Lieder (Berg, Schumann, Wolf, Shostakovich, Brahms) Matthias Goerne & Daniil Trifonov

• Alban Berg (1885 - 1935): 4 Gesänge, Op. 2:
• 1 Berg: 4 Gesänge, Op. 2: I. Schlafen, schlafen 03:19
• 2 Berg: 4 Gesänge, Op. 2: II. Schlafend trägt man mich 01:04
• 3 Berg: 4 Gesänge, Op. 2: III. Nun ich der Riesen Stärksten überwand 00:51
• 4 Berg: 4 Gesänge, Op. 2: IV. Warm die Lüfte 02:56
• Robert Schumann (1810 - 1856): Dichterliebe, Op. 48:
• 5 Schumann: Dichterliebe, Op. 48: I. Im wunderschönen Monat Mai 01:58
• 6 Schumann: Dichterliebe, Op. 48: II. Aus meinen Tränen sprießen 01:11
• 7 Schumann: Dichterliebe, Op. 48: III. Die Rose, die Lilie, die Taube, die Sonne 00:31
• 8 Schumann: Dichterliebe, Op. 48: IV. Wenn ich in deine Augen seh' 01:38
• 9 Schumann: Dichterliebe, Op. 48: V. Ich will meine Seele tauchen 01:05
• 10 Schumann: Dichterliebe, Op. 48: VI. Im Rhein, im heiligen Strome 02:09
• 11 Schumann: Dichterliebe, Op. 48: VII. Ich grolle nicht 01:33
• 12 Schumann: Dichterliebe, Op. 48: VIII. Und wüßten's die Blumen, die kleinen 01:22
• 13 Schumann: Dichterliebe, Op. 48: IX. Das ist ein Flöten und Geigen 01:24
• 14 Schumann: Dichterliebe, Op. 48: X. Hör' ich das Liedchen klingen 02:52
• 15 Schumann: Dichterliebe, Op. 48: XI. Ein Jüngling liebt ein Mädchen 01:03
• 16 Schumann: Dichterliebe, Op. 48: XII. Am leuchtenden Sommermorgen 02:56
• 17 Schumann: Dichterliebe, Op. 48: XIII. Ich hab' im Traum geweinet 02:58
• 18 Schumann: Dichterliebe, Op. 48: XIV. Allnächtlich im Traume seh' ich dich 01:25
• 19 Schumann: Dichterliebe, Op. 48: XV. Aus alten Märchen winkt es 02:16
• 20 Schumann: Dichterliebe, Op. 48: XVI. Die alten, bösen Lieder 04:39
• Hugo Wolf (1860 - 1903): Drei Gedichte von Michelangelo:
• 21 Wolf: Drei Gedichte von Michelangelo: I. Wohl denk ich oft an mein vergangnes Leben 01:51
• 22 Wolf: Drei Gedichte von Michelangelo: II. Alles endet, was entstehet 04:31
• 23 Wolf: Drei Gedichte von Michelangelo: III. Fühlt meine Seele das ersehnte Licht 03:39
• Dmitri Shostakovich (1906 - 1975): Suite on Verses of Michelangelo Buonarroti, Op. 145:
• 24 Shostakovich: Suite on Verses of Michelangelo Buonarroti, Op. 145: VI. Dante 03:40
• 25 Shostakovich: Suite on Verses of Michelangelo Buonarroti, Op. 145: X. Death 05:49
• 26 Shostakovich: Suite on Verses of Michelangelo Buonarroti, Op. 145: IX. Night 04:35
• Johannes Brahms (1833 - 1897): 4 Ernste Gesänge, Op. 121:
• 27 Brahms: 4 Ernste Gesänge, Op. 121: I. Denn es gehet dem Menschen wie dem Vieh 04:33
• 28 Brahms: 4 Ernste Gesänge, Op. 121: II. Ich wandte mich, und sahe an alles Unrecht 03:33
• 29 Brahms: 4 Ernste Gesänge, Op. 121: III. O Tod, wie bitter bist du 04:05
• 30 Brahms: 4 Ernste Gesänge, Op. 121: IV. Wenn ich mit Menschen- und mit Engelszungen redete 04:34
• Total Runtime 01:20:00

Info for Lieder (Berg, Schumann, Wolf, Shostakovich, Brahms)

This recital was filmed live at the Berlin Philharmonie in January 2019, shortly after baritone Matthias Goerne and pianist Daniil Trifonov had recorded the same repertoire for Deutsche Grammophon. The two world-renowned artists present a programme of Lieder inspired by texts dealing with the human condition and the great mysteries of destiny and death. They open with Berg’s Vier Gesänge Op. 2, four short evocations of sleep and the infinite universe of dreams. These are followed by one of the pinnacles of Romanticism, Schumann’s Dichterliebe – a cycle of sixteen songs which unfold like an uninterrupted soliloquy, but one full of contrasting states of mind. Next come Wolf’s Michelangelo-Lieder, three reflections on the nature of time, mortality and love written just months before the composer’s final descent into madness. Shostakovich too was inspired by the poetry of Michelangelo and Goerne and Trifonov include three songs from his austere and moving Suite on Verses of Michelangelo Buonarroti. The recital ends with Brahms’s Vier ernste Gesänge, a beautiful late work setting texts from Luther’s translation of the Bible.

Matthias Goerne & Daniil Trifonov – Lieder completes the baritone’s trilogy of recordings with three of DG’s outstanding young pianists. It follows on from his album of Beethoven Lieder with Jan Lisiecki, and Im Abendrot (“At Sunset”), an anthology of Lieder by Wagner, Pfitzner and Richard Strauss recorded with Seong-Jin Cho.

Matthias Goerne, baritone
Daniil Trifonov, piano

Matthias Goerne
is one of the most versatile and internationally sought-after vocalists and a frequent guest at renowned festivals and concert halls. He has collaborated with the world’s leading orchestras, conductors and pianists. Born in Weimar, he studied with Hans-Joachim Beyer in Leipzig, and later with Elisabeth Schwarzkopf and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau.

Matthias Goerne has appeared on the world’s principal opera stages including the Metropolitan Opera in New York, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Teatro Real in Madrid, Paris National Opera, and the Vienna State Opera. His roles range from Wolfram, Amfortas, Wotan, Orest, and Jochanaan to the title roles in Béla Bartók’s Duke Bluebeard’s Castle and Alban Berg’s Wozzeck.

Goerne’s artistry has been documented on numerous recordings, many of which have received prestigious awards, including four Grammy nominations, an ICMA Award, a Gramophone Award, the BBC Music Magazine Vocal Award 2017, and a Diapason d’or arte. After his legendary recordings with Vladimir Ashkenazy and Alfred Brendel for Universal Music, he recorded a series of selected Schubert songs on 12 CDs for harmonia mundi (The Goerne/Schubert Edition) with eminent pianists. His latest recordings of Brahms songs with Christoph Eschenbach, of Schumann songs with Markus Hinterhäuser, of Mahler songs with the BBC Symphony, and of Wagner arias with the Swedish Radio Symphony have received rave reviews.

In addition to his residency with the New York Philharmonic further highlights of the 2018/19 season include concerts with other top orchestras in the U.S. (Pittsburgh, Houston, Los Angeles), Europe and Japan. Furthermore, Mr. Goerne appears as Kurwenal (Tristan) at the Paris National Opera. Song recitals with Daniil Trifonov, Leif Ove Andsnes and Sir Antonio Pappano will lead him to the Philharmonie in Berlin, Philharmonie de Paris, Wigmore Hall in London, Palau de la Música in Barcelona and other major European venues. Last but not least Goerne will be guest at the 2019 summer festivals in Ravinia, Salzburg and Verbier.

Daniil Trifonov
Grammy Award-winning pianist Daniil Trifonov (dan-EEL TREE-fon-ov) – Musical America’s 2019 Artist of the Year – has made a spectacular ascent of the classical music world, as a solo artist, champion of the concerto repertoire, chamber and vocal collaborator, and composer. Combining consummate technique with rare sensitivity and depth, his performances are a perpetual source of awe. “He has everything and more … tenderness and also the demonic element. I never heard anything like that,” marveled pianist Martha Argerich. With Transcendental, the Liszt collection that marked his third title as an exclusive Deutsche Grammophon artist, Trifonov won the Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Solo Album of 2018. As The Times of London notes, he is “without question the most astounding pianist of our age.”

In October of 2021, Trifonov released Bach: The Art of Life on Deutsche Grammophon, including The Art of Fugue with the pianist’s own completion of the final contrapunctus, selections from the Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach, music by four of Johann Sebastian’s sons, two pieces known to have been Bach family favorites, and more. He toured a recital program in the 2021-22 season centered on The Art of Fugue in Europe, and a second program in the U.S. of Prokofiev, Szymanowski, Debussy and Brahms. Brahms’s First Piano Concerto served as the vehicle for appearances with the Dallas Symphony led by Fabio Luisi and Philharmonia Zurich under the direction of Gianandrea Noseda, and with Rome’s Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia led by Antonio Pappano he performs Mozart’s Ninth “Jeunehomme” Piano Concerto on a European tour. He also performed all five of Beethoven’s Piano Concertos in various combinations with eight different orchestras: the New York Philharmonic, Cincinnati Symphony, New Jersey Symphony, Munich Philharmonic, Mariinsky Orchestra, Orchestre des Champs-Élysées, Budapest Festival Orchestra and Toronto Symphony. Balancing out these staples of the repertoire, Trifonov gave the world premiere performances of Mason Bates’s new Piano Concerto, composed for him during the pandemic, with the co-commissioning Philadelphia Orchestra and Yannick Nézet-Séguin, before reprising the piece in the spring with the New Jersey Symphony, Israel Philharmonic, and the other co-commissioner, the San Francisco Symphony.

Highlights of recent seasons include a multi-faceted, season-long tenure as 2019-20 Artist-in-Residence of the New York Philharmonic under Jaap van Zweden, featuring the New York premiere of Trifonov’s own Piano Quintet, and a seven-concert, season-long Carnegie Hall “Perspectives” series, crowned by a performance of the pianist’s own Piano Concerto with Valery Gergiev and the Mariinsky Orchestra. Trifonov played Tchaikovsky’s First under Riccardo Muti in the historic gala finale of the Chicago Symphony’s 125th-anniversary celebrations; launched the New York Philharmonic’s 2018-19 season; headlined complete Rachmaninoff concerto cycles at the New York Philharmonic’s Rachmaninoff Festival and with London’s Philharmonia Orchestra and the Munich Philharmonic; undertook season-long residencies with the Berlin Philharmonic and at Vienna’s Musikverein, where he appeared with the Vienna Philharmonic and gave the Austrian premiere of his own Piano Concerto; and headlined the Berlin Philharmonic’s famous New Year’s Eve concert under Sir Simon Rattle. Since making solo recital debuts at Carnegie Hall, London’s Wigmore Hall, Vienna’s Musikverein, Japan’s Suntory Hall, and Paris’s Salle Pleyel in 2012-13, Trifonov has given solo recitals at venues including the Kennedy Center in Washington DC; Boston’s Celebrity Series; London’s Barbican, Royal Festival and Queen Elizabeth Halls; Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw (Master Piano Series); Berlin’s Philharmonie; Munich’s Herkulessaal; Bavaria’s Schloss Elmau; Zurich’s Tonhalle; the Lucerne Piano Festival; the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, the Théâtre des Champs Élysées and Auditorium du Louvre in Paris; Barcelona’s Palau de la Música; Tokyo’s Opera City; the Seoul Arts Center; and Melbourne’s Recital Centre.

Fall 2020 brought the release of Silver Age, an album of Russian solo and orchestral piano music by Scriabin, Prokofiev and Stravinsky, recorded with Gergiev and the Mariinsky Orchestra. This followed 2019’s Destination Rachmaninov: Arrival, for which Trifonov received a 2021 Grammy nomination. Presenting the composer’s First and Third Concertos, Arrival represents the third volume of the Deutsche Grammophon series he recorded with the Philadelphia Orchestra and Nézet-Séguin, following Destination Rachmaninov: Departure, named BBC Music’s 2019 Concerto Recording of the Year, and Rachmaninov: Variations, a 2015 Grammy nominee. Deutsche Grammophon has also issued Chopin Evocations, which pairs the composer’s works with those by the 20th-century composers he influenced, and Trifonov: The Carnegie Recital, the pianist’s first recording as an exclusive Deutsche Grammophon artist, which captured Trifonov’s sold-out 2013 Carnegie Hall recital debut live and scored him his first Grammy nomination.

It was during the 2010-11 season that Trifonov won medals at three of the music world’s most prestigious competitions, taking Third Prize in Warsaw’s Chopin Competition, First Prize in Tel Aviv’s Rubinstein Competition, and both First Prize and Grand Prix – an additional honor bestowed on the best overall competitor in any category – in Moscow’s Tchaikovsky Competition. In 2013 he was awarded the prestigious Franco Abbiati Prize for Best Instrumental Soloist by Italy’s foremost music critics, in 2016 he was named Gramophone’s Artist of the Year and in 2021 he was made a “Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres” by the French government.

Born in Nizhny Novgorod in 1991, Trifonov began his musical training at the age of five, and went on to attend Moscow’s Gnessin School of Music as a student of Tatiana Zelikman, before pursuing his piano studies with Sergei Babayan at the Cleveland Institute of Music. He has also studied composition, and continues to write for piano, chamber ensemble, and orchestra. When he premiered his own Piano Concerto, the Cleveland Plain Dealer marveled: “Even having seen it, one cannot quite believe it. Such is the artistry of pianist-composer Daniil Trifonov.”

Booklet for Lieder (Berg, Schumann, Wolf, Shostakovich, Brahms)