Lieder
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The third solo album from Egyptian soprano Fatma Said focuses on Romantic era lieder by Franz Schubert, Felix Mendelssohn, Robert and Clara Schumann and Johannes Brahms. In the conventional course of things, a lieder recital involves one singer and one pianist, but Said takes a characteristically imaginative approach with this album. “I’ve always wanted to make music with friends,” she continues, “When you share similar artistic values, the performances are on a very special level.”
The album’s program of 24 songs calls on the talents of no fewer than three pianists – Malcolm Martineau, Joseph Middleton and Yonatan Cohen, and of harpist Anneleen Lenaerts, clarinetist Sabine Meyer (in Schubert’s expansive The Shepherd on the Rock), Quatuor Arod (accompanying Brahms’s Ophelia-Lieder), male chorus Walhalla zum Seidlwirt (whose members were students with Fatma in Berlin), and another singer on the ascent, baritone Huw Montague Rendall.
Tracklist
Franz Schubert: Ständchen ‘Leise flehen meine Lieder’, D957 No. 4
Fatma Said (soprano), Malcolm Martineau (piano)
Franz Schubert: Der Hirt auf dem Felsen, D965 (Von Chezy / Muller)
Fatma Said (soprano), Malcolm Martineau (piano), Sabine Meyer (clarinet)
Franz Schubert: Ständchen ‘Zögernd leise’, D. 920 / 921
Fatma Said (soprano), MGV Walhalla zum Seidlwirt (vocal ensemble), Yonatan Cohen (piano)
Felix Mendelssohn: Die Liebende schreibt (Goethe) Op. 86 No. 3
Fatma Said (soprano), Joseph Middleton (piano)
Franz Schubert: Auf dem Wasser zu singen, D. 774
Fatma Said (soprano), Malcolm Martineau (piano)
Franz Schubert: Der Zwerg, D. 771 (Collin)
Fatma Said (soprano), Malcolm Martineau (piano)
Felix Mendelssohn: Hexenlied, Op. 8 No. 8
Fatma Said (soprano), Joseph Middleton (piano)
Felix Mendelssohn: Suleika (Goethe / von Willemer) Op. 34 No. 4
Fatma Said (soprano), Joseph Middleton (piano)
Felix Mendelssohn: Ich wollt’ meine Lieb’ ergösse sich, Op. 63. No. 1
Fatma Said (soprano), Huw Montague Rendall (baritone), Joseph Middleton (piano)
Fanny Mendelssohn: Suleika und Hatem (Goethe)
Fatma Said (soprano), Huw Montague Rendall (baritone), Joseph Middleton (piano)
Johannes Brahms: Lerchengesang Op. 70 No. 2
Anneleen Lenaerts (harp), Fatma Said (soprano)
Johannes Brahms: 5 Lieder, Op. 105: No. 1, Wie Melodien zieht es mir (Version with Harp)
Fatma Said (soprano), Anneleen Lenaerts (harp)
Johannes Brahms: 49 Deutsche Volkslieder, WoO 33, Vol. 1: No. 6, Da unten im Thale (Version with Harp)
Fatma Said (soprano), Anneleen Lenaerts (harp)
Johannes Brahms: 5 Lieder, Op. 105: No. 2, Immer leiser wird mein Schlummer (Version with Harp)
Fatma Said (soprano), Anneleen Lenaerts (harp)
Johannes Brahms: Ophelia-Lieder (5), WoO posth. 22
Fatma Said (soprano), Quatuor Arod (string quartet), Quatuor Arod (harp)
No. 1, Wie erkenn ich dein Treulieb (Arr. Reimann for Voice and String Quartet)
No. 2, Sein Leichenhemd Weiss wie Schnee zu sehn (Arr. Reimann for Voice and String Quartet)
No. 3, Auf morgen ist sankt Valentins Tag (Arr. Reimann for Voice and String Quartet)
No. 4, Sie trugen ihn auf der Bahre bloss (Arr. Reimann for Voice and String Quartet)
No. 5, Und kommt er nicht mehr zurück (Arr. Reimann for Voice and String Quartet)
Robert Schumann: Widmung, Op. 25 No. 1
Fatma Said (soprano), Joseph Middleton (piano)
Robert Schumann: Singet nicht In Trauertönen Op. 98a No. 7 (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
Fatma Said (soprano), Joseph Middleton (piano)
Robert Schumann: Liebhabers Ständchen, Op. 34 No. 2
Fatma Said (soprano), Huw Montague Rendall (baritone), Joseph Middleton (piano)
Robert Schumann: Liebeslied, Op. 51 No. 5
Fatma Said (soprano), Joseph Middleton (piano)
Robert Schumann: In der Nacht, Op. 74 No. 4
Fatma Said (soprano), Huw Montague Rendall (baritone), Joseph Middleton (piano)
