Hamlet Echoes: Songs by Loeffler, Liszt, Brahms, et al. / Stella Doufexis, mezzo soprano

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Album Summary

Performers

• Daniel Heide (Piano)
• Pauline Sachse (Viola)
• Stella Doufexis (Mezzo Soprano)

Composers

• Charles Martin Loeffler (1861 - 1935)
• Dmitry Shostakovich (1906 - 1975)
• Franz Liszt (1811 - 1886)
• Christian Jost (1963 - )
• Johannes Brahms (1833 - 1897)
• Frank Bridge (1879 - 1941)

Notes & Reviews:

These recordings, all based on Shakespeare's Hamlet, feature unusual scoring with mezzo-soprano, viola, and piano. German-Greek singer Stella Doufexis studied at the Hochschule der Künste in Berlin with Professor Ingrid Figur, and participated in master classes with Aribert Reimann and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. An acclaimed recitalist, she made her debut at London's Wigmore Hall in Graham Johnson's International Songmakers series.

Notes & Reviews:

Recording information: Deutschlandradio Kultur Produktionsstätte Gärtnerstraáe (04/2011).

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Works Details

Loeffler, Charles Martin : La chanson des Ingénues (The Song of the Ingenues), for voice, viola & piano

• Performers: Daniel Heide (Piano); Pauline Sachse (Viola); Stella Doufexis (Mezzo Soprano)
• Running Time: 2 min. 12 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Form: Choral

Loeffler, Charles Martin : Harmonie du soir (Evening Harmony), for voice, viola & piano

• Performers: Stella Doufexis (Mezzo Soprano); Daniel Heide (Piano); Pauline Sachse (Viola)
• Running Time: 4 min. 47 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic

Liszt, Franz : Romance oubliée for Cello and Piano, S 132

• Performers: Pauline Sachse (Viola); Daniel Heide (Piano)
• Running Time: 3 min. 41 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Written: 1880

Liszt, Franz : Oh! pourquoi donc, song for voice & piano, S. 301a (LW N30)

• Performers: Stella Doufexis (Mezzo Soprano); Pauline Sachse (Viola); Daniel Heide (Piano)
• Running Time: 5 min. 53 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Written: 1843

Brahms, Johannes : Songs (2) for Alto, Viola and Piano, Op. 91

• Performers: Pauline Sachse (Viola); Daniel Heide (Piano); Stella Doufexis (Mezzo Soprano)
• Notes: Composition written: 1864-84.
• Running Time: 11 min. 12 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Vocal
• Written: 1864-1884

Shostakovich, Dmitri : Suite, Op. 127 :: Lied der Ophelia (Song of Ophelia)

• Performers: Pauline Sachse (Viola); Stella Doufexis (Mezzo Soprano); Daniel Heide (Piano)
• Running Time: 2 min. 54 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Written: 1967

Jost, Christian : Hamlet Echoes, for voice, viola & piano

• Performers: Daniel Heide (Piano); Stella Doufexis (Mezzo Soprano); Pauline Sachse (Viola)
• Running Time: 12 min. 52 sec.
• Period Time: Contemporary

Bridge, Frank : Far far from each other, for voice, viola & piano, H. 76/1

• Performers: Pauline Sachse (Viola); Daniel Heide (Piano); Stella Doufexis (Mezzo Soprano)
• Running Time: 3 min. 17 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Written: 1906

Bridge, Frank : Where is it that our soul doth go?, for voice, viola & piano, H. 76/2

• Performers: Stella Doufexis (Mezzo Soprano); Daniel Heide (Piano); Pauline Sachse (Viola)
• Running Time: 3 min. 17 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Written: 1906

Bridge, Frank : Music when soft voices die, for voice, viola & piano, H. 76/3

• Performers: Pauline Sachse (Viola); Daniel Heide (Piano); Stella Doufexis (Mezzo Soprano)
• Running Time: 1 min. 56 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Written: 1906-1907

Loeffler, Charles Martin : Quatre poèmes, for vioce, viola & piano, Op. 5

• Performers: Daniel Heide (Piano); Pauline Sachse (Viola); Stella Doufexis (Mezzo Soprano)
• Running Time: 20 min. 34 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Form: Vocal