FrÃ¼hling is also a project that decisively sheds light on the figure of AndrÃ©s Isasi (1890-1940), one of the most singular and underrepresented composers of early 20th-century Spain. At the heart of the album, Goikoetxea and FernÃ¡ndez Aguirre offer the world-premiere recording of the complete Lieder-Album op. 16, a cycle composed in Berlin in 1913 and virtually unknown until today. These fourteen songs reveal a cosmopolitan Isasi at a moment of full creative maturity, shaped by his Central European training with Engelbert Humperdinck and attuned to the late-Romantic and Jugendstil currents of his time. The cycle blends intimate lyricism, legendary evocations, decadent impulses, and a refined harmonic language of striking modernity. Works such as Ali Bey, FrÃ¼hling, Die ungetreue Luise, or Vergiftet sind meine Lieder display a uniquely personal voice that bridges the German Lied tradition with Basque imagery and an advanced European sensibility that was unusual for it's time. Goikoetxea and FernÃ¡ndez Aguirre stand out for their elegance, their textual insight, and their ability to convey the emotional universe-at times naÃ¯ve, at times shadowed, always intensely poetic-of a composer whose vocal output was long overdue for a first-rate artistic rediscovery. The programme is framed within a broader exploration of Heinrich Heine's profound impact on European music. The album is completed with lieder by Liszt, Grieg, Ives, Rubinstein, Boulanger, Backer-Grondahl, MacDowell, Sgambatti, and Castelnuovo-Tedesco, composers who, like Isasi, were captivated by the emotional depth and symbolic power of the German poet.

Tracklist:

Im Rhein, Im SchÃ¶nen Strome
FrÃ¼hlingslied
Loreley
Du Bist Wie Eine Blume
GruÃŸ
Lieder Album-Ali Bei
Lieder Album-Lass Ab!
Lieder Album-FrÃ¼hling
Lieder Album-Die Ungetreue Luise
Lieder Album-In Deiner NÃ¤he
Lieder Album-An Sie
Lieder Album-Liedchen
Lieder Album-Vergiftet Sind Meine Lieder
Lieder Album-Es War Ein Alter KÃ¶nig
Lieder Album-Der PhÃ¶nix
Lieder Album-Sie Tantz
Lieder Album-Gott Weiss FÃœR Wen Es SCHLÃ„GT
Lieder Album-Kommt Zu Mir!
Lieder Album-Die Rose, Die Lilie, Die Taube, Die Sonne
Songs (7) for Voice ; Piano, Op. 4-Sie Liebten Sich Beide
Du Liebst Mich Nicht
Ich Grolle Nicht
Heine Lieder (3), for Voice ; Piano, Op. 40-Am Teetisch
Was Will Die Einsame ThrÃ¤ne?

UPC: 8436597701136
Label: Ibs Classical
Release Date: 5.8.26
Format: CD

Vanessa Goikoetxea - Fruhling: Isasi Lieder (CD)