Helen Buchholtz
Lieder and Ballads from Helen Buchholtz (1877-1953)
Gerlinde Sämann (soprano) & Claude Weber (Klavier)
20 years ago, the Luxembourgian composer Helen Buchholtz was an enigmatic unknown. In 1999, two suitcases containing around 250 music manuscripts were found, which have since become accessible to gender in the archive of Helen Buchholtz in CID | Fraen. Only by chance had they survived: the notes, packed in sacks after the death of the composer, has been saved from the fire by a nephew at the last minute ...Helen Buchholtz, daughter of a wealthy brewery owner, received early lessons in music. At the age of 36, she married a German doctor and moved with him to Wiesbaden. Widowed early, she returned to Luxembourg, where she frequented poets and musicians. There her music came to the performance. But in concerts or on the radio she was heard ...
The double CD presents a selection of the best of her 51 songs and ballads, which are selectively placed in a dialogue with contemporary music: Inspired by Helen Buchholtz 'late Romantic music, Catherine Kontz, Albena Petrovic-Vratchanska, Stevie Wishart and Tatsiana Zelianko composed four new ones Songs. Film director Anne Schiltz also shot the documentary Im Dialog mit Helen Buchholtz.
CD1
1 Der Wind geht durch die Bäume 1:33
2 O bleib bei mir! 4:02
3 Wie ein Rausch… 1:28
4 À quoi rêvez-vous donc, ma mie? 2:05
5 Wenn ich tot bin, Liebste… 3:21
6 Die rote Blume 3:37
7 In verschwiegener Nacht 1:33
8 Mein Schritt hallt leise 2:00
9 Meine Mutter hat’s gewollt 2:16
10 Pythia 1:48
11 Einsamkeit 1:40
12 Einsamer Weg 4:18
13 5 Coloristic Miniatures 7:13
TATSIANA ZELIANKO
14 Blauvögelein – Ballade 8:57 CD 1 Running Time 46:00
CD2
1 Und hab’ so große Sehnsucht doch 1:37
2 Ich glaub’, lieber Schatz … 2:15
3 Und um die Holzbank duftete der Flieder 1:54
4 ... und um die Holzbank duftete der Flieder 5:50
CATHERINE KONTZ
5 So gehn die Tage hin 2:42
6 Illusions 3:11
7 Illusions 4:20
ALBENA PETROVIC-VRATCHANSKA
8 Die alte Uhr 2:51
9 Strahlender Himmel 6:48
STEVIE WISHART
10 Volkslied 2:08
11 Die Zigeuner – Ballade 6:44
12 Ro’ a Fridden 2:36
13 Rosenmär 2:27
14 Ein kleines Lied 2:08
15 Ave Maria 2:51
CD 2 Running Time 50:30
Total Running Time 1:36:30
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