760623208428

Hanns Eisler: Lieder Vol. 3; Songs In American Exile

Holger Falk; Steffen Schleiermacher

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Format: CD

Cat No: MDG6132084

Release Date:  03 August 2018

Label:  MDG

Packaging Type:  Jewel Case

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  760623208428

Genres:  Classical  Choral  

  • Description

    The program of Vol. 3 of the successful and critically acclaimed Hanns Eisler project by Holger Falk and Steffen Schleiermacher features songs from this composer¢019s American exile. The Hollywood Songbook is a major work, even if measured solely by its length and total of thirty-two pieces. Moreover, the concentration and intensification of the content attained by Eisler while he was residing on the Pacific Coast make this rather loosely organised collection of occasional pieces what is certainly the most important song cycle of the twentieth century. Unlike many other exiles, Eisler was extremely successful in California, both artistically and financially. In the expanding entertainment industry there was an increasing demand for new film music, which Eisler supplied both willingly and reliably. His songs reveal the other side of his life in exile: yearning for home, reluctance to come to terms with his fate, and the insecurity of his life in exile. Once again Bertolt Brecht authored a great many of these impressive texts. The precise length of the Hollywood Songbook and the order of its titles are not entirely clear. The usual order of the thirty-two songs was not presented in full until 1982, forty years after Eisler’s death. Holger Falk and Steffen Schleiermacher complement this extensive cycle with some pieces from their temporal and topical context. The result is a most deeply moving, stellar song performance, presented with profound sympathy but without any obvious pathos or edifying kitsch. Also Available: Hanns Eisler Lieder Vol. 1 Songs and Ballads 1929-1937 MDG6132001 Hanns Eisler Lieder Vol. 2 Songs and Ballads 1948-1962 MDG6132040

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Elegie 1939
      • 2. Spruch 1939
      • 3. Ãœber die Dauer des Exils I
      • 4. Ãœber die Dauer des Exils II
      • 5. Hollywooder Liederbuch Der Sohn: I Wenn sie nachts lag
      • 6. II Mein junger Sohn fragt mich
      • 7. In den Weiden
      • 8. An den kleinen Radioapparat
      • 9. Frühling
      • 10. Speisekammer 1942
      • 11. Auf der Flucht
      • 12. Die Flucht
      • 13. Ãœber den Selbstmord
      • 14. Gedenktafel für 4000 Soldaten
      • 15. Epitaph auf einen in der Flandernschlacht Gefallenen
      • 16. Spruch
      • 17. Panzerschlacht
      • 18. Ostersonntag
      • 19. Der Kirschdieb
      • 20. Hotelzimmer 1942
      • 21. Die Maske des Bösen Zwei Lieder nach Worten von Pascal I
      • 22. I
      • 23. II
      • 24. Winterspruch Fünf Elegien
      • 25. I
      • 26. II
      • 27. III
      • 28. IV
      • 29. V
      • 30. Die letzte Elegie
      • 31. Hollywood-Elegie Nr. 7
      • 32. Kalifornischer Herbst
      • 33. Erinnerung an Eichendorff und Schumann Anakreontische Fragmente
      • 34. I Geselligkeit betreffend
      • 35. II
      • 36. III Die Unwürde des Alterns
      • 37. IV Später Triumph
      • 38. V In der Frühe Hölderlin Fragmente
      • 39. I An die Hoffnung
      • 40. II Andenken
      • 41. III Elegie 1943
      • 42. IV Die Heimat
      • 43. V An eine Stadt
      • 44. VI Erinnerung
      • 45. Der Mensch
      • 46. Vom Sprengen des Gartens
      • 47. Die Landschaft des Exils
      • 48. Rimbaud-Gedicht
      • 49. Der Schatzgräber
      • 50. Nightmare
      • 51. Die Heimkehr
      • 52. In Sturmesnacht
      • 53. Lied einer deutschen Mutter