Five Songs
for middle voice and piano (no.4 and 5 also with harp), Opus 33, (1917)
Vergängliches' ('Transience') (1921), 'Der Wiesenbach' ('The Meadow Brook') (1917), 'Vöglein Schwermut' ('The Melancholy Bird') (1917), 'Drei Prinzessinnen' ('Three Princesses') (1917), 'Abend auf dem Fluß' ('Evening on the River') (1917)
Duration: 3', 2', 4', 3', 3''
Publisher: Simrock (1929), now Boosey & Hawkes
Available from Boosey&Hawkes: in print (M221120595)
RECORDINGS
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Continental Britons - The Émigré Composers:
Wellesz, Spinner, Goldschmidt, Gellhorn, Tauský, Gál, Seiber, Reizenstein, Rankl.
Ensemble Modern, Frankfurt
Nurit Pacht with Konstantin Lifschitz
Christian Immler with Erik Levi
Paul Silverthorne
Works by Hans Gál:
Violin Sonata op. 17
Five songs for middle voice and piano, op. 33
2 CDs: Nimbus NI 5730/1, NI 5730/2
2004
www.wyastone.co.uk |
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Modern Times
Christian Immler (baritone), Helmut Deutsch (piano)
Songs by Franz Schreker, Hans Gál, Berthold Goldschmidt, Hanns Eisler, Erich Korngold, Alexander von Zemlinsky and Wilhelm Grosz
Includes Gál Five Songs (op. 33)
C-Avi-Music 8553229 2011 |
PERFORMANCES
First performance: Steffi Goldner, Vienna, May. 1917 (Nos. 4, 5)
Other performances: Dresden, Dec. 1919 (Nos. 2, 3)
Emilie Rutschka, Vienna, Jan. 1921 (Nos. 4, 5)
Dora Schmeichler, Vienna, Mar. 1922 (Nos. 1, 3)
Maria Leixner, Vienna, Nov. 1925 (Nos. 1, 3)
Erny Alberdingk, Vienna, Mar. 1926 (Nos. 4, 5)
Jella Braun-Fernwald/Johannes Strauß, Vienna, Dec. 1929 (No. 4)
Gertrude Weinschenk, Mainz, May 1930 (Nos. 1, 4)
Margarethe Roll, Berlin Radio, Sep. 1930 (Nos. 1, 5)
Elisabeth Razmann-Stein, Eisenach, Nov. 1930 (No. 4)
Ella Firbas/Charles Cerné, Vienna, No. 1930 (Nos. 4, 5)
Elisabeth Geiße/A. König, Geisenheim, Nov. 1930
Gertrude Weinschenk, Mainz, Dec. 1930
Margret Langen, Bavarian Radio, Dec. 1931
Elisabeth Stubner, Vienna, Nov. 1934 (Nos. 1, 2, 3)
Else Hoss-Henninger, Vienna, Nov. 1935 (Nos. 1, 2, 4)
Ellen Ellis/Carl Lafite, Vienna, Feb. 1936 (Nos. 2, 4)
Kurt Pabst, Vienna, Mar. 1936 (Nos. 4, 5)
Lanka Hruschka/Vinka Karuza, Vienna, Apr. 1936 (No. 1)
Marianne Mislap-Kapper/Hans Gál, Vienna, Jun. 1937 (Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4)
Edinburgh, Mar. 1940 (Nos. 1, 2, 5)
Rita Masterton/Hans Gál, Edinburgh, Nov. 1941 (Nos. 1, 2)
Claire Born/Hans Gál, London, Jun. 1943
Mme Eisler/Hans Gál, Manchester, Apr. 1945
Marianne Mislap Kapper/Hans Gál, Edinburgh, Apr. 1945 (Nos. 2, 3, 4, 5)
Mainz, Mar. 1948
Marianne Mislap-Kapper/Norman Franklin, London, Jan. 1963 (Nos. 2, 3, 4, 5)
Francesca Green/Leon Coates, Edinburgh, Jun. 1987
Christian Immler/Erik Levi, London, Jun. 2002; Vienna, May 2003
Judy Brown/Simon Smith, Edinburgh, Mar. 2011
Hochschule für Musik und Theater, Leipzig, Oct. 2012
Timothy Nelson/Lucy Colquoun, London, Feb. 2014
Judy Brown/Sarah Beth Briggs, Aberdeen, Mar. 2016
American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Cambridge (MA), Nov. 2016 (Nos. 2, 4, 5)
Judy Brown/Sarah Beth Briggs, Edinburgh, Sep. 2018
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