The Guitare d'amour in Romanticism. Franz Schubert's so-called "Arpeggione Sonata" owes it's peculiar name to a long-forgotten string instrument that was usually referred to in Vienna in the 1820s as the "bowed guitar" or "guitar-violoncello". It was an invention of the Viennese instrument maker Georg Stauffer and was quite popular for about a decade. After that, it disappeared into the annals of history. If Schubert had not dedicated his famous sonata to the instrument, the arpeggione would have been long forgotten. But this way, the memory of the instrument was kept alive. To complement the great "Arpeggione Sonata", soloist Lorenz Duftschmid has recorded five Schubert songs in instrumental versions (the poems in question are recited before the instrumental version in each case) as well as three nocturnes by an almost forgotten Romantic from the Rhineland: Friedrich BurgmÃ¼ller. His "Trois Nocturnes", available in various versions, sound most beautiful and full of emotion on arpeggione and guitar, the two instruments so closely related.

Tracklist:

Arpeggione Sonata In A Minor, D. 821: I. Allegro Moderato
Arpeggione Sonata In A Minor, D. 821: II. Adagio
Arpeggione Sonata In A Minor, D. 821: III. Allegretto
Hymne An Die Jungfrau
Ellens Gesang III, Hymne An Die Jungfrau, Op. 52 No. 6, D. 839 "Ave Maria" (Arr. For Arpeggione & Piano)
Ständchen
13 Lieder Nach Gedichten Von Rellstab Und Heine, D. 957 "Schwanengesang": No. 4, Ständchen (Arr. For Arpeggione &
Gute Nacht
Winterreise, Op. 89, D. 911: No. 1, Gute Nacht (Arr. For Arpeggione & Piano)
Der Tod Und Das Mädchen
Der Tod Und Das Mädchen, Op. 7 No. 3, D. 531 (Arr. For Arpeggione & Piano)
Gefrorne Tränen
Winterreise, Op. 89, D. 911: No. 3, Gefrorne Tränen (Arr. For Arpeggione & Piano)
3 Nocturnes For Cello & Guitar (Arr. For Arpeggione & Guitar): No. 1, Andantino
3 Nocturnes For Cello & Guitar (Arr. For Arpeggione & Guitar): No. 2, Adagio Cantabile
3 Nocturnes For Cello & Guitar (Arr. For Arpeggione & Guitar): No. 3, Allegro Moderato

UPC: 761203544622
Label: Cpo Records
Release Date: 10.21.22
Format: CD

Burgmuller / Schubert / Lorenz Duftschmid - Burgmuller & Schubert: Works For Arpeggione (CD)