Benjamin Appl, James Baillieu - Heimat (2017)
Benjamin Appl, James Baillieu - Heimat (2017)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 235 Mb | Total time: 66:54 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Sony Classical | 88985393032 | Recorded: 2016, 2017
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 235 Mb | Total time: 66:54 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Sony Classical | 88985393032 | Recorded: 2016, 2017
German-born baritone Benjamin Appl studied with the legendary Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, whose voice his own resembles on the surface. But then he moved to England and has stayed on there. Heimat (Homeland) is not just an exploration of that German concept, but a personal statement and even a bit of an autobiography, with notes from the artist himself (find these if you listen via download or stream) explaining the resonances of each individual song. This kind of personal connection is what classical music in general needs right now, and all the more so in the rather closed tradition of the German Lied. The program is divided into sections marked Prologue, Roots, Locations, People, On the Road, Yearning, Without Frontiers, and Epilogue. Appl begins with songs that refer back to his own childhood (including the ultra-familiar Brahms Wiegenlied, Op. 49, No. 4 ("Brahms' Lullaby"), which hasn't had such a sense of immediacy for a long time. Under On the Road comes a remarkable inclusion, Ich weiß bestimmt, ich werd' dich wiedersehen (I am certain I'll see you again) of Adolf Strauss, a Weimar-era pop songwriter who died in the Nazi concentration camps. Sample this to feel how Appl infuses the music with personal feeling even as his voice sticks within some rather fixed boundaries. He has stretched himself with British song, which takes up the last third of the program (cleverly introduced by Poulenc's setting of Apollinaire's Hyde Park). In the abstract, you might prefer homegrown singers in the pieces by Britten, Warlock, and Vaughan Williams heard here, but by this time you're hooked into Appl's odyssey. With sensitive interaction with accompanist James Baillieu, Appl scores an impressive Sony debut.– James Manheim
Performer:
Benjamin Appl, baritone
James Baillieu, piano
Tracklist:
PROLOG PROLOGUE
01. Franz Schubert: Seligkeit, D. 433
WURZELN ROOTS
02. Max Reger: Des Kindes Gebet Op. 76, No. 22
03. Hugo Wolf: Er ist`s
04. Johannes Brahms: Wiegenlied, Op. 49, No. 4
RÄUME LOCATIONS
05. Franz Schubert: Der Einsame, D. 800
06. Johannes Brahms: Mondnacht, WoO 21
07. Franz Schreker: Waldeinsamkeit
MENSCHEN PEOPLE
08. Johannes Brahms: Mein Mädel hat einen Rosenmund
09. Hugo Wolf: Verschwiegene Liebe
10. Richard Strauss: Allerseelen, Op. 10, No. 8
11. Franz Schubert: Nachtstück, D. 672
UNTERWEGS ON THE ROAD
12. Franz Schubert: Drang in die Ferne, D. 770
13. Franz Schubert: Der Wanderer an den Mond, D. 870
14. Adolf Strauss: Ich weiss bestimmt, ich werd' dich wiedersehen
SEHNSUCHT YEARNING
15. Franz Schubert: Das Heimweh, D. 456
16. Franz Schubert: Der Wanderer, D. 489
GRENZENLOS WITHOUT FRONTIERS
17. Francis Poulenc: Hyde Park, FP 127, No. 2
18. Benjamin Britten: Greensleeves
19. Ralph Vaughan Williams: The House of Life - II. Silent Noon
20. Henry Bishop: Home, Sweet Home
21. Peter Warlock: My Own Country
22. Peter Warlock: The Bachelor
23. John Ireland: If There were Dreams to Sell
EPILOG EPILOGUE
24. Edvard Grieg: An das Vaterland, Op. 58, No. 2
25. Edvard Grieg: Ein Traum, Op. 48, No. 6
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