Label: Challenge Classics
Format: CD+Book
Barcode: 0608917260021
Catalog number: CC 72600
Releasedate: 08-07-13
Format: CD+Book
Barcode: 0608917260021
Releasedate: 08-07-13
"Grenzen der Menschheit" is not their first collaboration of Johannes Martin Kränzle and Hilko Dumno. After recording romantic ballads they decided to work on songs belonging to the search of the limits of mankind. Schubert and Schumann provided with their musical settings of poems by Schiller and Goethe the ideal basis for their dramaturgically programm.
Johannes Martin Kränzle is one of the most successful barritones. Engagements on the most famous opera houses like Metropolitain Opera and The Scala in Milan and concerts all over the world take place in his agenda. His wide repertoire encludes over 100 roles.
Johannes Martin Kränzle is one of the most successful barritones. Engagements on the most famous opera houses like Metropolitain Opera and The Scala in Milan and concerts all over the world take place in his agenda. His wide repertoire encludes over 100 roles.
- After recording romantic ballads Johannes Martin Kränzle and Hilko Dumno decided to work on songs belonging to the search of the limits of mankind
- Schubert and Schumann provided with their musical settings of poems by Schiller and Goethe the ideal basis for their dramaturgically programm
- Johannes Martin Kränzle is one of the most successful barritones
- Multiple prize-winning Theresa Kronthaler adds her incomparable and beautiful mezzosoprano to this release
Goethe, Schiller, Schumann, Schubert – four great names and an equally great question: where do the limits of mankind lie? Johannes Martin Kränzle and Hilko Dumno try to find those limits on their latest CD with the help of the great poets and composers.
Johannes Martin Kränzle and Hilko Dumno in search of the limits of mankind with the help of Goethe, Schiller, Schubert and Schumann.
Music seems to transcend life, to transform it by means of simple physical phenomena such as the reverberations of strings and windpipes. Tones possess their own time and pitch, which we do not completely understand although we generate them ourselves. Music transcends the constraints and contingencies of our everyday existence and is nevertheless a part of them. This is known to everyone who ever surrendered to its so called “magic” – whether composers, like Robert Schumann, who was preoccupied day in day out with the detailed mechanics of effect, or writers like Johann Wolfgang Goethe, who preferred to place music in an ancillary function to the literary art.
Boundary breakers mostly act against their own well-being. They risk their life for a Glove or place it as Hostage into the hands of the enemy; they taunt Coachman Chronos and shake the gates of Tartarus ... Goethe and Schiller seem to feel that art’s very purpose is to document and imagine these ventures. What better allies could one have than music? Music fights oblivion, because the compositions of a Schubert and Schumann are able to accelerate, decelerate, stop, and even reverse conventional time. Song adds the entities of sensuousness to speech. In contrast to spoken language or prose, which reflect and constitute the functions of life, song moves in its own sphere. It connects music with speech; the sign system of language is infused with an essential property from the sign system of music: that of not being completely decypherable. The mystery of what lies beyond the pale thus remains permanently safeguarded.
Johannes Martin Kränzle and Hilko Dumno in search of the limits of mankind with the help of Goethe, Schiller, Schubert and Schumann.
Music seems to transcend life, to transform it by means of simple physical phenomena such as the reverberations of strings and windpipes. Tones possess their own time and pitch, which we do not completely understand although we generate them ourselves. Music transcends the constraints and contingencies of our everyday existence and is nevertheless a part of them. This is known to everyone who ever surrendered to its so called “magic” – whether composers, like Robert Schumann, who was preoccupied day in day out with the detailed mechanics of effect, or writers like Johann Wolfgang Goethe, who preferred to place music in an ancillary function to the literary art.
Boundary breakers mostly act against their own well-being. They risk their life for a Glove or place it as Hostage into the hands of the enemy; they taunt Coachman Chronos and shake the gates of Tartarus ... Goethe and Schiller seem to feel that art’s very purpose is to document and imagine these ventures. What better allies could one have than music? Music fights oblivion, because the compositions of a Schubert and Schumann are able to accelerate, decelerate, stop, and even reverse conventional time. Song adds the entities of sensuousness to speech. In contrast to spoken language or prose, which reflect and constitute the functions of life, song moves in its own sphere. It connects music with speech; the sign system of language is infused with an essential property from the sign system of music: that of not being completely decypherable. The mystery of what lies beyond the pale thus remains permanently safeguarded.
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1Lieder und Gesänge aus 'Whilhelm Meister', Op. 98Ballade des Harfners, Op. 98a, No. 205:07
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2Lieder und Gesänge aus 'Whilhelm Meister', Op. 98Wer nie sein Brot mit Tränen aß, Op 98a, No. 402:32
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3Lieder und Gesänge aus 'Whilhelm Meister', Op. 98Wer sich der Einsamkeit ergibt, Op. 98, No. 603:04
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4Lieder und Gesänge aus 'Whilhelm Meister', Op. 98An die Türen will ich schleichen, Op. 98a, No. 802:40
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5Fünf Lieder, Op. 5Der König in Thule, No. 5, D. 36703:11
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6Fünf Lieder, Op. 5Der Fischer, No. 3, D. 22502:35
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7Die Bürgschaft, D. 24617:13
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8Der Handschuh, Op. 8705:22
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9Zwei Lieder, Op. 24Gruppe aus dem Tartarus, No. 1, D. 39603:00
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10Drei Lieder, Op. 58Hektors Abschied, No. 1, D. 31204:54
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11Prometheus, D. 67405:09
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12Grenzen der Menschheit, D. 71607:21
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13Drei Lieder, Op. 19An Schwager Kronos, No. 1, D. 36902:54
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14Lieder und Gesänge für Singstimme und KlavierNachtlied, Op. 96, No. 102:27