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This rubric brings together all the recordings conceived around the writings of great poets and authors, set to music: Goethe, Mörike, Rimbaud, Hugo, Cervantes, Rückert, Molière, Shakespeare, Neruda, Cocteau, Kafka, Baudelaire, and many others.

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SERGEI RACHMANINOFF

The Bells Op. 35. EDWARD ELGAR Falstaff Op. 68

Vasily Petrenko, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Philharmonia Chorus, Mirjam Mesak, Pavel Petrov, Andrii Kymach
1 CD
1h13
x 1
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN

Triple Concerto op.56. Egmont, incidental music

Trio Wanderer, Gürzenich-Orchester Köln, James Conlon
1 CD
1h13
GEORGES BIZET

L'Arlésienne (orchestral suites). Symphonie in C major

Orquesta Ciudad de Granada, Josep Pons
Digital
1h04
x 1
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JOHANNES BRAHMS

Lieder op.32, 85,96 & 121 "Vier ernste Gesänge"

Matthias Goerne, Christoph Eschenbach
1 CD
0h55
x 3
JOHANNES BRAHMS

"Warum is das Licht…" : choral works opp.54, 74, 92, 104, 109, 110, 112

Cappella Amsterdam, Daniel Reuss
1 CD
1h10
x 2
BENJAMIN BRITTEN

Les Illuminations. Serenade for tenor, horn and strings. Nocturne

Andrew Staples, Christopher Parkes, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Daniel Harding
1 CD
1h14
Anthology

"The Chant of Virgil": Ancient Roman poets in Renaissance music

Huelgas-Ensemble, Paul Van Nevel
1 CD
1h05
x 3
MARC-ANTOINE CHARPENTIER

Le Malade imaginaire, music and dances for Molière's comedy

Les Arts Florissants, William Christie
2 CD
1h30
x 1
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH

Piano Quintet, Seven Romances

Trio Wanderer, Christophe Gaugué, Ekaterina Sementchuk
1 CD
0h56
x 1
CLAUDE DEBUSSY

Sonata for flute, viola and harp. Syrinx. Chansons de Bilitis. Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune

Philippe Bernold, Gérard Caussé, Isabelle Moretti, Irène Jacob, Ariane Jacob
1 CD
0h50
x 1
Anthology

"Epic". Lieder & Ballads (Schubert, Loewe, Schumann, Brahms, Liszt, Wolf)

Stéphane Degout, Simon Lepper
1 CD
1h03
x 1
GABRIEL FAURÉ

"Fauré et ses poètes" : Mélodies on poems by Baudelaire, Hugo, Gatier, Prudhomme, Verlaine, etc.

Marc Mauillon, Anne Le Bozec
1 CD
1h14
x 2
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GABRIEL FAURÉ

La Bonne Chanson. L'Horizon chimérique - Ballade...

Stéphane Degout, Alain Planès
1 CD
1h21
x 3
Anthology

Goethe-Lieder: the Eternal Feminine

Marlis Petersen, Jendrik Springer
Digital
0h58
x 1
GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL

Rinaldo, opera (London 1711)

Freiburger Barockorchester, René Jacobs
Digital
3h12
x 2
Anthology

"Invitation au voyage". Lieder, mélodies, songs by Duparc, Mahler, Vaughan Wiliams, Pizzetti

Dietrich Henschel, Fritz Schwinghammer
1 CD
1h09
x 2
ERNST KRENEK

Motets after Kafka. Five Prayers. Cantata on the Transience of Earthly Things. Choruses after Monteverdi

RIAS Kammerchor, Hans Christoph Rademann
Digital
1h14
x 1
GYÖRGY KURTÁG

Kafka-Fragmente (based on extracts from the author's diary, letters and a posthumous text)

Isabelle Faust, Anna Prohaska
1 CD
0h58
x 1
DAVID LANG

The Little Match Girl Passion

Theatre of Voices, Paul Hillier
Digital
1h05
x 2
ROLAND DE LASSUS

Il Canzoniere di Messer Francesco Petrarca

Huelgas-Ensemble, Paul Van Nevel
1 CD
0h51
x 2
ANTONIO DE LITERES

Júpiter y Semele, zarzuela after Ovid's Metamorphoses

Al Ayre Español, Eduardo López Banzo
Digital
1h38
x 2
MATTHEW LOCKE

Psyche, an English opera after Molière, Quinault & Corneille (London, 1675)

Ensemble Correspondances, Sébastien Daucé
2 CD
1h47
x 3
JEAN-BAPTISTE LULLY

Armide, opera (1686)

Collegium Vocale, La Chapelle Royale, Philippe Herreweghe
Digital
2h36
x 1
GUSTAV MAHLER

"Erinnerung". Lieder from the "Knaben Wunderhorn", Ruckert-Lieder, Das himmlische Leben

Christiane Karg, Malcom Martineau, Gustav Mahler
1 CD
1h06
x 4
FRANK MARTIN

Mass for double choir a cappella / Songs of Ariel. With Messiaen : Cinq rechants

RIAS Kammerchor, Daniel Reuss
Digital
1h06
x 4
FELIX MENDELSSOHN-BARTHOLDY

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Orchestre des Champs-Elysées, Philippe Herreweghe
1 CD
0h55
FELIX MENDELSSOHN-BARTHOLDY

A Midsummer Night's Dream (CD: melodrama version)

Max Urlacher, RIAS Kammerchor Berlin, Freiburger Barockorchester, Pablo Heras-Casado
1 CD
1h03
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Anthology

Les musiques de Molière

Les Arts Florissants, William Christie
1 CD
1h10
PABLO NERUDA

The Poet Sings

Conspirare, Craig Hella Johnson
1 SACD
1h13
FRANCIS POULENC

La Voix humaine, a phone melodrama on a text by Jean Cocteau

Felicity Lott, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Armin Jordan
1 CD
0h50
x 3
POULENC - BRITTEN

Sonata for oboe and piano. Temporal Variations. Six Metamorphoses after Ovid

François Leleux
Digital
1h16
x 1
MARCEL PROUST

"Le Concert Retrouvé": A Concert at the Ritz during the Belle Époque

Théotime Langlois de Swarte, Tanguy de Williencourt
1 CD
1h02
x 2
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HENRY PURCELL

The Fairy Queen, semi-opera after Shakespeare (1692)

Les Arts Florissants, William Christie
2 CD
2h08
x 3
Anthology

"The Rags of Time". 17th cent. English lute songs and dances

Paul Hillier, Nigel North
1 CD
1h04
x 1
MAURICE RAVEL

Piano Concertos / Mélodies

Les Siècles, François-Xavier Roth, Cédric Tiberghien, Stéphane Degout
1 CD
1h13
x 5
FRANZ SCHUBERT

Schwanengesang. Goethe-Lieder

Werner Güra, Christoph Berner
Digital
1h09
x 2
FRANZ SCHUBERT

Schwanengesang. Auf dem Strom. Die Sterne

Mark Padmore, Paul Lewis, Richard Watkins
1 CD
1h07
x 1
FRANZ SCHUBERT

Die Winterreise

Mark Padmore, Kristian Bezuidenhout
1 CD
1h09
ROBERT SCHUMANN

Dichterliebe. Liederkreis op.24

Werner Güra, Jan Schultsz
Digital
0h56
x 1
ROBERT SCHUMANN

Rückert-Lieder & cycles : Myrthen, Marie Stuart, Liederkreis

Bernarda Fink, Anthony Spiri
Digital
1h02
x 1
ROBERT & CLARA SCHUMANN

"Schöne Wiege meiner Leiden" : Lieder by Robert & Clara Schumann, Johannes Brahms

Werner Güra, Christoph Berner
Digital
0h59
x 1
Anthology

The Song of Songs in the Renaissance. Palestrina, Gombert, Lassus, Victoria

stile antico
Digital
1h17
x 4
RICHARD STRAUSS

Don Quixote Op.35. Till Eulenspiegel op.28. Romances

Jean-Guihen Queyras, Tabea Zimmermann, Gürzenich-Orchester, François-Xavier Roth
1 CD
1h04
Anthology

Victor Hugo in music. Mélodies by Fauré, Saint-Saëns, Liszt, Hahn, Lalo, Godard, etc.

Konstantin Wolff, Trung Sam
1 CD
1h04
HUGO WOLF

"Kennst du das Land?" - Lieder

Sophie Karthäuser, Eugene Asti
1 CD
1h00
x 2
HUGO WOLF

Mörike-Lieder

Werner Güra, Jan Schultsz
1 CD
1h04
x 1
HUGO WOLF

Prometheus. Orchestral songs on poems by Goethe, Mörike, etc.

Juliane Banse, Dietrich Henschel, Deutsches Sinfonie-Orchester, Kent Nagano
Digital
1h09
x 1

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