| Requiring appreciation of poetic texts set to music, lieder reveals a composer's heart like few other musical forms. |
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| A series of Liszt transcriptions of Schubert lieder found Gekic at his most poetic. |
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| It is not the same thing, almost not the same voice, to sing lieder and opera. |
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| And so on to the German lieder, epitomized by Schubert's extraordinary genius in creating songs and song cycles. |
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| These include lieder, thirty string quartets and six symphonies, plus numerous overtures and choral works. |
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| He has also written a significant number of lieder and song cycles which are significantly under-represented in the current CD catalogue. |
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| On the lieder disc there are songs by Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Brahms and Strauss, plus Mahler's complete Kindertotenlieder. |
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| Listening to great lieder singers influenced me more than other pianists because of the song element. |
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| Haydn's musical genius created the perfect accompaniments and arrangements for the folk melodies, elevating them to first-class lieder. |
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| And Liszt himself is redeemed as a lieder composer, underrated despite fascinating early efforts by Bernac and Poulenc to popularize his songs. |
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| In 1986 they produced a CD of Mozart lieder that immediately revealed the kind of artistry they were aiming at. |
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| The student will have learned that during this period, four-part frottole, chanson, and lieder are often performed as voice and lute duets. |
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| It is also considered disruptive to clap individual songs or short instrumental pieces rather than at the end of each group at lieder recitals or early music concerts. |
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| Hirai has also been an active composer of symphonic works, chamber music, choral music and lieder. |
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| Beethoven's six Gellert lieder were hobbled by bad intonation, while the cautious note-to-note rendition of Wagner's Wesendonk songs lacked any sense of their sensuous wonder. |
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| Good neighbors, hi — but O. M. G.,The time's at hand again, I see,To cobble up these Christmas lieder,Fit for friend or distant reader. |
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| Today, we imagine a frail but flamboyant man who could dash off delightfully frivolous waltzes and lieder at will. |
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| Since then, Serge Cyferstein is delighted to perform as a soloist, but gives preference to melody and lieder recitals. |
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| Singing arias and lieder in their original language, which the performer usually hasn't mastered and certainly doesn't think or feel in, is a huge challenge. |
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| While Campbell's concert repertoire included German lieder by Brahms and Schumann, French and Italian art songs, folk songs and operatic arias, he recorded mainly repertoire from light opera. |
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| The poems in his Bildungsroman 'Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre', and in particular the character of Mignon, appealed to the imagination of all the great lieder composers. |
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| Her interest in the German lieder repertoire is one of her major passions. |
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| Balduin Sulzer's catalogue of musical works comprises about 350 pieces, including two operas, seven symphonies, one passion, twelve concertos, piano pieces, chamber music, lieder and choral music. |
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| In his five-part lieder, Lasso makes the most of contrasting duets and trios very frequently, as in Es jagt ein Jäger a hunting song which serves as an excuse for lightly concealed amatory dalliance. |
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| He chose the middle way, a synthesis of cycle of lieder and symphony. |
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| Unexcelled as a lieder singer, he had a vast repertory. |
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| Contemporary singers have drifted from the philosophy set down by Die-trich Fischer-Dieskau, who dominated the lieder business after the Second World War. |
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| Karina Gauvin is brought to international attention upon winning in 1994, the lieder prize as well as the public's prize in the 40th edition of the 's-Hertogenbosch International Vocal Competition in Holland. |
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| During her career, Price made many recordings of operas and of lieder. |
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| The only composer to come close to Liszt's revisional output is Schubert, with approximately 100 of his 500 lieder existing in more than one version. |
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| Price was also very active as a lieder singer, equally at home in the romantic idiom of Franz Schubert and Robert Schumann or Richard Strauss and the Second Viennese School. |
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| Yet, unlike Mahler, you chose not pure orchestral Lieder performed by a singer. |
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| While the texts of the other Lieder were rather simple rhymes in common rhyme schemes like a-b-a-b, the text here is very difficult, both to interpret and to sing. |
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| Kristian Bezuidenhout plays an Erard fortepiano of 1837, absolutely spot-on for the period of these Lieder. |
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| The same year he came second behind Dmitri Hvorostovsky in the Cardiff BBC Singer of the World Competition, but won the Lieder Prize. |
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| The poems also exerted an influence on the burgeoning of Romantic music, and Franz Schubert in particular composed Lieder setting many of Ossian's poems. |
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