572556 bk Cornelius EU_572556 bk Cornelius EU 23/05/2013 13:44 Page 12 Matthias Veit Peter Photo: Steffen Gottschling Matthias Veit studied piano with Gernot Kahl and voice with Susanne Korzuscheck, Peter Elkus and Tom Krause. He also attended master-classes with CORNELIUS Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Christoph Eschenbach, and Ralf Gothóni, among others. He won the 1992 Gundula Janowitz Prize at the Graz International Complete Lieder • 1 Schubert Competition. He accompanies many of the world’s leading singers, including Franz Grundheber, Angela Denoke, Tom Krause, Hanna Christina Landshamer, Soprano Schwarz and Andreas Schmidt, and has participated in international master-classes and institutes with famous artists such as Elly Ameling, Markus Schäfer, Tenor • Mathias Hausmann, Baritone Helen Donath, Silvia Geszty, Reri Grist, Cheryl Studer and Tom Krause. In 1995 he founded a Matthias Veit, Piano piano duo with Henning Lucius. He has also performed as a singer in concerts (various Lieder, oratorio and chamber opera projects) and gave his first master-classes at the Savonlinna Opera Festival in 1996. He has been official accompanist in international competitions, including the ARD Musikwettbewerb Munich. In 1998/99 he was a professor at the Hochschule für Musik, Hamburg, and since 1999 has been teaching at several music academies in Germany as well as continuing to record for television and record companies. 8.572556 12 572556 bk Cornelius EU_572556 bk Cornelius EU 23/05/2013 13:44 Page 2 Peter Mathias Hausmann CORNELIUS The young Austrian baritone Mathias Hausmann has become (1824-1874) widely recognized through a series of international television, DVD, Complete Lieder • 1 and CD productions. He is a frequent guest with leading opera houses such as Teatro alla Scala, where he was part of the prestigious opening night in 2009, and the Teatro Colón in Buenos Sechs Lieder, Op. 1 10:30 Aires, which awarded him the title Singer of the Year 2011. (Texts: Peter Cornelius) International engagements include festivals such as Salzburg, Edinburgh, and Hong Kong. He regularly performs at internationally 1 No. 1 Untreu (Unfaithful) 1:13 renowned opera houses and the leading concert halls in Europe, 2 No. 2 Veilchen (Violet) 1:17 the United States, South America, and Asia. Conductors with whom 3 No. 3 Wiegenlied (Lullaby) 2:08 he has worked include Daniel Barenboim, Riccardo Chailly, Sir 4 No. 4 Schmetterling (Butterfly) 2:00 Colin Davis, Gustavo Dudamel, Christopher Hogwood, Yannik 5 No. 5 Nachts (At Night) 2:01 Nézet-Séguin, and Hellmuth Rilling. Mathias Hausmann studied 6 No. 6 Denkst Du an mich? (Are You Thinking Of Me?) 1:51 with Karl Ernst Hoffmann in Graz, Walter Berry in Vienna, and Ryland Davies at the Royal College of Music in London. He is Trauer und Trost grateful to Thomas Hampson, from whom he has gained much (Mourning and Consolation), Op. 3 12:15 artistic guidance. (Texts: Peter Cornelius) 7 No. 1 Trauer (Mourning) 2:29 8 No. 2 Angedenken (Remembrance) 1:50 9 No. 3 Ein Ton (A Note) 1:33 0 No. 4 An den Traum (To the Dream) 1:54 ! No. 5 Treue (Fidelity) 2:12 @ No. 6 Trost (Consolation) 2:17 Brautlieder (Bridal Songs) 17:26 Photo: Wilfried Hösl (Texts: Peter Cornelius) # No. 1 Ein Myrthenreis (A Myrtle Twig) 1:51 $ No. 2 Der Liebe Lohn (Love’s Reward) 3:02 % No. 3 Vorabend (The Evening Before) 3:13 ^ No. 4 Erwachen (Am Morgen) (Awakening (in the Morning)) 2:34 & No. 5 Aus dem hohen Liede (From the Song of Songs) 2:40 * No. 6 Erfüllung (Märchenwunder) (Fulfilment (Fairy-tale miracle)) 4:05 8.572556 2 11 8.572556 572556 bk Cornelius EU_572556 bk Cornelius EU 23/05/2013 13:44 Page 10 Markus Schäfer Photo: Laurens Schäfer Markus Schäfer studied singing and An Bertha (To Bertha), Op. 15 9:46 church music in Karlsruhe and in (Texts: Peter Cornelius) Düsseldorf, winning competitions in Berlin and Milan. His operatic début was ( No. 1 Sei Mein! (Be mine!) 2:13 with Zurich Opera, followed by the ) No. 2 Wie lieb ich dich hab (How Much I Love You) 2:02 Hamburg State Opera and the ¡ No. 3 In der Ferne (Far Away) 2:57 Düsseldorf Deutsche Oper am Rhein, ™ No. 4 Dein Bildnis (Your Picture) 2:33 where he was under contract until 1993. He has made guest appearances in major Rheinische Lieder (Rhenish Songs) 9:44 opera houses and festivals, with a (Texts: Peter Cornelius) particular focus on Mozart’s great tenor £ No. 1 In der Ferne (Far Away) 3:23 rôles and as the Evangelist in Bach’s ¢ No. 2 Botschaft (Message) (Op. 5, No. 1) 1:55 Passions. He has collaborated with leading conductors in the opera house, ∞ No. 3 Am Rhein (By the Rhine) 1:49 concert hall, recording and broadcast § No. 4 Gedenken (Memory) 2:37 studios. As a renowned Lieder interpreter, Markus Schäfer has Drei Lieder, Op. 4 8:42 performed at the Schubertiade (Texts: Peter Cornelius) Schwarzenberg, at the Hugo-Wolf- ¶ No. 1 In Lust und Schmerzen (In Joy And In Pain) 2:56 Gesellschaft in Stuttgart and at the • No. 2 Komm, wir wandeln zusammen im Mondschein Wigmore Hall, London and Melbourne (Come, Let Us Stroll Out Under The Moon) 2:19 recital hall. His recordings include Lieder ª No. 3 Möcht’ im Walde mit dir geh’n by Reger and Karg-Elert. (In The Forest I’d Walk With You) 3:27 8.572556 10 3 8.572556 572556 bk Cornelius EU_572556 bk Cornelius EU 23/05/2013 13:44 Page 4 Peter Cornelius (1824-1874) Christina Landshamer Complete Songs • 1 Photo: Marco Borggreve Born in Munich, the soprano Christina Peter Cornelius, who was born in 1824 in Mainz and died Only about a dozen of Cornelius‘s works appeared in Landshamer studied there at the Hochschule für there shortly before his fiftieth birthday, saw himself as a print during his lifetime. The reservations on the part of Musik und Theater and at the Stuttgart Staatliche Poet-Musician, as an artist who could create equally valid music publishers might have had differing reasons: lack Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst. In works in word and sound. He succeeded in this better of prospective sales, insecurity in respect of the stylistic 2004 she was a prize-winner in the International than most. His literary output consists of more than 700 categorization of the composer, as well as his reticence in J.S. Bach Competition and in the Munich Große poems, three librettos, as well as numerous essays and marketing himself. Of the song cycles on this CD, Opp. 3, Förderpreis-Wettbewerb der Konzertgesellschaft. translations. As a composer, Cornelius concentrated 4 and 15 were only published years after their In 2006 she received an award at the “La Voce“ wholly on vocal music, apart from some early composition, the Brautlieder (Bridal Songs) and parts of Lieder Competition. Important highlights in her instrumental works. That he went his own way stylistically the Rheinische Lieder (Rhenish Songs) posthumously. career include concerts with the Munich in this respect is all the more astounding, because he Small wonder that Cornelius enthusiastically celebrated Philharmonic, the Ghent Collegium Vocale, the remained under the spell of personalities such as Liszt his first printed work, six songs he wrote in July 1853, Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, the NDR Radio and Wagner throughout his life. His independence is which were published by Schott barely a year later, as Philharmonic, the Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra, the documented especially in his songs, which were mostly confirmation that he was destined to be a Poet-Musician, Gewandhaus Orchestra, Leipzig, the Bavarian composed to his own texts. Therefore, the present ‘one of the lucky people who have the best of both worlds’ Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Czech complete recording closes an important gap in the of poetry and music. The sung texts were written by Philharmonic Orchestra, Prague, the Orchestre repertoire. Cornelius himself during a short stay in the Saarland, des Champs-Elysées, the Orchestre At first everything had suggested that the young where he fell in love with Leonie Schlincker, to whom the Philharmonique de Strasbourg, the Bamberg Cornelius would follow the calling of his parents and work is dedicated. ‘My song is short, needs little room’, it Symphony Orchestra and the Amsterdam become an actor. Instead he started studying music in says at the beginning of the cycle, and indeed these Concertgebouw. She can be heard on CD in Berlin after the death of his father, supported by his uncle, musical tributes take up not more than one sheet of note- Bach’s St Matthew Passion conducted by the well-known painter Peter von Cornelius. His paper for each song. There is economy in the Riccardo Chailly (Decca) and in Justin Heinrich conservative education with Siegfried Dehn could not compositions as well, with chordal accompaniment to Knecht’s Die Aeolsharfe for the Carus-Verlag erase his inclination to the music of the Neo-German support the singing, almost no interludes for the piano, label. On the cpo label she is featured in school of Liszt and Wagner, and a visit to Liszt in 1852 and a short strophic format. Cornelius is able to conjure Engelbert Humperdinck’s Dornröschen and confirmed him in this, in an artistic as well as personal up an atmosphere within a few bars of music with Franz Lehár’s Zarewitsch. aspect. Liszt gave Cornelius advice and help, and through elementary motifs, be they the ‘fragrant’ piano him he got to know the works of Berlioz and Wagner, later interjections in Veilchen, the short epilogue in the composers themselves. As a collaborator of Liszt he Schmetterling or the thin (monophonic!) accompaniment spent the following years mostly in Weimar, where his in Denkst Du an mich? (No.