Webern: Complete Songs With Piano Svetlana Savenko & Yuri Polubelov

• 1 No. 1. Vorfruhling 01:37
• 2 No. 2. Nachtgebet der Braut 02:55
• 3 No. 3. Fromm 02:10
• 4 No. 1. Tief von Fern 01:14
• 5 No. 2. Aufblick 02:29
• 6 No. 3. Blumengruss 00:53
• 7 No. 4. Bild der Liebe 01:50
• 8 No. 5. Sommerabend 02:26
• 9 No. 6. Heiter 00:56
• 10 No. 7. Der Tod 01:26
• 11 No. 8. Heimgang in der Fruhe 04:24
• Webern, Anton
• 12 No. 1. Gefunden 01:25
• 13 No. 2. Gebet 01:56
• 14 No. 3. Freunde 01:34
• Webern, Anton
• 15 No. 1. Ideale Landschaft 02:04
• 16 No. 2. Am Ufer 01:23
• 17 No. 3. Himmelfahrt 02:50
• 18 No. 4. Nachtliche Scheu 02:00
• 19 No. 5. Helle Nacht 03:18
• Webern, Anton
• 20 No. 1. Erwachen aus dem tiefsten Traumesschosse 03:10
• 21 No. 2. Kunfttag I 01:30
• 22 No. 3. Trauer I 02:04
• 23 No. 4. Das lockere Saatgefilde 01:01
• Webern, Anton
• 24 No. 1. Dies ist ein Lied 01:22
• 25 No. 2. Im Windesweben 00:33
• 26 No. 3. An Bachesranft, Im Morgentaun 01:09
• 27 No. 4. Im Morgentaun 01:12
• 28 No. 5. Kahl reckt der Baum 01:35
• Webern, Anton
• 29 No. 1. Eingang 03:22
• 30 No. 2. Noch zwingt mich Treue 01:37
• 31 No. 3. Ja Heil und Dank dir 02:02
• 32 No. 4. So ich traurig bin 00:45
• 33 No. 5. Ihr tratet zu dem Herde 01:18
• Webern, Anton
• 34 No. 1. Der Tag ist vergangen 01:30
• 35 No. 2. Die geheimnisvolle Flote 01:51
• 36 No. 3. Schien mir's, als ich sah die Sonne 01:52
• 37 No. 4. Gleich und Gleich 00:54
• Webern, Anton
• 38 No. 1. Das dunkle Herz 03:06
• 39 No. 2. Es Sturzt aus Hohen Frische 01:58
• 40 No. 3. Herr Jesus mein 02:27
• Webern, Anton
• 41 No. 1. Wie bin ich froh! 01:01
• 42 No. 2. Des Herzens Purpurvogel 01:54
• 43 No. 3. Sterne, ihr silbernen Bienen 01:33
• Total Runtime 01:19:36

Info for Webern: Complete Songs With Piano

One of Schoenberg's leading pupils and disciples, Anton Webern continued to write songs throughout his life. It is thus possible to follow his development as a composer, from early traditional writing to the more experimental work of his later years, from the tonal to the atonal, and to the sparer textures for which his work became well known.

The soprano Svetlana Savenko is a distinguished Moscow academic as well as a composer, and evidently a specialist in 20th-century and contemporary music. Certainly her survey of all the surviving songs that Anton Webern composed with piano accompaniment shows a full understanding of how Webern's music developed. Three of the cycles, to poems by a variety of the usual 19th-century German suspects, predate Webern's first encounter with Schoenberg and show the young composer getting to grips with the language of late Romanticism, everything from Schumann to Richard Strauss. It's with the five songs on poems by Richard Dehmel and four set to those of Stefan George, both written after he began to study with Schoenberg, that Webern moved towards the freely associating harmony of his first published works. That development is continued in the first songs with opus numbers, his Op 3 and 4, also using George's poems. In the Four Songs, Op 12, the style was pared down further, and by the songs of Op 23 and Op 25, both on texts by Hildegard Jone, Webern was using 12-note technique, and the clipped, aphoristic style of his late, great instrumental works. (Andrew Clements, The Guardian)

Yuri Polubelov, Piano
Svetlana Savenko, Soprano

Svetlana Savenko - Soprano
born in Moscow, graduated from the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatoire where she studied with Juri Kholopov as a musicologist. As a singer she was a student of Dora Beljavskaja. She is Professor of Russian Music at the Moscow State Conservatoire, and author of more than 100 publications (including several books) in Russian, English and German. The major fields of her specialization as a musicologist and as an interpreter are Russian music, music of the twentieth century including avant-garde and contemporary music. Her extensive repertoire includes works by Schoenberg, Berg, Webern (complete songs with pianist Yuri Polubelov), Bartók, Cage, Eisler, Hindemith, Krˇenek, Zemlinsky; those of Russian composers (Stravinsky, Prokofiev, Roslavets, Mosolov, Myaskovsky, Shillinger among others); as well as works written specially for her (such as Vladimir Tarnopolsky’s Chevengur). Savenko has performed as a soloist of Ensemble Studio New Music (Moscow), with which she has appeared in such prestigious concert halls as the Moscow Conservatoire, the Berlin Philharmonic Hall and Grosses Konzerthaus in Berlin. She has participated in many festivals in Russia and abroad, and has toured in Ukraine, Belarus, Slovakia, Germany, The Netherlands, Switzerland, Great Britain and USA.

As a Duo Svetlana Savenko and Yuri Polubelov have performed together since 1997. Their repertoire comprises more than 350 songs for voice and piano, from Stravinsky and Schoenberg to Russian composers. They have given a number of world premières, among them compositions written specially for the Duo, such as the song cycles of Valentin Silvestrov and the vocal pieces of Leonid Hofman and Alexander Knaifel. The Duo are also committed to promoting vocal repertoire under special themes, for instance “Silhouettes of the Silver Age”, “In Schoenberg’s Direction”, “Hundred Years of New Music”, “Stravinsky: Nursery and Music Hall”.

Yuri Polubelov - Piano
Born in Vitebsk, Belarus, Russian pianist Yuri Polubelov studied piano at Lvov Secondary Music School with Alexander Eidelman. He gave his first solo recital at the age of thirteen and became winner of the Ukrainian Young Musicians’ Competition in Kiev. Polubelov graduated from the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatoire (piano class of Vera Gornostayeva and chamber ensemble class of Konstantin Adjemov). Polubelov has participated in festivals in Germany, France, Italy, Slovakia, Estonia, Russia and Ukraine. He has performed both as soloist and in chamber ensembles with prominent Russian musicians such as Alexei Lubimov, Tatiana Grindenko, Ivan Monighetti, Alexander Rudin, Nelli Lee and Mark Pekarsky. He has also given premières of a number of works by contemporary Russian and Ukrainian composers and pays special attention to rarely performed works by composers such as Zemlinsky, Schoenberg, Webern, Krˇenek, Hindemith (Marienleben) and Brahms (choral works with piano). Polubelov has helped organize several festivals in Moscow and served as artistic director and pianist in stage performances of chamber operas by V. Rebikov and A. Zemlinsky in Russia and Germany.

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