have taken on this mission - as usual across styles and eras. We move between baroque (Johann Grabbe: Three Madrigals) and contemporary music (Gordon Kampe: 'Je deviens fou… ') and also make a stopover in the German Romantic period with works by Johannes Brahms and another with folk songs from the British Isles (John Rutter: 'Five Traditional Songs'). We have also been able to recruit outstanding arrangers to tailor some of the love song dramas to us. These include our house and court arranger Juan M. V. Garcia with 'Hallelujah' and 'Another Love' as well as ex-King's singer Philip Lawson with the eponymous arrangement of Fritz Kreisler's 'Liebesleid'. Because alongside all the heartache, there is always certainty at the end: 'And if you are ever sad, don't despair, because it will always be like today: love's sorrow is followed by love's joy. '

TRACKLIST

01. Calmus Ensemble - Cohen: Hallelujah
02. Calmus Ensemble - Grabbe: Lasso, perché mi fuggi
03. Calmus Ensemble - Grabbe: Cor moi, deh, non languire
04. Calmus Ensemble - Grabbe: Alm`afflitta, chi ti darà più vita
05. Calmus Ensemble - Distler: Ein Stündlein wohl vor Tag
06. Calmus Ensemble - Brahms: Da unten im Tale, WoO 35 Nr. 5
07. Calmus Ensemble - Brahms: In stiller Nacht, WoO 34 Nr. 8
08. Calmus Ensemble - Brahms: Verlorene Jugend op. 104 Nr. 4
09. Calmus Ensemble - Brahms: Im Herbst op. 104 Nr. 5
10. Calmus Ensemble - Sherwin: A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square
11. Calmus Ensemble - Rutter: Five Traditional Songs: I. The girl I left behind me
12. Calmus Ensemble - Rutter: Five Traditional Songs: II. O waly, waly
13. Calmus Ensemble - Rutter: Five Traditional Songs: III. The British Grenadiers
14. Calmus Ensemble - Rutter: Five Traditional Songs: IV. Golden slumbers
15. Calmus Ensemble - Rutter: Five Traditional Songs: V. Dashing away with the smoothing iron
16. Calmus Ensemble - Odell: Another love
17. Calmus Ensemble - Kampe: Je deviens fou . . .
18. Calmus Ensemble - Kreisler: Liebesleid



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