For some years now, Hamburg has been reinventing itself as a city of music. The recently opened Elbphilharmonie - the spectacular concert house on the river Elbe - is one of the factors in this development. As is the KomponistenQuartier (composers' quarter) in the Neustadt district between RÃ¶dingsmarkt and St. Pauli, with no fewer than half a dozen small museums dedicated to composers such as Fanny and Felix Mendelssohn, Johannes Brahms and Gustav Mahler. All of these composers feature on this present Hamburg album, as well as a number of composers, male and female, who all wrote noteworthy miniatures for voice and piano. Mariana Popova was responsible for bringing together these 28 compositions and merging them into a dramatic entity - compositions that together result in a very personal, stylistically multi-facetted Hamburg album (including many worldwide first performances). This is a Hamburg album by two women who have chosen Hamburg as their home: Chinese-born Lini Gong and Bulgarian-born Mariana Popova both feel a close bond with the musical life and musical history of Hamburg. As the duo explain: "We consciously bring together musical languages from three centuries and play about with contrasts and with tone colours, in fact with the entire rich spectrum of the art song genre - a genre that we love very much."

Tracklist:

Tierverse: No. 1, Der Adler
4 Winzige Wunderhorn Lieder, Op. 9b: No. 1, Maikäfer-Lied
4 Winzige Wunderhorn Lieder, Op. 9b: No. 2, Geh, Du Schwarze Amsel
4 Winzige Wunderhorn Lieder, Op. 9b: No. 3, Der Sperling
4 Winzige Wunderhorn Lieder, Op. 9b: No. 4, Der Butzemann
6 Gesänge, Op. 19a: No. 4, Neue Liebe, Mwv K70
Auf Stillem Meer
10 Lieder, Op. 1: No. 2, Frühlingslied
3 Lieder Nach Gedichten Von Christian Morgenstern: No. 1, Vöglein Schwermut
3 Lieder Nach Gedichten Von Christian Morgenstern: No. 2, So Möcht Ich Sterben...
3 Lieder Nach Gedichten Von Christian Morgenstern: No. 3, Der Vogel
6 Lieder, Op. 1: No. 3, Warum Sind Denn Die Rosen So Blass
Chinesische Liebeslieder: No. 1, Mir Tat Die Helligkeit Der Lampe Weh
Chinesische Liebeslieder: No. 2, Der Strom Floß
Chinesische Liebeslieder: No. 3, Wenn Ich An Deinem Munde Hingesunken
Chinesische Liebeslieder: No. 4, Die Libelle Schwebt Zitternd
Lieder Und Gesänge Aus Der Jugendzeit, Book 1: No. 1, Frühlingsmorgen
Nach Dem Lichtverzicht
3 Songs, Op. 24: No. 1, Der Perlenzahn
3 Songs, Op. 24: No. 2, Der Römische Brunnen
3 Songs, Op. 24: No. 3, Der Schmetterling
4 Gesänge, Op. 70: No. 2, Lerchengesang
12 Haikus: No. 5, Garten Und Berge - No. 6, The Larks' Song - No. 7, Gardens And Mountains
Helle Nacht
Der Sommer
Tierverse: No. 2, Der Rabe

UPC: 4260123643003
Label: Solo Musica
Release Date: 1.11.19
Format: CD

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