... In this effort Berlioz, Liszt and Wagner not only composed the grand-scale works for which they are best known, but they each devoted energy at varying points in their careers to the art of song. For Berlioz and Wagner composing for voice and piano occupied their youthful careers and constituted only a fraction of their total output, while for Liszt his eight-four songs represent a more significant body of vocal composition. Yet, however atypical Wagner's early "curiosities" or Berlioz's unorchestrated songs are, they are important documents which reveal the development of each composer's musical language and thematic material. All three, for example, relied on contemporary poetic inspiration, drawing texts from major writers like Hugo, Heine, Musset, Moore and Tennyson as well as minor ones like Reboul, Rellstab and Scheurlin, just as they returned to the great lyric voices of the past like Goethe and Schiller. All three recognized the noble marriage of music and poetry, and all three were influenced by the dual forces of the evolving German Ballade and Lied, as passed down from Schubert, Schumann, Franz or Loewe, and of the developing French mélodie derived from the older romance tradition and enriched by the influence of heightened folksong such as Thomas Moore's Irish Melodies. ...
Thomas Hampson and
Carla Maria Verdino-Süllwold
Berlioz, Liszt, Wagner
Romantische Lieder
(Romantic Songs)
Thomas Hampson, baritone
Geoffrey Parsons, piano
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