IDAGIO | Hanns Eisler: Ernste Gesänge - Lieder with piano 5414939982378

Featuring

Matthias Goerne
Thomas Larcher
Ensemble Resonanz
Hanns Eisler

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Composer Biography

Hanns Eisler and Bertolt Brecht formed an artistic partnership that lasted almost thirty years, until Brecht's death in 1956.

Performer Biography

Matthias Goerne, the baritone on this recording, has been an honorary professor of song interpretation at the Robert-Schumann-Hochschule in Düsseldorf and an honorary member of the Royal Academy of Music in London.

Critical Reception

Eisler's First Piano Sonata had a triumphant reception, earning the Artists' Prize of the City of Vienna and over twenty performances worldwide within two years of its premiere.

Composer Biography

Hanns Eisler, the composer, was the son of Austrian philosopher Rudolf Eisler and was born in Leipzig in 1898.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Hanns Eisler believed vocal music, due to its connection with words, was best suited to give art a concrete relationship to its time and an easily understandable direction.

Composition History

The Ernste Gesänge (Serious Songs) for baritone and strings, completed weeks before Eisler's death, were a direct response to the shocking revelations of the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

Composition History

Hanns Eisler's First Piano Sonata, dedicated to his teacher Arnold Schoenberg, was composed between March 1922 and March 1923, during the final phase of his studies.