557900-01 bk Mozart US 16/4/08 11:10 Page 12 Also available: MOZART 2 CDs Complete Songs Ruth Ziesak, Soprano • Lothar Odinius, Tenor Ulrich Eisenlohr, Piano With Ariane Lorch, Mandolin 8.557369-70 8.554666 Get this free download from Classicsonline! Kraus: German Songs: An mein Madchen (To My Girl), VB 87 Copy this Promotion Code NaxLMtrwne6B and go to http://www.classicsonline.com/mpkey/mgirl_main. Downloading Instructions 1 Log on to Classicsonline. If you do not have a Classicsonline account yet, please register at http://www.classicsonline.com/UserLogIn/SignUp.aspx. 2 Enter the Promotion Code mentioned above. 3 On the next screen, click on “Add to My Downloads”. 8.557900-01 12 557900-01 bk Mozart US 16/4/08 11:10 Page 2 CD 1 53:40 CD 2 43:07 Ariane Lorch 1 Sehnsucht nach dem Frühlinge, KV 596* Die Zufriedenheit: Was frag ich viel nach Born in Berlin in 1974, Ariane Lorch started mandolin lessons at the age of six, later going on (Text: Christian Adolph Overbeck) 2:34 Geld und Gut, KV 349** to study the guitar, piano, singing and conducting. She studied music education, with 2 Der Frühling, KV 597** (Johann Martin Miller) mandolin her principal subject, at the Kassel Music Academy with Gertrud Weyhofen. She (Christian Christoph Sturm) 3:02 1 1. Version with mandolin accompaniment† 2:40 has won a number of prizes in international competitions as a mandolin-player, including, in 3 Das Kinderspiel, KV 598* (Overbeck) 1:47 2 2. Version with piano accompaniment 1:43 1993, first solo prize in the Jugend musiziert, first prize in 1996 at the Fifteenth International 4 Auf die feierliche Johannisloge, KV 148** Solo Competition for Mandolin at Kuwana, in Japan, and in 1998 an award from the German (Ludwig Friedrich Lenz) 2:19 3 An die Freude, KV 53* (Johann Peter Uz) 2:57 Music Competition. As conductor of the Brandenburg-Berlin Regional Youth Orchestra she 5 Lied zur Gesellenreise, KV 468** 4 Verdankt sei es dem Glanz der Großen, KV 392** was victorious in the 2001 Giacomo Sartori Competition at Ala, in Italy, and in 2004 took (Joseph Franz von Ratschky) 2:19 (Johann Thimotheus Hermes) 2:27 third prize in the Prague International Orchestral Competition. In 2006 she was prize-winner 6 Kantate: Die Ihr des Unermeßlichen Weltalls 5 Sei du mein Trost, KV 391* (Hermes) 2:43 in the special orchestral competition of the Union of German Orchestral Federations. Since Schöpfer ehrt, KV 619** 6 Ich würd auf meinem Pfad, KV 390** 1998 she has lived and worked in North Hesse. Together with her husband, the guitarist (Franz Heinrich Ziegenhagen) 6:47 (Hermes) 1:59 Wolfgang Lorch, she has published a four-volume children’s Mandolin School and comprehensive playing material 7 Wie unglücklich bin ich nit, KV 147* 7 Die Zufriedenheit: Wie sanft, wie ruhig fühl’ for children’s plucked-string orchestra. They both appear as the Duo Lorch. (author unknown) 0:55 ich hier, KV 473* ** (Weiße) 2:54 8 Komm, liebe Zither, komm, KV 351** † 8 Die Alte, KV 517* (Friedrich von Hagedorn) 3:17 (author unknown) 2:05 9 Die kleine Spinnerin, KV 531* (author unknown) 2:17 9 Die Verschweigung, KV 518* 0 Lied beim Auszug in das Feld, KV 552** (Christian Felix Weiße) 4:13 (author unknown) 1:42 Ulrich Eisenlohr 0 An Chloë, KV 524** (Johann Georg Jacobi) 2:30 ! Der Zauberer, KV 472* (Christian Felix Weiße) 2:12 Zwei deutsche Kirchenlieder, KV 343 The pianist Ulrich Eisenlohr is the artistic leader of Naxos Deutsche Schubert Lied Edition. @ Das Lied der Trennung, KV 519** (author unknown) He studied piano with Rolf Hartmann at the conservatory of music in Heidelberg/Mannheim (Klamer Eberhard Karl Schmidt) 4:51 ! O Gottes Lamm, dein Leben* 2:02 and Lieder under Konrad Richter at Stuttgart. Specialising in the areas of song accompaniment # Franz Schubert: Luisens Antwort, D.319* @ Als aus Ägypten Israel ** 1:38 and chamber music, he began an extensive concert career with numerous instrumental and (Ludwig Theobul Kosegarten/Franz Schubert) 3:08 vocal partners in Europe, America and Japan, with appearances at the Vienna Musikverein $ Die betrogene Welt, KV 474** # Des kleinen Friedrichs Geburtstag, KV 529* and Konzerthaus, the Berlin Festival Weeks, the Kulturzentrum Gasteig in Munich, the (Christian Felix Weiße) 3:17 (Johann Eberhard Friedrich Schall) 2:19 Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Edinburgh Festival, the % Als Luise die Briefe ihres ungetreuen $ Das Veilchen, KV 476* Frankfurt Festival, the International Beethoven Festival Bonn and the Ludwigsburg Festival, Liebhabers verbrannte, KV 520* (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) 2:38 Photo © Wolfgang Detering the European Music Festival Stuttgart among many others. His Lieder partners include Hans (Gabriele von Baumberg) 1:39 % Das Traumbild, KV 530** Peter Blochwitz, Christian Elsner, Matthias Görne, Dietrich Henschel, Wolfgang Holzmair, ^ Lied der Freiheit, KV 506** (Aloys Blumenauer) 2:20 (Ludwig Heinrich Christoph Hölty) 3:56 Christoph Pregardien, Roman Trekel, Rainer Trost, Iris Vermillion, Michael Volle, Ruth & Oiseaux, si tous les ans, KV 307* ^ Abendempfindung an Laura, KV 523* Ziesak among others. Ulrich Eisenlohr has also appeared in numerous broadcast productions, (Antoine Ferrand) 1:29 (Joachim Heinrich Campe?) 4:44 live concert recordings and television tapings as well as disk and CD recordings for leading record companies, of * Dans un bois solitaire, KV 308** & Einsam bin ich, meine Liebe, KV.Anh.26** which several have been awarded major prizes, such as the German Record Critics’ Quarterly Award, a Grand Prix (Antoine Houdart de la Motte) 2:52 (Fragment, author unknown) 1:12 International from the Académie du Disque Lyrique in Paris and the Classical Internet Award. The conception and ( Josef Mysliveãek (arr. Mozart): Ridente la calma, recording of all Schubert songs is by now an important focus of his artistic work. The series is planned to be finished KV 152* (author unknown) 3:19 by 2008. Ulrich Eisenlohr has been a lecturer at the conservatories of music in Frankfurt and Karlsruhe and has conducted master-classes in Lied and chamber music in Europe and Japan, with singers such as Ruth Ziesak, Jard *Ruth Ziesak, Soprano • **Lothar Odinius, Tenor van Nes and Rudolf Piernay. He has served as accompanist for master-classes with Hans Hotter, Christa Ludwig, Elsa Cavelti, Daniel Ferro (Juilliard School, New York) and Geoffrey Parsons. Since 1982 he has taught a Lieder †Ariane Lorch, Mandolin • Ulrich Eisenlohr, Piano (all tracks except †) class at the Mannheim Conservatory of Music. 8.557900-01 211 8.557900-01 557900-01 bk Mozart US 16/4/08 11:10 Page 10 Ruth Ziesak Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) Mozart’s songs - more than marginalia? The soprano Ruth Ziesak studied in Frankfurt am Main with Elsa Cavelti and began her singing career as a member of the Heidelberg Municipal Theatre. Success in several Mozart loved song and the human voice which he used as sweeping ballads which strongly impressed and competitions quickly paved the way for an international career. After her début at the German the predominant instrument of musical expression influenced the young Schubert. Yet the period of the song Opera on the Rhine Düsseldorf/Duisburg, her operatic career led her to Munich, Stuttgart, throughout his compositional career. Vocal works – as a vehicle for the expression of the personal, the Berlin, Dresden, Milan, Florence, Vienna, Paris, London and New York, among other places. eighteen completed operas and Singspiels, fifty arias with intimate and the romantically-lyrical lay far in the future. This multifaceted artist is also a much sought-after concert soloist, collaborating with leading orchestral accompaniment as well as songs for several So why did Mozart write songs anyway? To answer orchestras in Europe, the United States and Japan. She is a frequent guest at the festivals in voices, canons, eighteen Masses including the Requiem, this question it is helpful to look more closely at the Salzburg and Lucerne, Berlin and Frankfurt, at the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival and the litanies, vespers, oratorios, cantatas and other sacred circumstances of their genesis. First of all there are the Photo © Anne Hoffmann BBC Proms. Ruth Ziesak has sung under under conductors including Herbert Blomstedt, works with voices – occupy a central place in his total external reasons; there were enquiries from music Daniele Gatti, Riccardo Muti, Kent Nagano, Riccardo Chailly, Heinz Holliger, Jun Märkl and output. It is not simply due to the fact that the easiest and publishers and almanacs (fourteen of Mozart’s songs Lothar Zagrosek and appears in song recitals throughout the world with Ulrich Eisenlohr and quickest path to fame for a composer of Mozart’s time were published in his lifetime), social events, for example Gerold Huber. was to write operas. Mozart was ambitious and Des kleinen Friedrichs Geburtstag (Little Frederick’s throughout his whole life wanted to be recognised as his Birthday), written for the hereditary Prince Friedrich von talent and the quality of his work merited. This outward Anhalt-Dessau, Lied beim Auszug in das Feld (Song drive was allied to the indispensable creative need that Upon Departure for Battle), composed on the occasion of impels every artistic genius to produce work restlessly the Turkish campaign under Emperor Joseph ll and and constantly. In a short life-span of little more than commissions and requests from friends and Lothar Odinius thirty years this resulted in one of the most astonishing acquaintances - “Pieces for Friends” as Mozart used to and most complete artistic outputs in the history of call them. Then there were works written in connection The tenor Lothar Odinius studied in Berlin and was awarded the Orpheus Prize for best vocal mankind. with his activities as a freemason - Auf die feierliche newcomer in 1995.