Beethoven: Complete Songs for Voice and Piano - Volume 1

Description

Beethoven's importance as the creator of monumental orchestral works and of substantial chamber music and solo sonatas is so great that his rich song oeuvre is often hardly even noticed. But his Lieder offer a highly entertaining repertoire in which love songs and humorous songs alternate with serious pieces of philosophical or religious subject matter. Goethe, Claudius, Herder, Lessing, Gellert and Rousseau are among the authors whose poems he set. in this way, we are offered a panorama of the waning 18th and incipient 19th centuries with a specific blend of feeling for nature, Enlightenment thought and religious sensibility. This Henle Urtext edition in two volumes, which is based on the Beethoven Complete Edition, also contains those songs which were rediscovered long after Beethoven's death and were therefore hardly known for a long time. A detailed preface on the history and source situation of Beethoven's art songs rounds off this edition.

Pieces

• Schilderung eines Mädchens, WoO 107
• An einen Säugling, WoO 108
• Der freie Mann (second version), WoO 117
• 8 Songs, Op. 52
• Ich liebe dich, so wie du mich, WoO 123
• La partenza, WoO 124
• Adelaide, Op. 46
• Abschiedsgesang an Wiens Bürger, WoO 121
• Kriegslied der Österreicher, WoO 122
• Opferlied (second version), WoO 126
• Neue Liebe, neues Leben (first version), WoO 127
• La tiranna, WoO 125
• 6 Songs, Op. 48
• Lebensglück, Op. 88
• Der Wachtelschlag, WoO 129
• An die Hoffnung (first version), Op. 32
• Elegie auf den Tod eines Pudels, WoO 110
• Als die Geliebte sich trennen wollte, WoO 132
• In questa tomba oscura (second version), WoO 133
• Sehnsucht (4 versions), WoO 134
• Andenken, WoO 136
• Lied aus der Ferne/Der Jüngling in der Fremde, WoO 138
• Gesang aus der Ferne, WoO 137
• Der Liebende, WoO 139
• 6 Songs, Op. 75