Melodiya Apriori 4. Liederabend (Live)


Melodiya presents recordings of Hugo Wolf’s chamber vocal music, the last of the parts from the project Melodia Apriori.

This joint project of the agency Apriori Arts and Melodiya with the support of Yamaha features recordings of four chamber concerts that took place at the Small Hall of the Moscow Conservatory in the autumn and winter of 2016 with the participation of young Russian musicians. With these albums, Melodiya resumed the format of live recording after many years, and we hope that it will make an immediate appeal to the lover of music.

The concluding concert and release of the project is dedicated to Hugo Wolf, a remarkable German composer of the late romantic era, who wrote over 300 songs during his short and tragic life. Four songbooks with lyrics by Eduard Mörike (Möricke-Lieder) composed between 1888 and 1891 are among the highest accomplishments of Wolf’s art in particular and the traditions of German romantic songwriting in general. The programme also features Richard Strauss’ popular song Morgen and piano pieces by composers of the first half of the 20th century – Alban Berg’s only sonata (it was the first opus of the future author of Wozzeck) and Paul Hindemith’s Introduction and Song (Einleitung und Lied) from his cycle of piano pieces, Op. 37.

The works by Wolf, Strauss, Berg and Hindemith are performed by Andrei Jilihovschi, a soloist of the Bolshoi Theatre of Russia, and Vadym Kholodenko, one of the most promising pianists of the new generation and winner of the Triumph Youth Prize and prizes of the Van Cliburn, Franz Schubert, Gina Bachauer and Franz Liszt competitions.

Track list

  • 1 Klaviersonate, Op. 1 (Live)
    Vadym Kholodenko, Andrei Jilihovschi (Alban Berg)
    11:54
  • 2 Mörike–Lieder, Heft I: No. 5, Der Tambour (Live)
    Vadym Kholodenko, Andrei Jilihovschi (Hugo Wolf - Eduard Mörike)
    02:34
  • 3 Mörike–Lieder, Heft IV: No. 40, Der Jäger (Live)
    Vadym Kholodenko, Andrei Jilihovschi (Hugo Wolf - Eduard Mörike)
    03:47
  • 4 Mörike–Lieder, Heft I: No. 9, Nimmersatte Liebe (Live)
    Vadym Kholodenko, Andrei Jilihovschi (Hugo Wolf - Eduard Mörike)
    03:11
  • 5 Mörike–Lieder, Heft IV: No. 50, Auftrag
    Vadym Kholodenko, Andrei Jilihovschi (Hugo Wolf - Eduard Mörike)
    01:31
  • 6 Mörike–Lieder, Heft I: No. 1, Der Genesene an die Hoffnung (Live)
    Vadym Kholodenko, Andrei Jilihovschi (Hugo Wolf - Eduard Mörike)
    04:38
  • 7 Mörike–Lieder, Heft II: No. 17, Der Gärtner (Live)
    Vadym Kholodenko, Andrei Jilihovschi (Hugo Wolf - Eduard Mörike)
    01:24
  • 8 Mörike–Lieder, Heft II: No. 15, Auf einer Wander (Live)
    Vadym Kholodenko, Andrei Jilihovschi (Hugo Wolf - Eduard Mörike)
    03:48
  • 9 Mörike–Lieder, Heft III: No. 28, Gebet
    Vadym Kholodenko, Andrei Jilihovschi (Hugo Wolf - Eduard Mörike)
    03:24
  • 10 Mörike–Lieder, Heft I: No. 12, Verborgenheit (Live)
    Vadym Kholodenko, Andrei Jilihovschi (Hugo Wolf - Eduard Mörike)
    03:46
  • 11 Klaviermusik, Op. 37, Zweiter Teil - Reihe kleiner Stücke: No. 1, Einleitung und Lied (Live)
    Vadym Kholodenko, Andrei Jilihovschi (Paul Hindemith)
    06:33
  • 12 Mörike–Lieder, Heft I: No. 10, Fussreise (Live)
    Vadym Kholodenko, Andrei Jilihovschi (Hugo Wolf - Eduard Mörike)
    02:48
  • 13 Mörike–Lieder, Heft I: No. 7, Das verlassene Mägdlein (Live)
    Vadym Kholodenko, Andrei Jilihovschi (Hugo Wolf - Eduard Mörike)
    03:58
  • 14 Mörike–Lieder, Heft III: No. 36, Lebe wohl (Live)
    Vadym Kholodenko, Andrei Jilihovschi (Hugo Wolf - Eduard Mörike)
    02:34
  • 15 Mörike–Lieder, Heft II: No. 23, Auf ein altes Bild (Live)
    Vadym Kholodenko, Andrei Jilihovschi (Hugo Wolf - Eduard Mörike)
    02:28
  • 16 Mörike–Lieder, Heft I: No. 1, Er ist’s (Live)
    Vadym Kholodenko, Andrei Jilihovschi (Hugo Wolf - Eduard Mörike)
    01:36
  • 17 Mörike–Lieder, Heft II: No. 24, In der Frühe (Live)
    Vadym Kholodenko, Andrei Jilihovschi (Hugo Wolf - Eduard Mörike)
    03:00
  • 18 Mörike–Lieder, Heft III: No. 30, Neue Liebe (Live)
    Vadym Kholodenko, Andrei Jilihovschi (Hugo Wolf - Eduard Mörike)
    03:42
  • 19 Mörike–Lieder, Heft IV: No. 46, Gesang Weyla's (Live)
    Vadym Kholodenko, Andrei Jilihovschi (Hugo Wolf - Eduard Mörike)
    02:20
  • 20 Mörike–Lieder, Heft IV: No. 44, Der Feuerreiter (Live)
    Vadym Kholodenko, Andrei Jilihovschi (Hugo Wolf - Eduard Mörike)
    05:56
  • 21 4 Lieder, Op. 27: No. 4, Morgen! (Live)
    Vadym Kholodenko, Andrei Jilihovschi (Hugo Wolf - Eduard Mörike)
    04:35
  • Total time: 01:19:27