4260085533893

Hans Sommer: Ballads & Romances

Sebastian Noack and Manuel Lange

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Format: CD

Cat No: AVI8553389

Release Date:  22 June 2018

Label:  C-Avi

Packaging Type:  Digipak

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  4260085533893

Genres:  Classical  Chamber Music  

  • Description

    Baritone Sebastien Noack, together with his accompanist Manuel Lange, performs Ballads and Romances by German composer and mathematician Hans Sommer.

    Today it has mostly been forgotten that one of the founding fathers of German music copyright, Hans Sommer, whose real name was Hans Friedrich August Zincken (1837-1922), was also a prolific composer. Although the close connection between music and the educated middle class was taken for granted, the act of composing – either as a dilettante or as a professional – was still considered a hazardous venture. Hardly anyone could devote themselves entirely to composition without additional income from performance or teaching.

    Sommer took his first composition lessons in the 1850s, while studying mathematics and physics with Prof. Julius Otto Grimm in Göttingen; and then with Adolf Bernhard Marx during an extended stay in Berlin. After returning to Braunschweig (Brunswick), his home town, in the 1860s, he pursued his studies with Wilhelm Meves (1808-1871). Finally, in 1881, at the age of 47, Sommer withdrew into a more private existence to devote himself entirely to his musical inclinations – thereby abandoning his established scientific career.

    German baritone, Sebastian Noack, began his vocal studies in 1992 in Berlin, first with Dietmar Hackel and later with Ingrid Figur, and graduated with distinction. Several master classes with Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and Aribert Reimann completed his training. He was awarded 1st prize at the Bundeswettbewerb Gesang in Berlin 1996, and in 1997 he won 2nd prize at the International Song Competition at Wigmore Hall in London as well as 1st prize at the Paula Lindberg-Salomon Competition.

    Sebastian Noack performs regularly with conductors Philippe Herreweghe, Christoph Eschenbach, Gustav Leonhardt, Helmuth Rilling, Frieder Bernius, Hans-Christoph Rademann, and Daniel Reuss, and ensembles Freiburger Barockorchester, RIAS Kammerchor, Concerto Köln, Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin and Cantus Colln.

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Sommer: Ballads and Romances, Op. 8 - Die Rauberbruder
      • 2. Ballads and Romances, Op. 8 - Verloren
      • 3. Ballads and Romances, Op. 8 - Nachtwanderer
      • 4. Ballads and Romances, Op. 8 - Der Kuhne
      • 5. Ballads and Romances, Op. 8 - Loreley, Op. 7
      • 6. Sommer: Two Ballads by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Der Konig von Thule
      • 7. Two Ballads by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Der Fischer
      • 8. Sommer: Ballads and Romances, Op. 11 - Sir Aethelbert I & II
      • 9. Ballads and Romances, Op. 11 - Odysseus
      • 10. Ballads and Romances, Op. 11 - Das Lied vom Schill
      • 11. Ballads and Romances, Op. 11 - Die Bernstein- Hexe
      • 12. Ballads and Romances, Op. 11 - Jung Douglas und schon Rosabell, Op. 24
      • 13. Sommer: Die junge Konigin, Op. 25
      • 14. Sommer: Jung Anne, Op. 18 No. 1