WUNDERHORN Dietrich Henschel

• Traditional, Gustav Mahler (1860 - 1911): Das himmlische Leben:
• 1 Traditional, Mahler: Das himmlische Leben 08:00
• Verlor’ne Müh’:
• 2 Traditional, Mahler: Verlor’ne Müh’ 02:25
• Ich ging mit Lust durch einen grünen Wald:
• 3 Traditional, Mahler: Ich ging mit Lust durch einen grünen Wald 03:21
• Starke Einbildungskraft:
• 4 Traditional, Mahler: Starke Einbildungskraft 00:57
• Aus! Aus!:
• 5 Traditional, Mahler: Aus! Aus! 01:42
• Revelge:
• 6 Traditional, Mahler: Revelge 06:17
• Der Tambourg’sell:
• 7 Traditional, Mahler: Der Tambourg’sell 05:27
• Rheinlegendchen:
• 8 Traditional, Mahler: Rheinlegendchen 02:49
• Selbstgefühl:
• 9 Traditional, Mahler: Selbstgefühl 01:30
• Wer hat dies Liedel erdacht?:
• 10 Traditional, Mahler: Wer hat dies Liedel erdacht? 01:57
• Scheiden und Meiden:
• 11 Traditional, Mahler: Scheiden und Meiden 02:04
• Der Schildwache Nachtlied:
• 12 Traditional, Mahler: Der Schildwache Nachtlied 05:06
• Das irdische Leben:
• 13 Traditional, Mahler: Das irdische Leben 02:38
• Um schlimme Kinder artig zu machen:
• 14 Traditional, Mahler: Um schlimme Kinder artig zu machen 01:44
• Des Antonius von Padua Fischpredigt:
• 15 Traditional, Mahler: Des Antonius von Padua Fischpredigt 03:55
• Ablösung im Sommer:
• 16 Traditional, Mahler: Ablösung im Sommer 01:37
• Lied des Verfolgten im Turm:
• 17 Traditional, Mahler: Lied des Verfolgten im Turm 03:58
• Nicht Wiedersehen:
• 18 Traditional, Mahler: Nicht Wiedersehen 04:56
• Es sungen drei Engel einen süssen Gesang:
• 19 Traditional, Mahler: Es sungen drei Engel einen süssen Gesang 03:32
• Zu Strassburg auf der Schanz:
• 20 Traditional, Mahler: Zu Strassburg auf der Schanz 03:55
• Trost im Ungluck:
• 21 Traditional, Mahler: Trost im Ungluck 02:21
• Wo die schönen Trompetten blasen:
• 22 Traditional, Mahler: Wo die schönen Trompetten blasen 06:15
• Lob des hohen Verstandes:
• 23 Traditional, Mahler: Lob des hohen Verstandes 02:36
• Urlicht:
• 24 Traditional, Mahler: Urlicht 05:27
• Total Runtime 01:24:29

Info for WUNDERHORN

Throughout his lifetime, Gustav Mahler's musical imagination got sparked by the Wunderhorn anthology of folk poetry compiled by Achim von Arnim and Clemens Brentano. Whether autonomous lieder or conscripted into symphonic service, Mahler’s Wunderhorn settings represent some of his most exotic, exhilarating, but also visionary music. The Wunderhorn songs evoke and celebrate a lost era but they also prefigure its demise. Mahler captures this ambiguity in uncompromisingly melodious and idyllic, but also satiric, relentless and cruel music.

In this soundtrack from the movie Wunderhorn by Clara Pons, baritone Dietrich Henschel, "a towering figure, physically, intellectually, musically and theatrically" (Herald Scotland) gives a vibrant rendition of 24 Lieder from Gustav Mahler’s Des Knaben Wunderhorn, masterly accompanied by the Bochumer Symphoniker under the baton of Steven Sloane.

Dietrich Henschel, baritone
Bochumer Symphoniker
teven Sloane, conductor

Dietrich Henschel
is a towering figure, physically, intellectually, musically and theatrically. His prowess as an interpreter, by which I mean precisely his ability to get below the surface of a song and right into its soul, is extraordinary. Herald Scotland

Baritone Dietrich Henschel captivates audiences as a regular guest at major opera houses, an esteemed interpreter of lieder and oratorios as well as with his multimedia projects. His repertoire stretches from Monteverdi to the avant-garde. Born in Berlin and having grown up in Nuremberg, he made his debut in 1990 at the Munich Biennale for New Music and first became known internationally from 1997, following a period as an ensemble member of the Opera Kiel. At the Deutsche Oper Berlin he took the title role in Hans Werner Henze’s Prinz von Homburg, staged by Götz Friedrich, and he made an outstanding lead performance in Busoni’s Doktor Faust at the Opéra de Lyon and the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, for which he was awarded a Grammy.

The singer’s major roles include Rossini’s Figaro, Wolfram in Wagner’s Tannhäuser, Monteverdi’s Ulisse and Orfeo, Mozart’s Don Giovanni, Beckmesser in Wagner’s Die Meistersingervon Nürnberg, Alban Berg’s Wozzeckand Dr. Schön in Lulu, Golaud in Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande and Nick Shadow in Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress, with which he makes regular appearances at the major European opera houses. Contemporary composers such as Péter Eötvös, Detlev Glanert, Manfred Trojahn, Unsuk Chin, Peter Ruzicka and José-Maria Sanchez-Verdu have all dedicated leading operatic roles in their operas to the baritone.

In addition to his operatic work, Dietrich Henschel is committed to the performance of lieder and concert works for voice. In orchestral concerts he has worked with conductors such as Riccardo Chailly, Kent Nagano, Sylvain Cambreling and Semyon Bychkov. His collaborations with John Eliot Gardiner, Philippe Herreweghe, Nikolaus Harnoncourt and Colin Davis is documented on numerous oratorio recordings. Dietrich Henschel has a particular focus on theatrical and multimedia presentations of vocal music. He has performed staged versions of Schubert lieder cycles at La Monnaie, Theater an der Wien, Den Norske Opera Oslo and the Komische Oper Berlin, among others. In the project IRRSAL – Triptychon einer verbotenen Liebe, featuring the orchestral songs of Hugo Wolf, he combined film and live concert; his project featuring songs by Gustav Mahler, WUNDERHORN, was also a collaboration with director Clara Pons, and was developed as a co-production between several European partners including De Doelen, La Monnaie and the BBC Symphony Orchestra London.

Last season, Dietrich Henschel presented a diverse repertoire, including a performance of Haydn’s The Creation with the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra under Kazushi Ono, and a tour with the Orchestre des Champs-Élysées under Philippe Herreweghe with orchestral songs by Hugo Wolf and Gustav Mahler. At the opening concert of the Oxford Lieder Festival he performed Mahler’s Lied von der Erde with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment; he subsequently went on to perform at the opening concert of Wien Modern, where he took the part of Jean Charles in Hans Werner Henze’s Floß der Medusa under the direction of Cornelius Meister. The new season begins at La Monnaie, where he will take the part of the Speaker in The Magic Flute staged by Romeo Castellucci. He will also reprise the title role in Peter Ruzicka’s new opera Benjamin at the State Opera Hamburg. He received critical praise for the world premiere of the work in June 2018: “Baritone Dietrich Henschel was a credible and direct Benjamin, both in terms of his acting and his immaculate vocal performance (…) a godsend for the production,” wrote the Spiegel Online. In May 2019 he will play Martin Luther in the world premiere of Bo Holten’s opera Schlagt sie tot! in Malmö. Concert engagements take him to the Suntory Hall Tokyo for a performance of Schoenberg’s Gurrelieder with the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra under Sylvain Cambreling, as well as to the Tonhalle Orchestra Zürich for the world premiere of a piece by Matthias Pintscher under Kent Nagano. At the Philharmonie Berlin he will perform Haydn’s The Seasons with the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra and Vladimir Jurowski.

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