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Five Songs

for middle voice and piano (no.4 and 5 also with harp)
Op. 3319173', 2', 4', 3', 3'

Overview

Movements

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)

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Five songs for middle voice and piano

Hidden Treasure: Hans Gál’s unpublished Lieder

BIS · BIS2543

Christian Immler (baritone); Helmut Deutsch (piano)

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  1. No.1 Vergängliches1:00

    CD 1 · Track 27

  2. No.2 Der Wiesenbach1:00

    CD 1 · Track 28

  3. No.3 Vöglein Schwermut1:00

    CD 1 · Track 29

  4. No.4 Drei Prinzessinnen1:00

    CD 1 · Track 30

  5. No.5 Abend auf dem Fluss1:00

    CD 1 · Track 31

Recordings

Continental Britons: Music by Wellesz, Spinner, Goldschmidt, Gellhorn, Tauský, Gál, Seiber, Reizenstein & Rankl.

Continental Britons: Music by Wellesz, Spinner, Goldschmidt, Gellhorn, Tauský, Gál, Seiber, Reizenstein & Rankl.

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Programme & recording details

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

Modern Times: Songs by Schreker, Gál, Goldschmidt, Eisler, Korngold, Zemlinsky & Grosz

Modern Times: Songs by Schreker, Gál, Goldschmidt, Eisler, Korngold, Zemlinsky & Grosz

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Programme & recording details

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

Eisnacht (Ice Night) — Songs by Jewish Composers

Eisnacht (Ice Night) — Songs by Jewish Composers

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Eisnacht (Ice Night)
Songs by Jewish Composers

Pia Viola Buchert, mezzo-soprano
Tatjana Dravenau, piano

GENUIN GEN26948 · 2026
Hans Gal and Egon Wellesz

Hans Gal and Egon Wellesz

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Hans Gál and Egon Wellesz: Continental Britons

Exhibition Catalogue with 2 CDS
(1) Hans Gál - Excerpts from

Violin Sonata op. 17
Five Songs, op. 33
String Quartet I, op. 16
Die Heilige Ente, op. 15
Wind Divertimento, op. 22
Serenade for String Orchestra, op. 46
Huyton Suite, op. 92
Violin Concerto op. 39
Symphony No. 2, op. 53
Symphony No. 3, op. 62
24 Preludes, op. 83
De Profundis, op. 50
24 Fugues, op. 108

(2) Egon Wellesz, excerpts from:

Vorfrühling, op. 12
Persisches Ballet, op. 30
Alkestis, op. 35
Die Bakchantinnen, op. 44
Prosperos Beschwörungen, op. 53
Mitte des Lebens, op. 45
Symphony No. 1, op. 62
Symphony No. 9, op. 111
Mirabile Mysterium, op. 101
Prelude for solo viola, op. 112

Jewish Museum Vienna
2004
www.jmw.at

Hidden Treasure: Hans Gál's unpublished Lieder

Hidden Treasure: Hans Gál's unpublished Lieder

Christian Immler (baritone); Helmut Deutsch (piano)

BIS

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Hidden Treasure: Hans Gál's unpublished Lieder
Christian Immler (baritone), Helmut Deutsch (piano)
Includes 26 unpublished lieder by Hans Gál; also the Op.33 Five Songs
Bis records
in partnership with Deutschlandfunk
BIS-2543 2020

Scores & texts

Publication & availability

Publisher
Simrock (1929), now Boosey & Hawkes
Availability
Available from Boosey&Hawkes: in print (M221120595)

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Work information is separate from the performing score.

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