Episode 324. Margaret Price in Trauer und Trost

Episode 324. Margaret Price in Trauer und Trost

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These days I find myself in a pensive, troubled state, very much in need of the kind of consolation that only music can provide. A number of years ago, I published a pair of episodes featuring the sublime Margaret Price performing music of mourning and consolation. Today’s episode presents an expanded and refurbished version of the second of those episodes, in a program composed entirely of art song, moving through a sequence of emotions surrounding loss. Composers include Johannes Brahms, Giuseppe Verdi, Robert Schumann, Enrique Granados, Franz Schubert, Grace Williams, Sergei Rachmaninov, Felix Mendelssohn, Philip Cannon, Hugo Wolf, Alban Berg, Maurice Ravel, Franz Liszt, Peter Cornelius, and Richard Strauss, and collaborating pianists and conductors include Claudio Abbado, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Cyprien Katsaris, Geoffrey Parsons, and Neville Marriner, as well as frequent collaborators James Lockhart and Thomas Dewey. A thorough traversal of the song repertoire by one of the supreme recitalists of the late 20th Century.

RECORDINGS HEARD IN THIS EPISODE

Enrique Granados, Fernando Periquet: ¡Oh, muerte cruel! [La Maja dolorosa I] (Tonadillas, No. 9). Margaret Price, James Lockhart [1981]

Traditional Welsh, arr. Grace Williams: Bugeilio’r Gwenith Gwyn. Margaret Price, James Lockhart [1969]

Johannes Brahms, Traditional German: Vergangen ist mir Glück und Heil, Op. 48/6. Margaret Price, Graham Johnson [1994]

Giuseppe Verdi, Luigi Balestra [after Johann Wolfgang von Goethe]: Chi i bei dì m’adduce ancora. Margaret Price, Geoffrey Parsons [1987]

Franz Schubert, Wilhelm Müller: Die Nebensonnen (Winterreise, D.911/23). Margaret Price, Thomas Dewey [1997]

Robert Schumann, Joseph von Eichendorff: Wehmut (Liederkreis, Op. 39/9). Margaret Price, Graham Johnson [1993]

Sergei Rachmaninov, Alexander Pushkin: Ne poi, krasavitsa [Oh, do not sing to me again], Op. 4/4. Margaret Price, James Lockhart [live, Edinburgh 31.VIII.1971]

Margaret Price and James Lockhart

Franz Schubert, Ludwig Gotthard Kosegarten: Schwanengesang, D.744. Margaret Price, James Lockhart [1971]

Peter Cornelius: from the Trauer und Trost cycle: Andenken, Ein Ton, (Op. 3/2&3). Margaret Price, Graham Johnson [1994]

Franz Schubert, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Der König in Thule, D.367. Margaret Price, Geoffrey Parsons. [live Paris, Théâtre des Champs-Elysées 25.I.1986]

Traditional Greek, arr. Maurice Ravel: Là-bas, vers l’église (Cinq mélodies populaires grecques, No. 2). Margaret Price, James Lockhart [1981]

Felix Mendelssohn, Heinrich Heine: Gruss, Op. 19a/5. Margaret Price, Graham Johnson [1993]

Robert Schumann, Friedrich Rückert: Aus den östlichen Rosen (Myrthen, Op. 25/25). Margaret Price, Thomas Dewey [1993]

Robert Schumann, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: So laßt mich scheinen (Wilhelm-Meister-Lieder, Op. 98a/9). Margaret Price, Thomas Dewey [1995]

Philip Cannon, anonymous French text [translated Jacqueline Laidlaw]: La bien aimée (Cinq chansons de femme, No. 5). Margaret Price, Maria Korchinska [BBC recording, 15.XII.1966]

Johannes Brahms, Hermann Allmers: Feldeinsamkeit, Op. 86/2. Margaret Price, James Lockhart [1984]

Hugo Wolf, Eduard Mörike: Gesang Weylas (Mörike-Lieder, No. 46). Margaret Price, Graham Johnson [1994]

Franz Schubert, Friedrich Leopold zu Stolberg-Stolberg: Die Mutter Erde, D.788. Margaret Price, Wolfgang Sawallisch [1981]

Franz Liszt, Ferdinand Freiligrath: O Lieb, solang du lieben kannst, S.298. Margaret Price, Cyprien Katsaris [1986]

Richard Strauss, Richard Dehmel: Befreit, Op. 39/4. Margaret Price, Wolfgang Sawallisch [1987]

Alban Berg, Peter Altenberg: Hier ist Friede (Altenberg-Lieder, Op. 4/5). Margaret Price, Claudio Abbadio, London Symphony Orchestra [1971]

Richard Strauss, Hermann Hesse: September (Vier letzte Lieder). Margaret Price, Neville Marriner, Orchestre National de France [live Paris, Théâtre des Champs-Elysées 08.IV.81]

Gustav Mahler, Friedrich Rückert: Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen (Rückert-Lieder). Margaret Price, Wolfgang Gönnenwein, Orchester der Ludwigsburger Schloßfestspiele [live Ludwigsburg 1988]

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