Settings of Rückert & Leitner: Isa Gericke, Håkan Vramsmo, Cecilia Zilliacus & Bengt Forsberg

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Isa Katharina Gericke soprano
Håkan Vramsmo baritone
Cecilia Zilliacus violin
Bengt Forsberg piano

These two poets were discovered by Schubert only late in life but inspired some of his greatest masterpieces; six settings of Rückert and one of Leitner in 1822-23, and a further ten settings of Leitner in the last year of his life. The Rückert song ‘Sei mir gegrüsst’ provides the central set of variations in the virtuosic Fantasy for violin and piano.

Programme:

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Settings of Friedrich Rückert (1788-1866): Sei mir gegrüsst!, D741 Dass sie hier gewesen!, D775 Lachen und Weinen, D777 Greisengesang, D778 Du bist die Ruh, D776   Settings of Karl Gottfried von Leitner (1800-1890): Drang in die Ferne, D770 Das Weinen, D926 Vor meiner Wiege, D927 Des Fischers Liebesglück, D933 Der Wallensteiner Lanzknecht beim Trunk, D931 Der Kreuzzug, D932 Der Winterabend, D938   Fantasy for violin & piano, D934