Although highly productive and respected in his lifetime as a Lied composer, Robert Franz (1815-92) has since become a peripheral figure in music history. As they began to explore the songs of Franz, Georges Starobinski and baritone Christian Immler were moved by their findings to devise a program including twenty-three of the composer's often quite brief songs. Using the poet Heinrich Heine as their guiding star, they present these - all Heine settings but from different opus groups - in the form of two 'imagined' song cycles, framed by further settings of Heine poems by Schumann and Liszt.
19 Wandl' Ich in Dem Wald Des Abends, Op. 39, No. 4
20 Verfehlte Liebe, Op. 20, No. 3
21 Am Leuchtenden Sommermorgen, Op. 11, No. 2
22 Ich Hab' Im Traum Geweinet, Op. 25, No. 3
23 Lieb' Liebchen Legs Händchen, Op. 17, No. 3
24 Aus Meinen Großen Schmerzen, Op. 5, No. 1
25 Mit Schwarzen Segeln, Op. 18, No. 6
26 Meerfahrt, Op. 18, No. 4
27 Auf Dem Meere, 'Aus Den Himmelsaugen Droben', Op. 5, No. 3
28 Auf Dem Meere, 'Es Träumte Mir', Op. 11, No. 5
29 Auf Dem Meere, 'An Die Bretternde Schiffswand', Op. 25, No. 6
30 Auf Dem Meere, 'An Die Blaue Himmelsdecke', Op. 6, No. 3
31 Auf Dem Meere, 'Eingewiegt Von Meereswellen', Op. 9, No. 6
32 Das Meer Erstrahlt Im Sonnenschein, Op. 39, No. 3
33 Im Rhein, Im Schönen Strome, S272
34 Morgens Steh' Ich Auf Und Frage, S290
35 Anfangs Wollt' Ich Fast Verzagen, S311
36 Ein Fichtenbaum Steht Einsam, S309
37 Die Loreley, S273
Although highly productive and respected in his lifetime as a Lied composer, Robert Franz (1815-92) has since become a peripheral figure in music history. As they began to explore the songs of Franz, Georges Starobinski and baritone Christian Immler were moved by their findings to devise a program including twenty-three of the composer's often quite brief songs. Using the poet Heinrich Heine as their guiding star, they present these - all Heine settings but from different opus groups - in the form of two 'imagined' song cycles, framed by further settings of Heine poems by Schumann and Liszt.
