Spectrum Lini Gong & Mariana Popova

• Paul Dessau (1894 - 1979): Tierverse:
• 1 Tierverse: Der Adler 01:23
• Ilse Fromm-Michaels (1888 - 1986): 4 winzige Wunderhornlieder, Op. 9b:
• 2 4 winzige Wunderhornlieder, Op. 9b: I. Maikäfer-Lied 02:06
• 3 4 winzige Wunderhornlieder, Op. 9b: II. Geh, du schwarze Amsel 00:58
• 4 4 winzige Wunderhornlieder, Op. 9b: III. Der Sperling 01:29
• 5 4 winzige Wunderhornlieder, Op. 9b: IV. Der Butzemann 01:09
• Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (1809 - 1847):
• 6 Neue Liebe, Op. 19a, No. 4 01:59
• Ruta Paidere (b. 1977)
• 7 Auf stillem Meer 04:01
• Theodor Kirchner (1823 - 1903):
• 8 Frühlingslied, Op. 1, No. 2 01:32
• Elmar Lampson (b. 1952): 3 Lieder nach Lieder von Christian Morgenstern:
• 9 3 Lieder nach Lieder von Christian Morgenstern: I. Vöglein Schwermut 02:23
• 10 3 Lieder nach Lieder von Christian Morgenstern: II. So möcht ich sterben 03:53
• 11 3 Lieder nach Lieder von Christian Morgenstern: III. Der Vogel 01:40
• Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel (1805 - 1847):
• 12 Warum sind denn die Rosen so blaß, Op. 1, No. 3 01:49
• Rolf Liebermann (1910 - 1999): 4 Chinesische Liebeslieder:
• 13 4 Chinesische Liebeslieder: I. Mir tat die Helligkeit der Lampe weh 01:34
• 14 4 Chinesische Liebeslieder: II. Der Strom floß 01:45
• 15 4 Chinesische Liebeslieder: III. Wenn ich an deinem Munde hingesunken 01:13
• 16 4 Chinesische Liebeslieder: IV. Die Libelle schwebt zitternd 00:45
• Gustav Mahler (1860 - 1911):
• 17 Frühlingsmorgen 01:55
• Peter Ruzicka (b. 1948):
• 18 Nach dem Lichtverzicht 01:38
• Berthold Goldschmidt (1903 - 1996): 3 Lieder, Op. 24:
• 19 3 Lieder, Op. 24: I. Der Perlenzahn 00:52
• 20 3 Lieder, Op. 24: II. Der römische Brunnen 00:44
• 21 3 Lieder, Op. 24: III. Der Schmetterling 01:56
• Johannes Brahms (1833 - 1897):
• 22 Lerchengesang, Op. 70, No. 2 01:57
• Werner Hans Hagen (b. 1944): 12 Haikus:
• 23 12 Haikus: Nos. 5, 6 & 7 03:04
• Paul Dessau:
• 24 Helle Nacht 03:01
• György Ligeti (1923 - 2006):
• 25 Der Sommer 03:09
• Paul Dessau: Tierverse:
• 26 Tierverse: Der Rabe 00:45
• Total Runtime 48:40

Info for Spectrum

For some years now, Hamburg has been reinventing itself as a city of music. The recently opened Elbphilharmonie – the spectacular concert house on the river Elbe – is one of the factors in this development. As is the KomponistenQuartier (composers' quarter) in the Neustadt district between Rödingsmarkt and St. Pauli, with no fewer than half a dozen small museums dedicated to composers such as Fanny and Felix Mendelssohn, Johannes Brahms and Gustav Mahler. All of these composers feature on this present Hamburg album, as well as a number of composers, male and female, who all wrote noteworthy miniatures for voice and piano. Mariana Popova was responsible for bringing together these 28 compositions and merging them into a dramatic entity – compositions that together result in a very personal, stylistically multi-facetted Hamburg album (including many worldwide first performances).

This is a Hamburg album by two women who have chosen Hamburg as their home: Chinese-born Lini Gong and Bulgarian-born Mariana Popova both feel a close bond with the musical life and musical history of Hamburg. As the duo explain: “We consciously bring together musical languages from three centuries and play about with contrasts and with tone colours, in fact with the entire rich spectrum of the art song genre – a genre that we love very much.”

Lini Gong, soprano
Mariana Popova, piano

Lini Gong
was born in 1981 in Zhuzhou, Hunan (China). She began her singing studies at age twelve, and studied at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music with Prof. Xiaoqun Chen, as well as at the Hamburg Conservatory (Hochschule für Musik und Theater) in the class of Prof. William Workman, and the singing class of Prof. Burkhardt Kehring. In 2007 she graduated with honours in „Lieder and Oratorio“ singing.

Since 2006 Lini Gong has been coloratura soprano solist at the Freiburg Theatre. She also appears regularly as guest artist in other European theatres. In 2009 she performed „Blondchen“ („Die Entführung aus dem Serail“, Mozart) at the Lucerne Festival and in the same year she was active as guest performer at the Stadttheater Stuttgart and at the Landestheater Linz.

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