SKU: HL.49008142

ISBN 9790001121705. UPC: 840126938913. 0.4 inches. German.

This cycle arranged by Aribert Reimann of eight Lieder by Mendelssohn contains well-known items like: 'Leise zieht durch mein Gemut' and 'Auf Flugeln des Gesangs'. The songs are joined to each other by specially composed intermezzi which attempt - with refer-ence to the thematic material of the songs - to re-interpret Mendelssohn's idiom for our time. '... oder soll es Tod bedeuten' ist the final work in Reimann's series of adaptions of 19th-century songs for voice and string quartet. Franz Schubert's 'Mignon' (ED 8466) has already been published. All these cycles have been recorded by Juliane Banse and the Cherubini Quartet and are available on CD (TUD 7063).

SKU: HL.49047293

ISBN 9798350118797.

Who doesn't know the famous Mainz carnival song “Heile, heale Gänsje”. It became a comforting song that is sung on all sorts of occasions. Wolfgang Birtel takes the melody on a humorous journey through music history, transforming it - more or less hidden - into the guise of famous composers. So “Heile, heile Gänsje” appears in the little sentences sometimes with a powdered Bach wig or at the court ball with Johann Strauss, with Haydn at Fürst Esterházy or at the Schubertiade, etc. Humor is the trump card in these parodies, which involve enjoyable music-making in a string quartet - ad libitum with double bass – guaranteed.

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