Swiss Love. Der Liebe ... - Franziska Heinzen - Audio CD (Arrives in 50 days)

The cultural life of German-speaking Switzerland has been shaped on the one hand by the language they share with other German-speaking lands and their orientation to the established mechanisms of that society, on the other hand by differing emphasis on national, social and personal characteristics. Mid-nineteenth-century Swiss cities and towns still offered few opportunities for professional training and employment of a new generation of artists. The Swiss music scene was thus shaped by émigré musicians. Composers who had grown up in Switzerland like Franz Xaver Schnyder von Wartensee or Joachim Raff pursued their careers abroad;; others went to Germany for a musical education. For the rest, leading figures in musical life came from the German states. Songs by composers active in Switzerland reflect the circumstances of their time. Even before Franz Schubert, the art song (the Lied) took many different forms, varying from simple folk-like sets of verses to virtuoso opera arias in embryo. Lieder have always been a feature of domestic music-making and are sung for pleasure by music-lovers;; in the form of the choral song, the Lied exercised an important function in social interaction while also making a major contribution to a sense of national identity, and it formed an integral part of concert programmes in various genres and settings or in the emerging format of the Lieder recital. The four composers represented on this recording with a cycle or songbook all received at least some of their education in the “great canton” of Germany, orienting themselves on the German art song and hoping for good sales in German markets.

Label: Solo Musica | Origin: Holland